Devil's Knot (2014)

Reese Witherspoon & Colin Firth star in this film concerning the murder of the children in Robin Hood Hills and the following trials of the "West Memphis Three."

This put me in mind of All Good Things, which was a fictionalization of the events covered in the brilliant documentary The Jinx. Just as with that film, I've seen the documentaries (Paradise Lost & West of Memphis) about this crime and those accused of it, which makes it difficult to judge this movie on its own. There's just no compelling reason for it to exist. If you want to know how things went down, you needn't bother with this when there are better sources readily available.

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