‘A Talent For Murder’ Review: Helen Mirren Is Mesmerizing As Tortured Genius Crime Writer Patricia Highsmith – Toronto Film Festival

Source: deadline.com · Section: entertainment-sports · Bias: Center · Published: Wed, 16 Sep 2026 01:09:28 GMT

This flawed but very entertaining two-hander belongs in the unique subgenre of literary biographies in which a cult author’s life is investigated through the highly specific prism of their work. Shirley Jackson, for example, was cast into a dark Gothic psychodrama in Josephine Decker’s Shirley; William S. Burroughs became a drug-addicted spy who reports to […]

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