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13th May 2019
02:00pm BST
"Years after the shocking murders that made the name Charles Manson synonymous with pure evil, the three women who killed for him - Leslie Van Houten (Hannah Murray), Patricia Krenwinkel (Sosie Bacon), and Susan Atkins (Marianne Rendón) - remain under the spell of the infamous cult leader (Matt Smith).
"Confined to an isolated cellblock in a California penitentiary, the trio seem destined to live out the rest of their lives under the delusion that their crimes were part of a cosmic plan - until empathetic graduate student Karlene Faith (Merritt Wever) is enlisted to rehabilitate them."Charlie Says has just been released in the US and reviews have so far been mixed. There has been praise for Smith's performance as the charming but ultimately deranged Manson but questions have been raised about the way the women in the film are portrayed. The Guardian said that the film reduces their "full adult responsibility" for their gruesome crimes, which "infantilises them and actually makes them less interesting." On the other hand, Rolling Stone praises the director for "giving voices to women who sometimes don’t get heard, or have it drowned out by the din around them".
#CharlieSays looks like a fucking masterpiece and I don’t think I’ve ever been so excited for a true crime movie
— m a q ? (@mvadrix) May 11, 2019
CHARLIE SAYS, Mary Harron's movie about the Manson girls in theaters this week, does a much better job at portraying the women in the lives of violent men than EXTREMELY WICKED, SHOCKINGLY EVIL, AND ViLE https://t.co/Z5LxdfhnfY
— Anne Cohen (@anneesthercohen) May 8, 2019
Instead of watching the Bundy fetid on Netflix, make time to see CHARLIE SAYS next Friday. All-female production that understands the need to focus on the women at the center and does it amazingly.
— Kristen Lopez (@Journeys_Film) May 4, 2019
We don't yet have a release date for Charlie Says in this part of the world - fingers crossed that it's soon.CHARLIE SAYS isn’t perfect, but it’s the superior of the two serial killer films out right now. Still thinking about how great it is and how annoyed I am for ever being more excited about the Bundy film. Let women do it all. We do it better.
— Jamie Righetti (@JamieRighetti) May 11, 2019
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