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The Pale Blue Eye (Netflix, 2022)

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Oene Kummer
Jan 08, 2023
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The Pale Blue Eye is a dark and moody thriller, starring Christian Bale as a world-weary detective trying to solve a case with the help of a young Edgar Allan Poe.

The Pale Blue Eye is based on a book by Louis Bayard and written for the screen and directed by Scott Cooper, who also made the movie Crazy Heart (2009), that finally won Jeff Bridges an Oscar.

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