Netflix’s latest true crime offering is mercifully snappy at a feature-length 94 minutes compared to the streamer’s usual eight-part miniseries fare, but it still proves the genre is skating on thin ice.

Consumers’ obsession with serial killers, sparked by David Fincher’s Zodiac and compounded by podcasts and documentaries galore, is smartly observed by first-time filmmaker Anna Kendrick, exploring a real-life instance of Rodney Alcala’s appearance on the popular game show The…