‘Dead Man’s Wire’ faithfully recreates a TV hostage standoff but avoids the messy why

Gus Van Sant continues the mass-media-meets-violence conversation of 'To Die For,' but doesn't have much to say about this ...
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Dead Man's Wire movie clip - Open with That

Dead Man's Wire Movie Clip - Open With That - US Release Date 9, 2026 Starring: Al Pacino, Bill Skarsgård, Colman Domingo, ...
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The 1970s hostage story of 'Dead Man's Wire' speaks across the decades

Gus Van Sant's police thriller Dead Man's Wire is a true-crime dramatization of a 1977 hostage incident in Indianapolis.

'Dead Man's Wire' has more than a whiff of 'Dog Day Afternoon'

The film’s strongest sequences resemble 1970s thrillers such as Sidney Lumet’s “Dog Day Afternoon,” in which Pacino — his casting can’t have been a coincidence — plays a similarly tormented antihero.
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‘Dead Man’s Wire’ Review: Gus Van Sant’s Burn-It-All-Down Crime Film Has Sympathy for the Kidnapper

Bill Skarsgård stars as an aggrieved antihero who takes his mortgage broker hostage in a pleasingly punchy ‘70s throwback that struggles to maintain momentum. “Exploded” can be taken literally here, ...
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‘Dead Man’s Wire’ Review: Gus Van Sant and Bill Skarsgård Turn a Freak Hostage Incident from 1977 Into a Miniature ‘Dog Day Afternoon’

The movie totally plays in a hair-trigger way, yet one can question how Van Sant has tweaked the facts. Over time, awareness of this very 1970s incident fell by the wayside, but in 2022 Jon Hamm ...