2023 · mystery · comedy · music
Maggie Moore(s)
Directed by John Slattery1h 39m2023
Bizarre back-to-back murders in an otherwise quiet Arizona desert town has rattled local Police Chief Jordan Sanders. The two dead women have no connection to each other – except they’re both named Maggie Moore. While unravelling a web of small-town lies and mysteries, the investigation gets even more complicated when Sanders begins a romantic relationship with one of the murdered women's neighbor, Rita.
Our read: Maggie Moore(s) (2023) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded mystery · comedy · music entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured mystery / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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