Think Harry Melling is the best thing here, followed closely by Gillian Anderson who seems to be having a wonderful time. The production’s impressive too. Shame about the story.
★★½
A seasoned detective investigates a series of murders at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point in 1830. He is assisted in his investigation by an intelligent and eager young cadet named Edgar Allan Poe, who will go on to become one of America's most influential authors and the originator of the detective genre.