I reviewed A Talent for Murder at Slant Magazine:

Anton Corbijn’s A Talent for Murder, a fictional story that vividly captures the psychology of Patricia Highsmith (Helen Mirren), is the rare successful film about a writer. At the start, Highsmith is feeling gloomy and blocked, staring at a blank sheet of paper in her typewriter carriage. That is, until book editor Edward Ridgeway (Alden Ehrenreich) appears at her door, begging her to start writing again. From there, the film slices away at the usual biopic folderol to unveil the dark linkages between the writer and her most famous creation…

A Talent for Murder opens next Friday. Here’s the trailer: