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  Review by Corwyn ★★★½ 1

  "Do you know why I did it?"

  "Because you wanted to."

  Francois Truffaut famously said that it's impossible to make an anti-war war movie, because the act of depicting it always inadvertently ends up glorifying it; that which is supposed to horrify, instead titillates. One begins to suspect that the same may be true of Ted Bundy films. And if the industry maintains its current trajectory, the latter sub-genre may soon become more numerous than the former.

  This movie doesn't quite avoid the trap of mythologizing Bundy, nor does it fully attempt to. Especially early on, it leans pretty hard into the image of Bundy-as-genius-mastermind. As some remarkable, impenetrable, 5D-chess-playing mind, an egg which no mere mortal could hope to…

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  Review by Rafael "Parker!!" Jovine ★★★½ 15

  When it comes to Ted Bundy, prolific monsters like him have had so much material written and filmed around them that it's difficult to come up with fresh films that explore anything new. But this film succeeds to achieve that, albeit not until the end.

  I remember going to church camps and reading books about the Dobson interview and how they utilized this thirst for pornography as a cautionary tale for others who struggled with it, meaning that if you went down this route and stayed in pornography, you could basically become Bundy or something. Knowing more about Ted and his personality, it is clear from this film that it was all a fiction, a lie to save his own…

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  Review by joaquin "the 3.5 stars guy" zanzio ★★★½

  tight, well shot, well writen, well acted drama with some solid editing and performances, i'm sad that not alot of people will see it because i think it's actually quite interesting, a couple of nitpicks here and there and it can be argued that overall it's not that special but this is still a solid film, i recommend it
  elijah wood and his diverse career, gotta love the guy

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  Review by claira curtis ★★★★ 5

  Amber Sealey’s No Man of God is overripe with a sense of brutality. That moment when you double over after a hard punch to the gut. That first ragged, empty breath after the wind is knocked out of you. Tense, almost rigid in its horrors, depicted through an autopsy of interviews, each one splaying its two participants open wider. 

  Elijah Wood and Luke Kirby play a game of ping pong where no one is having any fun. The two ricochet off of each other. First, at an almost playful, leisurely pace, then, as the years progress, the two draw nearer to one another, the speed increases, the desperation all the more potent. The finale, occurring 20 minutes before the credits…

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  Review by Chris Evangelista ★★★ 1

  I know everyone is sick of Ted Bundy movies, but this isn't nearly as bad as I was lead to believe. Luke Kirby is particularly great, completely nailing both Bundy's look and voice.

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  Review by Mister Cap ★★★½ 6

  Ted Bundy war in den letzten Jahren Gegenstand einer Reihe von Filmen, Serien und mehrteiligen Dokumentationen. Um den Film hier uneingeschränkt "genießen" zu können, ist es notwendig, den Fall Bundy zu kennen. Ich kann diesbezüglich nur die mehrteile Netflix Dokumentation "Ted Bundy: Selbstporträt eines Serienmörders" empfehlen.

  „No Man of God“ ist also ein weiterer Film, der sich um den berühmten Serienkiller dreht und der auf Interviews zwischen Bundy und dem FBI-Agenten Bill Hagmaier basiert. Der Film ist gut gemacht, hat ein hervorragendes Drehbuch und alle Schauspieler sind wirklich ausgezeichnet. Mir hat besonders die tolle Chemie zwischen Luke Kirby und Elijah Wood gefallen, die beide ihren Charakteren wirklich gerecht werden.

  "No Man of God" spielt fast nur in einem Raum, ist aber trotzdem ein dichter, spannender und faszinierender Film. Bis auf ein paar Kleinigkeiten gibt es für mich nicht viel zu meckern und ich kann den Film nur weiterempfehlen.

  Fazit:

  Burn Bundy Burn

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  Review by WraithApe ★★★½ 4

  It's got to the point now where Elijah Wood's name attached to a new project generates an instant buzz. Since hanging up his hobbit's cloak, he's made consistently interesting career choices and his obvious love for genre has earned him a lot of good will among fans I think. He was originally only going to produce No Man of God but was apparently so fascinated by FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier's story that he wanted to play the role himself. It must have been invaluable to have Hagmaier himself on board as an executive producer who, by all accounts, always made himself available to cast and crew.

  It's well researched. For someone like myself who's watched more than their fair share…

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  Review by Allison M. 🌱 ★½ 5

  Tribeca Film Festival

  It’s irregular as hell, but yeah, it’s legal.

  The movie sets out to prove that Bill Hagmaier (Elijah Wood) is one of the greatest criminal profilers in the world. Unfortunately, from start to finish, the film has a hard time proving its thesis. Hagmaier volunteers to deal with the criminal Ted Bundy (Luke Kirby) since he isn’t willing to talk to the feds. Kirby does a fine job of portraying Bundy and even bears a slight resemblance. However, Bundy opens up to Hagmaier and I just wondered why the whole entire time. Joe Berlinger recently gave us our Bundy biopic: Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile in 2019. With Zac Efron in the title role and Berlinger…

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  Review by Nolan Barth ★★★★ 1

  There’s this one actress (I have no idea what her name is because she’s uncredited) who plays a random silent crew member during one of Bundy’s interviews. She might have one of my favorite performances of this year? She shows us fascination, guilt, disgust and fear in like only 30 seconds of screen time.

  Give her an Oscar. Please.

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  Review by STEVEN 👻 ★★★★½

  Ted Bundy seems to be one of the biggest true crime interests currently, and No Man of God is by far the best out of three recent projects I've seen about him. Luke Kirby genuinely unnerved me with his performance as the serial killer and Elijah Wood's ability to bounce the dialogue back and forth was unlike anything I've experienced before. I appreciate how this did something different and handled the case with care, working as a character study on both sides. An amazing directorial accomplishment on Amber Sealey's part, and one that I hope Joe Berlinger's remarks doesn't tarnish.

  2021 RANKED

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  Review by Dave Taylor ★★★½

  I get it…filming two people in a room together for long stretches doesn’t sound visually stimulating, and maybe that’s ok if the alternative is whatever Director Amber Sealey is doing here. Wood and Kirby are mesmerizing (at least when their acting can keep up with their ambition), so really she just needed to point the camera in their direction and yell ‘action.’ But she didn’t. And it was distracting.

  Also, the dreamy interstitial things…not necessary.

  But seriously, that back and forth between Kirby and Wood? I could have watched that for hours!

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  Review by B E R T ★★

  What a snoozefest this was. I think movies about Ted Bundy have been done to death now, let it go, unless you’re gonna do something that hasn’t been done before don’t even bother. It’s got good performances and there’s been care taken in the making of it but it’s just so damn boring and dull. When you’ve got a show like Mindhunter what’s the point to of a movie like this?