Furman's movie lacks the craft or the confidence to address the unresolved questions of institutional cancer.

City of Lies is more James Ellroy than docudrama, resulting in a tired police thriller that hitched its wagon to an untenable star.

As a thriller, it never quite reaches its boiling point, which may be one reason it's been sitting on the shelf since 2018. But as the portrait of a man obsessed and the forces stacked up against him, it earns its stripes.

A complex tale about a still-unsolved homicide.