West Point, 1830. In the early hours of a gray winter morning, a cadet is found dead. But after the body arrives at the morgue, tragedy becomes savagery when it’s discovered that the young man’s heart has been skillfully removed. Fearing irreparable damage to the fledgling military academy, its leaders turn to a local detective, Augustus Landor (Christian Bale), to solve the murder. Stymied by the cadets’ code of silence, Landor enlists the help of one of their own to pursue the case, an eccentric cadet with a disdain for the rigors of the military and a penchant for poetry — a young man named Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling).

Based on the novel by Louis Bayard, THE PALE BLUE EYE is directed by Scott Cooper (CRAZY HEART, ANTLERS) and stars an acclaimed supporting cast, including Gillian Anderson, Lucy Boynton, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Toby Jones, Harry Lawtey, Simon McBurney, Hadley Robinson, Timothy Spall and Robert Duvall.

“Christian Bale anchors this stolid, darkly beautiful period crime procedural about a series of grisly murders at the pre-Civil War United States Military Academy.” (The Film Yap)

“The way the story plays out, though, is enthralling and I did not see the final big twist coming. That makes for a pretty good mystery.” (Reeling Reviews)

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THE PALE BLUE EYE (Scott Cooper, 2022 / 128 mins / 14A) 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.