Mindscape (aka "Anna") (2013)

The high-concept sci-fi is really just a contrivance, the only thing separating this movie from a more run-of-the-mill whodunit with Mark Strong's "memory investigator", a man able to piggybank along in people's memories, really just a Hercule Poirot who might otherwise have to simply interview those involved in a mystery involving a housebound and hunger-striking teenager (another eye-roll-inducing contrivance), a family secret, a murder, schoolyard bullying and mistaken identity.

★★☆☆☆

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Manhunter (1986)

Those of you waiting for Season 3 of Mindhunter to come out in 2078 may like to fill some of the time with this adaptation of Thomas Harris' Red Dragon, the first of the author's serial killer thrillers featuring Hannibal Lecktor/Lecter, the incarcerated psychotic psychiatrist who helps the FBI with serial killer investigations, because it is superior to the Red Dragon of 2002 and like Mindhunter features a retro time-specific look and feel and soundtrack, and the investigator, Will Graham played by William Petersen is essentially a prototype of Mindhunter's Agent Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff).

★★★☆☆

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