- Network: Lifetime
- Series Premiere Date: Feb 21, 2011
- Season #: 1
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80Whatever the complaints about the movie, it brings home, as few films on such themes ever do, the terrors of accusation and conviction.
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75After watching the movie, I may not have actually changed my mind about her innocence--but for the first time, I sure have doubts.
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75Panettiere takes a tricky role and does it, at least, some justice.
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75Knox is neither absolved nor condemned, and you'll end up with more questions that you began with. But pay close attention: There are many telling little details throughout.
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67This ethically debatable movie depicts her as a brat abroad, enjoying sex and drugs with her boyfriend, and implies Knox (who is appealing her conviction) did the deed.
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67It's an extended "Law & Order" that never settles on a verdict.
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60Ultimately, though, Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy isn't as sensational as it might have been. It unfolds without too much of the lurid caricature of so many other Lifetime movies.
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50If anything, it moves so tentatively through the baffling investigation and trial that Hayden Panettiere seems to play a dozen Amandas: cheerful, furtive, erratic--and at times literally clueless. [28 Feb 2011, p.40]