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- Netflix
- Mar 3, 2021
- Netflix
- Mar 3, 2021
Summary The three-part documentary series directed by Jared Hess and Tyler Measom look into the 1985 pipe bombings in Salt Lake City that killed two and seriously injured another who made his name in locating purportedly historical Mormon documents.
- Netflix
- Mar 3, 2021
- Netflix
- Mar 3, 2021
Summary The three-part documentary series directed by Jared Hess and Tyler Measom look into the 1985 pipe bombings in Salt Lake City that killed two and seriously injured another who made his name in locating purportedly historical Mormon documents.
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Generally Favorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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70% Positive
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30% Mixed
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It's the whydunnit -- the mind-bending master plan exposed in the final episode -- that truly sets Murder Among the Mormons apart as one of the strangest and most compelling additions to the true crime genre.
Directors Jared Hess and Tyler Measom do a superb job of telling this incredible true story via a treasure trove of archival news footage, audio tapes and home videos; the occasional re-creation of events, and interviews with a host of historians, researchers, investigators, news reporters and other key figures.
Gripping, in-depth and respectful of the long-felt consequences of Hofmann’s crimes, Murder Among the Mormons is how you make a true crime documentary.
Hess and Measom don’t editorialize or otherwise insert themselves into the production, beyond posing a question that shakes one of the more ostentatious interviewees late in the series. Aside from one giddily quirky mid-series sequence, they also don’t bring much character to the format, which is surprising, given the directors’ previous work.
Murder Among The Mormons is a fascinating look at some of the inner workings of the Mormon Church, even if the filmmakers were more interested in the story around the document trade than the church itself.
A three-part series that is yet again a case of a solid movie, or maybe even a TV special, that has been pulled to three hours to meet a Netflix requirement. And what’s even more disappointing is that the extended runtime only leads to repetition instead of the intriguing questions this true story inspired and then leaves unasked about religion and blind faith.
Jared Hess (Yes, the Napoleon Dynamite director) and Tyler Measom's examination of the 1985 bombings in Salt Lake City tackles a pretty great story — one that mainstream audiences may not know at all — but never quite finds the tone or focus to properly tell it.
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