movie review

His shaping of the material is seamless, and the images he evokes are inspiring.
At the center of everything is Sean Penn, who disappears into the title role.
The depiction looks accurate, but maybe it looks that way only to people, like me, who never saw San Francisco in that era.
Motives for White’s crime are suggested in the film, but too neat an accounting of them would distort the awful truth of the story and undermine the power of the movie.