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Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel (TV Series)

Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel

2021

Joe Berlinger

Documentary, Tom Scorzone

5.5

2,531

TV Series. Documentary The notorious Cecil Hotel grows in infamy when guest Elisa Lam vanishes. From the creator of "The Ted Bundy Tapes", a dive into crime's darkest places.

	Author	Review
United States	Caroline Framke Variety	"It’s surprisingly self-aware, and occasionally very smart about the intersections of local history (...) So it’s really too bad that it takes three full episodes (...) before 'Crime Scene' shows its ultimate hand."	NEU
United Kingdom	James McMahon NME	"An island of good taste and great insight, taking its time to explore the sociology of the phenomenon as much as it does the lurid details of the case.(…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Ireland	Deirdre Molumby entertainment.ie	"Like so much other true crime, 'Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel' is dark and disconcerting, but fascinating."	POS
United States	Daniel Fienberg The Hollywood Reporter	"What 'Crime Scene' needs is much more of Doug Mungin (...) and much less of almost everything else (...) Smart and accurate may be nourishing, but it doesn't get people to watch a four-hour Netflix documentary."	NEU
Denmark	Karina Adelgaard Heaven of Horror	"A mess from the beginning until the very end (...) It’s the perfect example of why some people loathe true-crime (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
Canada	Andrew Parker The Gate	"Within the margins of this case, and all the overlapping, sometimes contradictory investigations surrounding it, lies a potent examination of disinformation in society today."	POS
United States	Daniel Hart Ready Steady Cut	"[it] feels like a group of conspiracy theorists in a room, happy to be given their platform to spout whatever pixelated finding they can uncover from the web (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"Much like the case it profiles (...) [it] is not what it first appears. It’s better (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Jessie Thompson London Evening Standard	"Watching this series leaves one with the equivalent taste of drinking water contaminated by decomposing human remains. The series will no doubt be wildly popular, but it is ghoulish and unsavoury (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG

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