The Pale Blue Eye (2022) Netflix ★★

Christian Bale stars in this florid historical thriller, centred on the author Edgar Allen Poe. In 19th-century upstate New York, seasoned detective Augustus Landor (Bale) is hired to investigate the murder of a West Point military cadet, but soon finds himself met with an impenetrable barrier of silence from the prestigious academy’s other trainees. Dogged, not dazzling.