October 2024 Bonus Review: Citizen X
the true crime that's worth your time
The crime
Andrei “Red Ripper” Chikatilo’s surpassingly disgusting serial murders.
The story
Citizen X, 1995's HBO movie on Soviet law enforcement's fits-and-starts pursuit of "the Rostov Ripper," is well built and watchable, but not quite essential – good, but not quite very good.
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