'Dead Man's Wire' Review: Gus Van Sant and Bill Skarsgård Turn a Freak Hostage Incident from 1977 Into a Miniature 'Dog Day Afternoon' by Owen Gleiberman

The whole real-time, hand-held-camera aesthetic of "Dead Man's Wire," which Van Sant brings off with astonishing flair, looks at Tony Kiritsis's actions "objectively." But beneath that it's actually a moralistic movie that says, of the mortgage company, "They deserved what they got." In the film's view, they're the real criminals.

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