Anna Kendrick’s ‘’Woman of the Hour’’ is a sometimes awkwardly plotted but consistently insightful thriller about the anxiety of the female experience.

Review: “Woman of the Hour” will surely send many looking up this stranger-than-fiction story. But Kendrick’s achievement is in capturing, from a woman’s point of view, just how hard it can be to pick a serial killer out of an all-male line-up.

That simply cannot be true” is the reaction many will have to the narrative centerpiece of Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut, “Woman of the Hour.” And yet: On a 1978 episode of “The Dating Game,” one of the “eligible bachelors” was a serial killer in the midst of a murder spree.

In "Woman of the Hour," Anna Kendrick plays Cheryl Bradshaw, a plucky young actress trying to make it in Hollywood. She's going out for auditions but not having much luck when she lands herself a gig: appearing as a guest on "The Dating Game.

The 'Pitch Perfect' star pulled double duty on the movie about serial killer Rodney Alcala, who appeared on 'The Dating Game' in 1978

The haunting true story of Seventies killer Rodney Alcala is given the Netflix treatment – but it’s a touch too glossy to feel genuine