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THE PALE BLUE EYE Cert 15 On Netflix now

- Andy Lea

For Christmas, Netflix subscribers unwrapped Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, an entertaining second case for Daniel Craig’s American detective Benoit Blanc. Now, the streaming giant is spoiling us with another excellent whodunnit.

Christian Bale is a beardy, brooding and slightly boozy detective called Augustus Landor who, in a snowy shack in 1830 upstate New York, is mourning the recent death of his wife.