Nothing Lasts Forever, Even Cold 'November Criminals'
Director Sacha Gervasi's adaptation of a 2010 novel about a student (Ansel Elgort) investigating his classmate's murder features a great cast, but this "sketch of a movie" feels rushed and heavily truncated.
A murder mystery narrated by a toxically self-aware teenager, Sam Munson's 2010 novel The November Criminals is the kind of book that attracts smart filmmakers and serious actors â that then, all too often, gets diluted into a bland disappointment like November Criminals.
The movie was co-written by Steven Knight () and Sacha Gervasi) and directed by the latter. It stars Ansel Elgort () and Chloe Grace Moretz, supported by David Strathairn and Catherine Keener. Whatever drew them to this endeavor is not in the finished product. There's no quick way of determining if it was lost in the writing process or left in the editing room.
