'Sharp Objects' review: a riveting Amy Adams solves a gone-girls murder mystery
by Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Jul 05, 2018
3 minutes
For a treacherously long while, director Jean-Marc Vallee's eight-part HBO limited series "Sharp Objects," based on Gillian Flynn's debut novel, soaks up atmosphere and points all 10 fingers at a slew of shifty-eyed murder suspects, while Amy Adams (as newspaper reporter Camille Preaker, dogged by a nightmarish personal history) drives around her boot-heel Missouri hometown swigging vodka out of a water bottle.
She copes with a serious case of the flashbacks. Vallee, lately of "Big Little Lies"
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