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The Most Dangerous Animal Of All is intriguing enough to spend three-and-a-half hours on, but you may find yourself wondering why this story couldn’t have been told in half the time.
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Director Kief Davidson allows the author to have his say and add new evidence that he's uncovered since the book's publication, but his team also does what Stewart's publisher, Harper Collins, apparently never did: fact-check his assertions. It's in those verifications that the documentary justifies its existence (though it never justifies its four-hour run time, which is stuffed with corny close-ups and recreations).
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Those looking for well-earned emotion will find themselves satisfied, but crime junkies hoping the show will shed more light on the Zodiac will walk away disappointed.
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The problem with The Most Dangerous Animal of All: Earl Van Best Jr. never comes into focus, and the Zodiac Killer doesn’t either. More importantly, the connection between Best and the monster who terrorized the Bay Area is woefully tenuous. ... The Most Dangerous Animal never really picks a lane, even with so many lanes available. It tries to do too much, and in some places with far too little.
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FX's first true crime series, The Most Dangerous Animal of All, brings a new type of grossness to the genre — one in which the audience feels shameful simply because viewing the docuseries makes us complicit in stroking the ego of its subject, Gary L. Stewart.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 3
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Mixed: 0 out of 3
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Negative: 2 out of 3
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May 3, 2020