• Network: Lifetime
  • Series Premiere Date: Nov 5, 2016
Metascore
29

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 4 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 4
  2. Negative: 3 out of 4

Critic Reviews

  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ray Rahman
    Nov 4, 2016
    58
    The best parts of the movie come in the suspenseful earlier half, which outlines the murky circumstances of the body's discovery. But even those surprisingly strong scenes are, like the rest of the film, plagued by terrible dialogue and awful, cheap, and creepy decision to have JonBenet narrate the movie from the afterlife. [4 Nov 2016, p.57]
  2. Reviewed by: Sonia Saraiya
    Nov 4, 2016
    20
    There is, undoubtedly, some camp appeal there, especially in Campbell’s performance as the histrionic Patsy. But the production is so limited, even on the level of pure spectacle, that it is difficult to see anything beyond its almost gleeful exploitation.
  3. Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    Nov 4, 2016
    20
    Mostly straightforward, the project employs one device--having the slain girl narrate her story--that leaves a bad, sleazy taste all around.
  4. Reviewed by: Ken Tucker
    Nov 4, 2016
    10
    [A] brutally crude dramatization of the crime and its aftermath.