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Snowtown: Cannes Review

Justin Kurzel directs a well-crafted but hard-to-watch film about Australian serial killer John Bunting.

SYDNEY — Only the truly ghoulish will find any pleasure in Snowtown, Justin Kurzel’s well-crafted but hard-to-watch true-crime debut. Unrelentingly grim, this psychological horror story supplies fodder for nightmares in its portrayal of John Bunting, Australia’s most notorious serial killer, whose modus operandi led to his 1990s killing spree being dubbed “the bodies in the barrels” case.