Quartile rating: 7/10 · 1 rating
Serving life in prison for murdering their parents, Lyle and Erik Menendez speak out in this documentary explaining the shocking crime and ensuing trials.
A true crime documentary revisiting the high-profile Menendez brothers case, notable for featuring direct interviews with Lyle and Erik Menendez themselves, giving it a degree of immediacy and novelty. The film offers a compassionate reframing of a well-known story through the brothers' own perspective, which adds value, but the cinematography is fairly standard documentary fare with talking heads and archival footage. Acting is not applicable in a traditional sense, scored low to reflect the absence of performed roles. The ending is solid but unsurprising given the well-documented legal outcomes. Overall a competent, moderately engaging documentary elevated mainly by direct access to the subjects.