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Shattered Glass, which I believe was adapted from a Buzz Bissinger Vanity Fair article, is so underrated as both a true crime movie and a journalism movie. It also might be the only movie in which Hayden Christensen has ever been good. It's a total poppy field movie for me.

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On the Dirty John topic, I loved their Betty Broderick series with Amanda Peet. I never was particularly interested in that case but that series was riveting.

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One that immediately comes to mind is the 2007 movie Breach with Chris Cooper as FBI agent turned Soviet spy Robert Hanssen. After seeing it I started devouring a lot more content on cold war espionage both fictional (The Americans, John le Carre) and non (Ben Macintyre's oeuvre, Wind of Change podcast).

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I could totally throw in my beloved Fast and Furious here... Hustlers, Wolf of Wall Street, Psycho, All the Presidents Men for film. And the Enron documentary.

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I absolutely hated the writing style of Vulgar Favors (too journalistic/not literary enough), but ACS: The Assassination of Gianni Versace is an amazing piece of art. Darren Criss f*cking BROUGHT IT. I still miss the PTV recaps (and podcast readings) that SDB did. I read & listened to them multiple times.

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Have never read Zodiac, but love the film. Stellar cast and a nice look at how law enforcement fails when officers and officials don't work across county lines, because, dicks. The end.

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I would add Unbelievable to this list. I had even read the long form article and tsk-tsked over it, but the movie hurt me in places I didn’t know I had.

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I watched The Bling Ring on a flight and was quite intrigued, so I checked out The Suspects Wore Louboutins in Vanity Fair when I got home, and eventually the longer book Nancy Jo Sales (author of the article) wrote about the case.

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