An entirely valid criticism leveled at Netflix is the excessive production budgets handed over by the streaming service to give filmmakers almost complete creative freedom, but it’s entirely up to you if the $72 million spent on The Pale Blue Eye is worth the sacrifice of seeing shows like Warrior Nun and 1899 canceled before their time.
There’s arguably no real need for a period-set mystery thriller to cost almost as much as a blockbuster action movie, but in an even more unusual twist that only makes things more confusing, writer and director Scott Cooper’s latest collaboration with his Out of the Furnace and Hostiles star Christian Bale was cheaper to produce than Noah Baumbach’s dramatic comedy White Noise.