Dead Man's Wire finds timeless angst when focused on its criminal folk hero

There is no better contemporary lens for viewing Dead Man’s Wire, Gus Van Sant’s dramatic reenactment of Tony Kiritsis’ 1977 hostage standoff, than Luigi Mangione’s December 2024 arrest and current pretrial. Granted, there’s a vast difference between Mangione and Kiritsis. Mangione allegedly shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson for political reasons, while the fed-up Kiritsis hitched a shotgun muzzle to Indianapolis mortgage broker Richard Hall’s head for a personal one: Kiritsis believed Hall had designs on real estate Kiritsis owned...