If the storytelling were tighter and more successfully focused on its more sociologically provocative elements, Detective Hole could have settled into the overstuffed genre’s top tier rather than taking a place in the acceptable middle.
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Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
25 Mar. 2026
But there was nothing overstuffed or leaden about Harth-Bedoya’s interpretation.
—
Scott Cantrell,
Dallas Morning News,
22 Mar. 2026
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