“What do you have to say to the Staten Island community?” a reporter asks accused child murderer Andre Rand about halfway through Cropsey, an absorbing and openly personal look at the function and dysfunction of local legends. “They’re the perpetrators of a fraud,” Rand replies, before ducking into the armored van that will take him back to Rikers Island. They are the first words he speaks in the film — a menacing voicemail is his only follow-up — and they resonate throughout the rest of a documentary that gets a little lost within its own agenda of separating “the facts from the folklore.”
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REVIEW: A Bogeyman Gets His Close-Up in Cropsey
