Unforgivable (2021)

This has been panned by many a film reviewer, and I do agree that the moniker "Mirthless in Seattle" isn't far off the mark. Sandra Bullock gives a stoic, stern performance in a grim and yet largely underwhelming tale of a woman seeking out her younger sister after being released from a 20-year prison stint for murder. At times, there's a noble grimness to the film, which is apparently based on a 2009 British miniseries, but the journey is stilted, the outcome fizzles, and the overall choices made by the protagonist are questionable or hard to understand--which has a way of undercutting much of the story. Here is the back story, which is flashed back to with some frequency. Decades previous, Bullock's Ruth was sent away for killing a kindly local sheriff when officers came to her home in an attempt to evict Ruth and separate her from her much younger sister, Katie, in the wake of their father's suicide. What she didn't understand, but comes to, is that she will forever be a cop killer, and moving beyond that is at best unlikely. The movie reveals why it happened but not why she was so wildly unrealistic about the consequences.