The Murder Mystery Movie Killing It On Netflix Right Now

The unheralded 2020 feature The Night Clerk has made a strong entrance onto the streamer's Top Ten chart, debuting at number six. The flick stars Tye Sheridan as Bart, a motel clerk with a penchant for spying on his charges and who sees way more than he ever wanted to.

Sheridan, perhaps best known for his lead role in Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One and for portraying the younger version of Scott Summers in the X-Men movies, is an extremely capable young actor. The Night Clerk surrounds him with an excellent supporting cast, which includes Ana de Armas, Helen Hunt, and John Leguizamo.

The film was written and directed by Michael Cristofer, who in the late '70s won a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award for his Broadway stage production The Shadow Box. He's penned screenplays for flicks like The Witches of Eastwick and The Bonfire of the Vanities, directed movies such as Gia and Original Sin, and even appeared as an actor in a slew of television series and feature films. Most recently, he appeared as Phillip Price in the hit USA series Mr. Robot.

The Night Clerk is Cristofer's first turn in the director's chair since 2001, and for Netflix viewers, it's hitting the sweet spot.

In the film, Sheridan's Bart is a young man who lives with Asperger's syndrome. He works the lonely night shift on the Mercer hotel's front desk. Secretly, he has set up five surveillance cameras in one of the rooms, in order to try to gain a better understanding of how to engage people in conversation and alleviate his own social awkwardness.

One night, a woman named Karen checks in, and Bart gives her his wired room. He completes his shift, and goes home, where he watches Karen. Unexpectedly, a man shows up and that's when everything starts to go pear-shaped for Bart. There's a violent altercation, and Bart makes the unfortunate decision to return to the hotel and try to help Karen. The young woman ends up dead of a gunshot wound, with Bart apparently the only person nearby. From there, things only get twistier, and we won't spoil what happens next. Keep watching the video to see the murder mystery movie killing it on Netflix right now.

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