This film is based on true events. Through the eyes of the media we see how an innocent couple is falsely accused by the media of a hideous murder. A journalist tries to show the audience their innocence. Balanced, well researched and told with a certain panache, this is a movie that can compete with The Insider, Spotlight or Zodiac. Very interesting: polster and pragmatic entrepreneur Maurice de Hond, a man who strangely enough used to be taken extremely seriously by the Dutch media bobo's is only shown in archive footage, but is the antagonist is this tale about fake news. This surefooted movie deserves a bigger, international audience... and some awards.

Based on a true case, this movie follows the dramatic ins and outs of a murder case as it proceeds through a flawed judicial system. It also shows how a person can be convicted and punished in the court of public opinion thanks to social media, regardless of the facts. It inadvertently also points out the limitations even of the movie's heroes, the "responsible" media who figure things out too slowly and in small bits and pieces.

On the downside, the movie has some problems. In a case that covers this much time, it was pointless to have a brief initial scene, then going back two years and plodding through a decade of the case. And it might have been a stronger movie had it focused not on the journalist, but on the character played by the excellent Yorick van Waginengen.

Still, an interesting movie, well worth watching.