“He makes a terrific Ripley. So much so that you wish the filmmakers would ditch the postmodern frou-frou and just cast Ehrenreich in a straight Highsmith adaptation. The easily foreseeable problem with A Talent For Murder is that the new Ripley story conjured by Murray-Smith for the purposes of the screenplay can’t hold a candle to Highsmith’s originals.” – Spliced Personality Substack, 10/22/2026