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Short Redhead Reel Reviews for the week of Nov. 25

December 6, 2022

"I Am Vanessa Guillén" (NR) (3.5) [Partially subtitled] [Available Nov. 17 on Netflix.] — Christy Wegener's in-depth, heartbreaking, touching, behind-the-scenes, gut-wrenching, eye-opening, ire-inducing, 96-minute documentary that delves into the disappearance and horrific murder by U.S. soldier Aaron David Robison and his accomplice girlfriend Cecily Aguilar in April 2020 at the Fort Hood military base in Texas of dedicated 20-year-old U.S. Army Spc. Vanessa Guillén.

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[It] consists of insightful commentary by journalist Heather Osbourne, attorney Natalie Khawam, House speaker Nancy Pelosi, Congresswomen (such as Kirsten Gillibrand, Sylvia Garcia, and Jackie Speier).