Review: “Woman of the Hour” will surely send many looking up this stranger-than-fiction story. But Kendrick’s achievement is in capturing, from a woman’s point of view, just how hard it can be to pick a serial killer out of an all-male line-up.

Hollywood doesn't exactly have a surplus of prominent female directors, so it's exciting to see actor Anna Kendrick making her directorial debut with "Woman of the Hour." Landing on Netflix this week

At the film's L.A. premiere, Kendrick recalled giving "perhaps the most ambivalent pitch in the history of Hollywood" to nab the job and explained why Paul Feig was the first person she called after getting it.

"Something about that just ruined me," Kendrick says of her research for the true-crime thriller. Woman of the Hour's dark subject matter took a toll on its star and first-time director. Anna Kendrick makes her directorial debut with the Netflix true-crime thriller,

The 'Pitch Perfect' star pulled double duty on the movie about serial killer Rodney Alcala, who appeared on 'The Dating Game' in 1978

Hollywood doesn’t exactly have a surplus of prominent female directors, so it’s exciting to see actor Anna Kendrick making her directorial debut with “” Landing on Netflix this week after its debut at the Toronto International Film Festival in September,