'Boston Strangler' review: This girlbossed 'Zodiac' is a true-crime miss

Is there a place for female empowerment in true crime? Possibly, but Boston Strangler, a drama inspired by a 1960s string of murders committed against women, is not where you'll find it.

Writer/director Matt Ruskin tries to balance the unmistakable misogyny of the murders themselves by centering the story not on the titular...