Heavy with gloom and so violent that a single misstep might have reduced it to macabre comedy, “Red Riding: 1974” has the feeling of a nightmare. Director Julian Jarrold favors dim light and bleak skies, mitigated only by illuminating flashes so brilliant as to be blinding. If they seem to suggest a break from the grim reality of journalist Eddie Dunford (Andrew Garfield) investigating a series of child murders in Yorkshire, the illusion is fleeting. Read More