[Note: In the wake of the Tribeca festival's postponement this year, The Hollywood Reporter is reviewing select fest entries that elected to screen digitally for critics.] An uncompelling spinoff of the director's 2017 film about women sentenced to death row, Sabrina Van Tassel's The State of Texas vs.
Melissa interviews the family and supporters of Melissa Lucio, a woman convicted of killing her 2-year-old daughter in 2007.
Hazy on the storytelling front even before it simply drops the tale and summarizes several dramatic developments in awkwardly written title cards, the doc offers ample reason to suspect Lucio didn't do what she was convicted of.
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