Spinning Man (2018)

Pierce Brosnan plays a respectful but resolute detective who's investigating the disappearance of a seventeen-year-old girl, last seen near a lake that college professor Evan Birch (Guy Pearce) had reason to be close to on the day in question. Birch outright denies the accusations, but his weak memory envelops his movements with an air of doubt for both police and viewer.
It resembles a Nordic crime thriller, which makes sense when you consider that director Simon Kaijser da Silva is Swedish, but the distinctive Nordic approach doesn't work quite as well in a US environment. Also, while the professor's lectures on philosophical approaches to truth play into the plot, their use isn't compelling enough to permeate the overall feeling.

2½ apropos talks out of 5