True/False 2014: ‘Killing Time’ Review

Whether through the eyes of Swedish filmmakers in The Black Power Mixtape: 1967–1975 or Werner Herzog in Into the Abyss, foreign documentarians have time and again drawn new ideas out of American social and political problems. Jaap van Hoewijk went to Texas to make Killing Time, a narrowly focused portrait of that state’s use of the death penalty. The r…