It may have been produced just before the advent of Court TV and before television dared to broadcast fictional accounts of unclosed murder trials, but Nick Broomfield's documentary is a cannily self-reflexive indictment of our appetite for sensationalism. Filmed while Aileen Wuornos-who was falsely dubbed America's first female serial killer-was awaiting appeal on Death Row for murdering seven men while working the Florida highways as a prostitute along with her lesbian lover, Broomfield's investigation picks up where the news media left off. Through his layered and troubling portrait of Wuornos, he reveals a woman who is both victim and victimizer. Wading through ambiguities, Broomfield criticizes the media's tendency to capitalize on shocking surfaces without penetrating them, and documents the exploitation of the Wuornos case, from her guitar-strumming lawyer to her recently adoptive mother-who won't even speak to Broomfield for less than $25 grand-to the lover who turned state's witness.-Lisanne Skyler