India, Sept. 25 -- Ted Kaczynski is a name most people already know. The man known as the Unabomber killed three people and injured 23 others during a bombing campaign that lasted nearly two decades. His case has been covered through documentaries, books and countless true-crime investigations. So, what is left to say?

Netflix's Unabomber finds an interesting answer. Instead of simply retelling the manhunt, the film spends much of its time asking a more uncomfortable question: how did Ted Kaczynski become the person behind those bombs?

Directed by Janus Metz, the film stars Jacob Tremblay as young Ted Kaczynski, Russell Crowe as Harvard psychologist Henry Murray and Shailene Woodley as FBI agent Joanne Miller. It arrives on Netflix on S...