After several years navigating a purgatory of impersonal film projects and forgettable series, Gus Van Sant returns to the cinematic forefront with Prime Crime: A True Story, a title that suggests a made-for-television crime drama but hides other things. To begin with, a portrait of class struggle in which the director of Drugstore Cowboy (1989) and Elephant (2003) sides with a common man (an energetic Bill Skarsgard) who, in 1977 Indianapolis, kidnaps a banker's son in revenge for his financial scams (a well-delivered and sly Al Pacino).