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Contemporary blockbuster filmmaking is all about the origin story, so naturally, in “Death on the Nile,” his follow-up to the 2017 Agatha Christie mystery “Murder on the Orient Express,” director/star Kenneth Branagh details the nascence of one of his most fascinating recent screen creations: Hercule Poirot’s mustache. In “Murder on…

“It's maddening. Really shoddy work."

Kenneth Branagh's Agatha Christie adaptation “Death on the Nile” begins with a flashback to the trenches of World War I before shifting to 1930s London two decades later, but that’s nothing compared to the time that's passed since Branagh's preceding 2017 whodunit “Murder on the Orient Express.” That film, which…

These days — let us hope, for not too much longer — a movie has to be something special to lure an audience into a theater; something you just can't wait to see, something that would be diminished if watched on a screen at home. Unfortunately, Kenneth Branagh's "Death on…

Who really has the will to fight for Kenneth Branagh’s Agatha Christie adaptation, or to drag it out from the ashes of its own catastrophic production history?

There's at least one moment in "Death on the Nile," Kenneth Branagh's latest Agatha Christie adaptation, when what's on-screen brushes up uncomfortably against what's off-screen. Linnet Doyle, an enviably rich socialite taking a honeymoon cruise down the Nile River, has just been found shot to death in her stateroom; her…

Better than its predecessor, 'Death on the Nile' succeeds as a focused, confident adult murder mystery.

Branagh’s spirited performance as Poirot and a big-name ensemble cast can’t keep this stale and two-dimensional whodunnit afloat

Branagh’s changes to what was perfectly good source material mean this lavish production doesn’t even count as dumb fun