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HISTORICAL FACTS: Branagh - The Untold Story

Stephanie Collie: ‘ferociously talented’ designer behind the Peaky Blinders look dies aged 60

Cillian Murphy, Daniel Craig and Samuel L Jackson were among the stars paying tribute to the award-winning costume designer

Evening Standard

Christmas Day TV: grab some tissues for the last ever episode of Ghosts

The festive special will have the whole family in tears. Plus: Ncuti Gatwa takes over the Tardis. Here’s what to watch on Christmas Day

The Guardian - UK

2023's Best Mystery Thriller Finally Validates Hollywood's Most Underrated Director

It’s time to give Kenneth Branagh his due. With 'A Haunting in Venice,' the filmmaker has not only delivered his best Hercule Poirot adventure to date, but also a movie that explicitly showcases his own skills as a director.

Inverse

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National Theatre: Runners and riders to replace Rufus Norris in top job

Rufus Norris’s departure from the National Theatre leaves a gap at the top of British Theatre but there is no shortage of potential successors.

Evening Standard

Death on the Nile: Gal Gadot leads all-star cast in Kenneth Branagh’s lacklustre second Poirot outing

Even comedic talents like Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French are going through the motions in director Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile.

ABC News

Review: The Long-Delayed ‘Death on the Nile’ Runs Aground

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…

Asharq Al-Awsat

'Death on the Nile' review: Kenneth Branagh's whodunit sets sail, but is it worth the trip?

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…

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Review: Amid delays and scandals, a middling 'Death on the Nile' slumps into theaters

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…

Los Angeles Times

Five Irish actors given BAFTA nominations as shortlist for awards revealed

Ruth Negga, Ciaran Hinds, Caitriona Balfe, Kenneth Branagh and Jessie Buckley are all up for gongs at the annual spectacular

Irish Mirror

Belfast – archiving all the voices of the Troubles

Kenneth Branagh’s latest semi-autobiographical film, Belfast, is set in Northern Ireland in 1969 and explores the “social and political tumult” in the buildup to the Troubles. The “affectionate portrait” of nine-year-old Buddy lies at the centre of this film, critic Robbie Meredith noted. Yet as violence begins to escalate between…

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