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Five Little Pigs, Wallingford: ‘The cooking really is up to scratch’ – restaurant review

It’s named after an Agatha Christie whodunnit, but the only crime here is that it’s not busier, says Jay Rayner

The Guardian - UK

Actor turns writer/director in Christie puzzler 'Why Didn't They Ask Evans?'

Actor Hugh Laurie has left the sanitized American hospital of his TV series “House MD” and burrowed deep into shadowy British mystery. He has not only adapted one of Agatha Christie’s classic murder stories, but is directing “Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?” arriving on BritBox April 12.

Tribune News Service

Tunisia Withdraws ‘Death on the Nile’ over Israeli Actress

Tunisia has withdrawn from cinemas a new Agatha Christie adaptation starring Israeli actress Gal Gadot, following protests over "normalization" with the Jewish state, officials said Wednesday. British director Kenneth Branagh's "Death on the Nile", already banned in Kuwait and Lebanon for the same reason, will no longer be shown in…

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How do you solve a problem like Poirot?

While strict fidelity isn't necessary for all adaptations, Branagh veers far away from the central puzzle at stake

Salon

The 5 Best Actors Who Have Played Hercule Poirot

Hercule Poirot is one of those literary heroes, like James Bond or Sherlock Holmes, whose image blazes brightly in the popular imagination.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Kenneth Branagh’s Death on the Nile seems to forget Agatha Christie was a master of the murder mystery

Kenneth Branagh’s new adaptation of Death on the Nile arrives with a lot of preconceived baggage. We know Agatha Christie. We know Poirot.

The Conversation

‘Death on the Nile’ Tops a Quiet Box Office Weekend

Hollywood’s Super Bowl weekend largely fizzled with the muted debut of Kenneth Branagh’s long-delayed Agatha Christie whodunit, “Death on the Nile,” a tepid reception for the Jennifer Lopez romantic-comedy “Marry Me” and modest box-office bumps for Oscar nominees. “Death on the Nile,” Branagh’s follow-up to the 2017 hit “Murder on…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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'Death on the Nile' tops a quiet box office weekend

The Independent UK

Death on the Nile review – Branagh’s Poirot and co are all show

A starry cast of eccentric toffs meander downriver in this opulent but empty take on Agatha Christie’s 1937 classic

The Guardian - UK

Death on the Nile is a delightfully sumptuous and fanciful murder mystery

The sumptuous settings are central to the allure of Kenneth Branagh’s contemporary take on Death on the Nile – a classic Agatha Christie whodunnit.

The New Daily

Tipping Point host Ben Shephard stunned as contestant mistakes Agatha Christie for Labour politician

'You don't know what Agatha Christie is, what she did, but you think maybe, she was the deputy leader of the Labour party'

Wales Online

Death on the Nile: a meditation on celebrity and a riposte to Christie's critics

Kenneth Brannagh’s adaptation of Death on the Nile reminds us that Agatha Christie’s work is not solely concerned with English villages. Christie also drew on her travels in the Middle East with her husband, the archaeologist Max Mallowan. Although most of her experience was in Iraq and Syria, Christie was…

The Conversation

Death on the Nile Is a Lifeless, Plodding Take on Agatha Christie

Kenneth Branagh's murder mystery lacks glamour.

Reason

The stunning manor house and country park in Greater Manchester that was once home to Agatha Christie

The Grade II listed home was built in 1847

Manchester Evening News

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The Guardian - US

Killer comeback: the big-star Hollywood whodunnit is back again

The success of Knives Out and Murder on the Orient Express has led to a full-throated return of the keep-em-guessing murder mystery

ABC News

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.

Tribune News Service

Movie review: 'Death on the Nile' a dull riverboat outing

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…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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…

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The Independent UK

Review: The long-delayed 'Death on the Nile' runs aground

Kenneth Branagh's “Death on the Nile" is making its humbled way into theaters this Friday

The Independent UK

Death on the Nile review: After years of chaos and delays, Armie Hammer-starring mystery isn’t worth salvaging

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?

Los Angeles Times

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…

Chicago Tribune

‘The Afterparty’ review: A high school reunion becomes ‘Murder on the Millennial Express’ in this comic riff on classic murder mysteries

A 15-year high school reunion followed by a house party ends with the host dead at the bottom of his cliffside abode in the comedic whodunit “The Afterparty” on Apple TV+. Coming on the heels of “Knives Out” and “Only Murders in the Building,” we seem to have a modest…

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