Movie reviews: 'Death on the Nile' has style with an all-star cast, but feels old fashioned
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This week, TV pop culture critic Richard Crouse reviews new movies: 'Death on the Nile,' 'I Want You Back,' 'Blacklight,' and 'Drive My Car.'
Her books are the fuel for countless stage plays, television shows and movies, but the spark that make the novels so entertaining often goes missing in translation.
It speaks volumes that the best Christie movie of late, “Knives Out,” isn’t an adaptation of her work. It borrows from the mechanics of her best stories, including the climatic singling out of the murderer in a roomful of suspects, to make the most enjoyable movie tribute to her style in years and that includes Kenneth Branagh’s 2017 thriller “Murder on the Orient Express,” which is actually based on a Christie classic.
The director takes a second kick at the Christie can with “Death on the Nile,” an adaptation of the writer’s best-selling 1937 mystery of jealousy, wealth and death.
The film begins with a flashback to the First World War and the origin of Belgian soldier Hercule Poirot’s (Branagh) flamboyant moustache.
