Crooked House (2017)
Max Irons (The Host) leads an all-star cast featuring Glenn Close and Gillian Anderson in this screen adaptation of the Agatha Christie mystery novel.
Private detective Charles Hayward (Irons) is invited to solve a gruesome crime where nobody is above suspicion, including Sophia (Stefanie Martini, TV's Emerald City), his client and former lover.
- Director:
- Gilles Paquet-Brenner ('Dark Places', 'Sarah's Key', 'Pretty Things')
- Writer:
- Julian FellowesGilles Paquet-BrennerTim Rose Price
- Cast:
- Max IronsStefanie MartiniGlenn CloseHonor KneafseyChristina HendricksTerence StampJulian SandsGillian Anderson
Reviews & comments
Vulture
pressCrooked House knows what its job is: to set up a tangled web of colourful characters, throw in a few red herrings, set off its dynamite, and make its exit while the smoke is still in the air.
Variety
press"Crooked House" keeps you guessing, right up to its shocking conclusion (of which Christie was especially proud, naming it a personal favorite among her extensive oeuvre).
The Telegraph
pressAll in all, a hugely enjoyable, sumptuous adaptation that, while never attempting to break the Christie mould, imbued the story with a pleasingly contemporary feel.
The New York Times
pressThe superb cast provides mild pleasures, as do some aspects of the elaborate mystery itself.
New Zealand Listener
pressSucceeds where recent adaptations, such as Kenneth Branagh’s Murder on the Orient Express, failed: the how is just as important as the who.
Los Angeles Times
pressIrons more than holds his own at the centre of this swirling mystery, and Martini proves an enchanting leading lady, but the real draws are Close and Anderson, who bring a ferocious zest to their over-the-top characters.
I need to like my characters or at least something about them. The ending is shocking but nothing I didn't see coming. Lots of interesting characters but I just didn't give a toss for any of them. Now if it had ended with the crooked house being turned into a raging inferno which killed off all of them , I would have dragged out the marshmallows on sticks...
Vulture
pressCrooked House knows what its job is: to set up a tangled web of colourful characters, throw in a few red herrings, set off its dynamite, and make its exit while the smoke is still in the air.
Variety
press"Crooked House" keeps you guessing, right up to its shocking conclusion (of which Christie was especially proud, naming it a personal favorite among her extensive oeuvre).
The Telegraph
pressAll in all, a hugely enjoyable, sumptuous adaptation that, while never attempting to break the Christie mould, imbued the story with a pleasingly contemporary feel.
The New York Times
pressThe superb cast provides mild pleasures, as do some aspects of the elaborate mystery itself.
New Zealand Listener
pressSucceeds where recent adaptations, such as Kenneth Branagh’s Murder on the Orient Express, failed: the how is just as important as the who.
Los Angeles Times
pressIrons more than holds his own at the centre of this swirling mystery, and Martini proves an enchanting leading lady, but the real draws are Close and Anderson, who bring a ferocious zest to their over-the-top characters.
I need to like my characters or at least something about them. The ending is shocking but nothing I didn't see coming. Lots of interesting characters but I just didn't give a toss for any of them. Now if it had ended with the crooked house being turned into a raging inferno which killed off all of them , I would have dragged out the marshmallows on sticks...
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