Slash Film
An aggressively misguided, strangely dour affair that starts off bad and only gets worse.
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Death on the Nile (2022)
Kenneth Branagh helms this adaptation of the steamboat-set Agatha Christie whodunit, a follow-up to his 2017 film Murder on the Orient Express, with an all-star cast including himself, Armie Hammer, Gal Gadot, Annette Bening, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders and Russell Brand.
A young heiress on her honeymoon aboard a river steamer has been murdered - and everyone on board is now a suspect. For Detective Hercule Poirot (Branagh), what started as an Egyptian holiday adventure abruptly descends into a frantic search for a murderer.
Less2022Rating: M, Mature themes and violence127 minsUSA
Thriller
- Director:
- Kenneth Branagh ('All Is True', 'Murder on the Orient Express', 'Thor')
- Writer:
- Michael Green
- Cast:
- Kenneth BranaghGal GadotLetitia WrightArmie HammerAnnette BeningAli FazalSophie OkonedoTom BatemanEmma MackeyDawn FrenchRose LeslieJennifer SaundersRussell Brand
Death on the Nile (2022) | Reviews
62%269 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® Score
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Total Film
A glossy, undemanding confection that doesn’t make waves, but shouldn’t be given a wide berth either.
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Hollywood Reporter
Satisfying enough, though more so as glossy, old-school entertainment than diabolically clever mystery.
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IndieWire
Works because of how effortlessly — and sometimes even charmingly — it bridges the gap between old-fashioned entertainment and modern appetites.
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Empire Magazine
An improvement on Murder On The Orient Express, with the increased focus on Branagh’s Poirot (even with its strange moustache obsession) welcome enough to distract from the problems with some of its ensemble and its too-obvious reliance on VFX.
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Vanity Fair
An intermittently entertaining but otherwise tiresomely lugubrious trip down crocodile-filled waters.
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Entertainment Weekly
A sumptuous dinner-theater redux studded with stray bits of caricature, camp, and many CG pyramids.
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Wall Street Journal
Has pizazz and period style in the same way today’s big-brand toothpastes have flavor -- artificial ingredients give them a taste that’s discernible, but too generic to name.
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Death on the Nile (2022) | News & Opinion
news
Poirot’s latest whodunnit Death On The Nile is now streaming on Disney+
A murder, a moustache, and enough recognisable famous faces…to fill the Nile!
reviews
Unsatisfying storytelling holds back Branagh’s entertaining Death on the Nile
Having the characters figured out means little if the plot’s out of hand.
