Warning: this article discusses major spoilers for “A Haunting in Venice.”It’s the moment everybody looks forward to during the trailer for director Kenneth Branagh’s newest Hercule Poirot movie.
A half-dozen or so A-listers have been crowded into a claustrophobically tight space in some exotic locale.
Each character wears expressions that somehow ride the line between crushing guilt and sheer incredulity that they could ever be considered criminals.
And, with a magnificent flourish, Branagh’s immaculately-groomed mug turns to the camera and somberly pronounces through his thick, deeply-exaggerated Belgian accent: “There has been a murder, and you are all suspects!”Despite beginning with its main detective in a far different emotional state than the previous films — living out his days in self-exiled retirement after losing his taste for crime-solving — “A Haunting in Venice” (reviewed by /Film’s Josh Spiegel here) doesn’t so much as reinvent the classic formula that brought…
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