Death on the Nile

[Opens Feb.11 in theaters.] Wonderful cinematography, sets, costumes, and musical score dominate Kenneth Branagh's engaging, well-written, intense, superbly acted, twist-filled, 127-minute whodunnit thriller based on Agatha Christie's 1934 novel in which a handsome, newly married couple (Gal Gadot and Armie Hammer) celebrates their wedding with an idyllic Egyptian honeymoon on the Nile onboard a luxury steam ship, and when a distraught, jealous, gun-toting, jilted fiancée (Emma Mackey) shows up and bodies begin to drop like flies in 1937, highly observant, mustache-wearing Belgian detective Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) begins investigating numerous duplicitous guests (Annette Bening, Tom Bateman, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, and Ann Turkel) and employees, including an assistant (Rose Leslie), a physician (Russell Brand), a family attorney (Ali Fazal), and a blues nightclub singer (Sophie Okonedo) and her niece (Letitia Wright).
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