Dir: Kenneth Branagh. Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Gal Gadot, Tom Bateman, Annette Bening, Letitia Wright, Emma Mackey, Sophie Okonedo. 12A, 127 minutes
The kindest thing we could with Death on the Nile, after all that’s happened to it, would be to move on and forget. Fox originally slated the film for November 2019 (does that not feel like a century ago?) – then December 2019, intended as a bit of adult-orientated counterprogramming to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Then Fox was bought by Disney, the company that made The Rise of Skywalker, and it found itself pushed back to 2020. Then, of course, came the pandemic. And while the studios were busy juggling release dates like they were flaming cannonballs, multiple allegations surfaced about one of the film’s stars, Armie Hammer. These included rape, emotional abuse, manipulation, and coercion. The actor denies the accusations.
