Murder mysteries generally tend to strive for complexity, but more often than not, myriad twists and turns will give way to a hollow core. That hasn’t been enough to damn the genre entirely — especially not now, when the work of Agatha Christie seems more popular than ever before. Hollywood is more eager than ever to unmask hypocrisy for the sake of a good time. That so many of these thrillers seem to deal in the perils of AI and accessibility, just as the film industry fights for protection against predatory programming, is certainly ironic. But very few are all that interested in real interrogation.
