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Henry Goodman gives us every inch of Hercule Poirot’s dandiness and comedy in this exemplary adaptation of Christie’s ingenious murder mystery, but also gets every note of the character’s vast intelligence and pain

Whodunnit just got a whole lot juicer

Will Poulter and Lucy Boynton lead a starry cast in Hugh Laurie’s new Agatha Christie adaptation

While strict fidelity isn't necessary for all adaptations, Branagh veers far away from the central puzzle at stake

Hercule Poirot is one of those literary heroes, like James Bond or Sherlock Holmes, whose image blazes brightly in the popular imagination.

Kenneth Branagh’s new adaptation of Death on the Nile arrives with a lot of preconceived baggage. We know Agatha Christie. We know Poirot.

He may have received a few Oscar nominations for 'Belfast', but Kenneth Branagh's next film has already got its release

The sumptuous settings are central to the allure of Kenneth Branagh’s contemporary take on Death on the Nile – a classic Agatha Christie whodunnit.

Pacing issues hinder Kenneth Branagh's second time sporting Hercule Poirot's majestic moustache

Kenneth Brannagh’s adaptation of Death on the Nile reminds us that Agatha Christie’s work is not solely concerned with English villages. Christie also drew on her travels in the Middle East with her husband, the archaeologist Max Mallowan. Although most of her experience was in Iraq and Syria, Christie was…