Death on the Nile (2022)

"An aggressively misguided, strangely dour affair that starts off bad and only gets worse."

"Kenneth Branagh makes heavy weather of Christie caper."

"A moderately diverting dessert"

"Takes a criminally long time getting to the crime"

"A glossy, undemanding confection that doesn’t make waves, but shouldn’t be given a wide berth either."

"Satisfying enough, though more so as glossy, old-school entertainment than diabolically clever mystery."

"Works because of how effortlessly — and sometimes even charmingly — it bridges the gap between old-fashioned entertainment and modern appetites."

"An improvement on Murder On The Orient Express, with the increased focus on Branagh’s Poirot (even with its strange moustache obsession) welcome enough to distract from the problems with some of its ensemble and its too-obvious reliance on VFX."

"An intermittently entertaining but otherwise tiresomely lugubrious trip down crocodile-filled waters."

"A sumptuous dinner-theater redux studded with stray bits of caricature, camp, and many CG pyramids."

"Has pizazz and period style in the same way today’s big-brand toothpastes have flavor -- artificial ingredients give them a taste that’s discernible, but too generic to name."

"A lot of fun"

"Branagh seems to be having a grand old time, so we might as well, too."