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Name: A Haunting in Venice
Released: 2023-9-15
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Kelly Reilly, Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Dornan, Kyle Allen

A Haunting in Venice

NR
2023

76%

Set in eerie, post-World War II Venice on All Hallows’ Eve, “A Haunting in Venice” is a terrifying mystery featuring the return of the celebrated sleuth, Hercule Poirot. Now retired and living in self-imposed exile in the world’s most glamorous city, Poirot reluctantly attends a séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.

Director:

Kenneth Branagh

Producer:

Kenneth Branagh, Judy Hofflund

Writer:

Michael Green

Cast:

Kenneth Branagh, Kelly Reilly, Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Dornan, Kyle Allen, Tina Fey, Emma Laird, Camille Cottin, Riccardo Scamarcio, Jude Hill, Ali Khan

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

76%

Critics Consensus: A darker and spookier spin on Branagh's Poirot, A Haunting in Venice is a decent Halloween snack whose undemanding mystery gets a lift from nifty visuals and an all-star cast.

Reviews

Cultured Vultures

Hamish Calvert

A Haunting in Venice is short on any real spooks, but remains a satisfying and stylish murder mystery.

It's such a dull, stiffly rendered mystery that neither the who nor the what of the crime (a mare-dare!, as intoned by Poirot) registers, and even the Venice setting, potentially its chief asset, is wasted...

A Haunting in Venice knows exactly what it’s doing. More Christie, played by A-listers having fun in a cosy-as-a-cushion, teatime ITV-drama-on-the-big-screen way — catering for a cinema audience left behind by superheroes.

Other than Tina Fey adding a sporadic-dramatic pep to the proceedings, there is absolutely nothing worth your time in this cinematic barbiturate.

It's not so much that we figure things out early on; it's that we're not given enough reason to immerse in the gloomy game Poirot must play.

September 18, 2023

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