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While Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) returns for the Knives Out sequel, the rest of the cast are all new — and rise to the occasion.

Review: Murder mystery peels back layers of genre

By Patrick Mazzella, Staff Writer • December 7, 2022
The sequel to the smash hit "Knives Out" delivers, with Rian Johnson crafting a grand, hilarious mystery that does not fall into the same tropes.
Inspector Stoppard (Sam Rockwell) and Constable Stalker (Saoirse Ronan) investigate a murder in See How They Run.

Review: Entertaining murder mystery falls into old tropes

By Patrick Mazzella, Contributing Writer • September 27, 2022
While "See How They Run" makes fun of murder mystery tropes, resulting in many laughs, the film unfortunately plays into those same tropes.
“Murder on the Orient Express” is the fourth adaptation of the classic Agatha Christie mystery of the same name. The star-studded cast includes Kenneth Branaugh as master detective Hercule Poirot and Johnny Depp as duplicitous ganster, Edward Ratchett. Ratchett is murdered aboard the Orient Express and it’s up to Hercule to narrow down the list of subjects and find the killer.

Review: Stellar visuals keep classic murder mystery on track

By Antonio Ferme, Staff Writer • November 14, 2017
Every time Poirot is on screen, it is evident that Branagh is having a ball with the eccentric nature and colorful personality of Poirot’s character.
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