Choking on stiff dialogue and even stiffer accents, this is one adaptation that would be best enjoyed as a book. As an ornate production to swallow up a cold, Sunday evening this movie might suffice, but this is no winter’s tale for the ages.

In their tepid romance, she’s never fatale enough and he only follows when he’s led.Īs a result, this period piece is neither arresting nor engrossing. Sadly the main roles of Max Iron’s Charles Haywood and Stefanie Martini’s fail to set the screen on fire. Also Terrence Stamp’s Chief Inspector Taverner is good value, injecting sarcasm into the most procedural of proceedings. Clipping her accent as keenly as the estate’s hedges, her matriarchal harridan is sly fun. That said, within the assembled cast, Glenn Close seems to be having fun. Each sharpening their own resentments in their private rooms, ‘Crooked House’s’ storyline takes you around the entire house, leaking tension with each new introduction.

The usual cross section of suspects that span both the ages and political divides have been assembled for our consideration. Shes also the most translated author in history, and her stage play The Mousetrap holds the world record for longest initial run. Described by the queen of mystery herself as one of her favorites of her published work, Crooked House is a classic Agatha Christie thriller revolving around a devastating family mystery. Agatha Christie is the best-selling fiction writer of all time, with more than 2 billion books sold. Feeling like an adaptation that has been overly faithful to its source material, ‘Agatha Christie’s Crooked House’ feels leaden and labyrinthine in its telling. Writing Crooked House was pure pleasure and I feel justified in my belief that it is one of my best.

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