![]() ![]() 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. She crafted these stories so painstakingly with such detail and precision. ![]() Talking about Agatha Christie, Max said: Agatha Christie’s work has really stood the test of time. 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. In Crooked House Max plays Charles Hayward, Sophia Leonides one-time lover and private investigator with links to Scotland Yard. ![]() The usual cross section of suspects that span both the ages and political divides have been assembled for our consideration. 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. ![]()
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