A Haunting In Venice

  • Kenneth Branagh, Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Dornan
  • Kenneth Branagh
  • September 15th 2023
In post-World War II Venice, Poirot, now retired and living in his own exile, reluctantly attends a seance, when one of the guests is murdered, it is up to the former detective to once again uncover the killer.

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A Haunting in Venice

Verdict: An impressive cast and spooky vibes cannot make up for a narrative slog

  • Kenneth Branagh, Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Dornan
  • September 15th 2023
  • Kenneth Branagh

Kenneth Branagh returns as famed Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in this loose adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Halloween Party.

After Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile, Kenneth Branagh is back as Hercule Poirot in A Haunting in Venice.

The spooky murder mystery, very loosely based on Agatha Christie’s novel Halloween Party, is set 10 years after the events of Death on the Nile. The year is 1947 and Poirot (Branagh) is now retired from being a private detective.

However, he gets lured out of retirement by his crime novelist friend Ariadne Oliver (Tina Fey) who asks him to attend a séance with her at a haunted palazzo to debunk the famed psychic Joyce Reynolds (Michelle Yeoh).

When somebody dies during the séance, Poirot has to dust off his sleuthing skills to find out who did it.

But it’s not your typical case – Poirot starts to see and hear things in the palazzo, which was once an orphanage where many children died. The guests think “the children’s vendetta” is to blame for the death, but Poirot is confident the culprit...

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