Kenneth Branagh gives good Poirot, clumsy direction in 'Murder on the Orient Express'
almost 8 years in LA Times
In his withering 1950 essay “The Simple Art of Murder,” Raymond Chandler wrote that the solution to Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Orient Express” was so far-fetched that “only a half-wit could guess it.” You can sort of see Chandler’s point even as he misses it entirely: The joys of reading...