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Releasing on Sep 15, 2023
  • 2023
  • PG-13
  • Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
  • 1 h 43 m
  • 2023
  • PG-13
  • Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
  • 1 h 43 m
A Haunting in Venice

Summary In post-World War II Venice, Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh), now retired and living in self-imposed exile, reluctantly attends a seance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the former detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets. Based upon the novel Hallowe’en Party by Agatha Christie...

Directed By: Kenneth Branagh

Written By: Michael Green, Agatha Christie

  • 2023
  • PG-13
  • Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
  • 1 h 43 m
  • 2023
  • PG-13
  • Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
  • 1 h 43 m
A Haunting in Venice
Metascore Generally favorable Based on 33 Critic Reviews
62
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Summary In post-World War II Venice, Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh), now retired and living in self-imposed exile, reluctantly attends a seance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the former detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets. Based upon the novel Hallowe’en Party by Agatha Christie...

Directed By: Kenneth Branagh

Written By: Michael Green, Agatha Christie

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Generally favorable Based on 33 Critic Reviews
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61% Positive
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100
Sep 9, 2023
A Haunting in Venice is no downer. The script by Michael Green (“Logan,” “Blade Runner 2049”), who also wrote the first two Branagh Poirots, is at times ingenious, and he wrote a great part for Fey. As the mystery novelist Ariadne, a stand-in for Christie, she brings nice comic touches to a performance that threatens to steal the movie.
By G. Allen Johnson FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 9, 2023
Kenneth Branagh’s third Poirot film is his best and strangest yet.
By Siddhant Adlakha FULL REVIEW
70
Sep 13, 2023
Of the Poirot trilogy, A Haunting in Venice is undoubtedly the best crafted and most enjoyable film to watch.
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67
Sep 12, 2023
Poirot’s latest adventure may engender some brief happiness in audiences, but I’m not sure it will leave them fully satisfied.
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60
Sep 12, 2023
It may be too tame for horror fans, but the gothic twist works remarkably well — even if everything else is business as usual for the Belgian detective.
By Helen O'Hara FULL REVIEW
50
Sep 9, 2023
The new film is much pokier in its pacing, with duller characters. Despite some highlights, including Branagh in top form as an even more somber than usual Poirot, the film is watchable but it is also something lethal to a mystery: uninvolving.
By Caryn James FULL REVIEW
40
Sep 9, 2023
No amount of spooky jump-scares can save Kenneth Branagh’s latest Christie adaptation, which wastes its atmospheric setting and stellar cast.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW

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Production Company 20th Century Fox, 20th Century Studios, Kinberg Genre, Mestiere Cinema, Scott Free Productions, TSG Entertainment, The Mark Gordon Company
Release Date Sep 15, 2023
Duration 1 h 43 m
Rating PG-13
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Tagline Death is just the beginning
Website https://www.20thcenturystudios.com/movies/a-haunting-in-venice
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