Movie review: Death on the Nile is stylish but more melodramatic than expected

Two hours isn’t an overly long running time for a feature-length film about Poirot, but the issue here is how Kenneth Branagh chooses to spend that time

Death on the Nile

★★★☆☆

Pyramids, riverboats, the broad, majestic Nile: Kenneth Branagh’s Death on the Nile (12A), adapted from one of Agatha Christie’s best-known mystery novels, is a sumptuous affair.