![]() The lone American in the house, she’s a mid-century Anna Nicole, and despite being the most obvious suspect, the only one in the house who appears to have any kind of heart. ![]() The MVP here is Christina Hendricks as Brenda, the deceased’s former-showgirl second wife. He goes from chamber to lavishly eccentric chamber, meeting the shotgun-toting sister of the victim’s late first wife (Glenn Close in total and delightful ham mode), his failed screenwriter son and his failed actress wife (a boozy, excellent Gillian Anderson), his emo grandson (Preston Nyman playing the evil-twin version of Timothée Chalamet’s character in Call Me by Your Name) and his young granddaughter Josephine, a murder-mystery aficionado who spends her days spying on her screwed-up family and keeping tabs on them in her diary. Leonides’s granddaughter Sophia (Stefanie Martini) hires her ex-fling and struggling private investigator Charles Hayward to look into the case before the law gets involved, and he travels to the estate, trying desperately to penetrate the weird, hermetic vibe at the Leonidas house. ![]() Murder on the Orient Express Is a Mild Rideĭirected with slightly sleepy, but entertainingly morbid style by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, the colorful ensemble piece opens with the death of tycoon Aristide Leonides, in what is first reported as a heart attack but revealed to be a poisoning. ![]()
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