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Death on the Nile offers gorgeous visuals and a stacked (if not troubled) cast, making for another flashy Agatha Christie adaptation from the director and star.

Death on the Nile has finally sailed into cinemas, but who is the killer and why? Let's delve into Death on the Nile's ending and book changes.

Mystery writer supreme Agatha Christie was blessed with many literary ingenuities, but one of the more disarmingly effective was her skill in developing what authorities might call motive. Her robust characters, no matter how smooth they were in public, always had darker crevices and trapdoors in their psyches, jealousies, fears, and furies, that her most famous protagonist, the world-renowned detective Hercule Poirot, could ferret out despite their best efforts to keep them hidden. One of the chief pleasures of reading Christie has to do with the inescapable finger-traps with which Poirot ens...

Film Critic Josh Board gives this one 4 out of 5 stars

Kenneth Branagh returns in Agatha Christie's "Death On The Nile," which opens on February 11, in which he stars, directs, and produces.