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Murder on the Orient Express

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United Kingdom · 1974
Rated PG · 2h 8m
Director Sidney Lumet
Starring Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Martin Balsam, Ingrid Bergman
Genre Drama, Mystery, Thriller

In the winter of 1935, when his train is stranded in the snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred the night before. His fellow passengers are all suspects and the train itself is the scene of the crime.

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75

TV Guide Magazine by

Elegant and stylish in the best Agatha Christie tradition--a thoroughly entertaining if poky whodunit.

10

Village Voice by Andrew Sarris

Murder on the Orient Express falls down so badly as escapist entertainment that it is as if it were designed to prove the proposition that movies and mysteries don't mix.

80

Empire by Ian Nathan

No matter how good the performer you can’t escape Christie’s leisurely approach to characterisation — simple concoctions of quirk, guilt and red herring. But Lumet is having loads of credible fun with the formula, keeping up a genuine sense of claustrophobia in this isolated railway car surrounded by crisp white snow.

60

The New Yorker by Pauline Kael

This all-star version of an Agatha Christie antiquity promises to be a sumptuous spread, and so it is, but not as tasty as one had hoped.

75

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

Murder on the Orient Express is a splendidly entertaining movie of the sort that isn’t made anymore: It’s a classical whodunit, with all the clues planted and all of them visible, and it’s peopled with a large and expensive collection of stars.

90

The New York Times by Vincent Canby

Like the lovely, extravagantly overemphasized nineteen-thirties' costumes and production designed by Tony Walton, Murder on the Orient Express is much less a literal re-creation of a type of thirties movie than an elaborate and witty tribute that never for a moment condescends to the subject.

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