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‘See How They Run’: Meta mystery builds a sillier ‘Mousetrap’

Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan have a grand time as Scotland Yard gumshoes investigating a murder at Agatha Christie’s play.

Chicago Sun-Times

Review: 'See How They Run' is a breezy, clever whodunit

One question to ask when evaluating a movie is: Who is it for? The answer for "See How They Run" seems to be: Chris Hewitt.

Tribune News Service

‘Feminist icon’ Miss Marple returns in 12 new authorised mystery stories

Agatha Christie’s detective faces a dozen fresh cases in newly commissioned work by authors including Val McDermid, Dreda Say Mitchell, Kate Mosse and Natalie Haynes

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The real mystery in See How They Run is its mishandling of The Mousetrap

The whodunnit starring Saoirse Ronan is a fun spoof but tinkers with history and never captures the unique way Agatha Christie’s play fascinated audiences in the 50s

The Guardian - UK

Why making 'Glass Onion' scared Rian Johnson even more than 'The Last Jedi'

One of the undisputed hits of this year's Toronto International Film Festival has been writer-director Rian Johnson's "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery."

Los Angeles Times

Abandoned dogs are being read books in kennels to help them sleep at night

Volunteers have been turning up to the RSPCA's Stubbington Ark Animal Centre in Fareham, Hants, to read storybooks to the dogs waiting to be placed in their forever homes

Daily Mirror

‘See How They Run’ review: Why are newer Agatha Christie-style whodunits afraid to take the genre seriously?

A murder at a country manor kicks off the Agatha Christie play “The Mousetrap,” and a murder backstage after a London performance of said play kicks off the comedy whodunit “See How They Run.” It stars Sam Rockwell as a veteran and indolent police detective who is reluctantly paired with…

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Laurie Hertzel: Readers suggest ways to climb out of book slump

I should not worry so much, because reading slumps come and go. But every time one comes, I worry that it won't ever go. What if I've permanently lost my ability to concentrate? This is certainly possible, in this age of ever-distracting social media.

Tribune News Service

See How They Run review – a starry, theatrical Agatha Christie romp

Christie’s The Mousetrap inspires Tom George’s fun whodunnit meta-spoof, with Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan making a fine comic double act

The Guardian - UK

Despite powerhouse cast, ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ lumbers along at snail’s pace

Agatha Christie’s classic murder mystery succumbs to slow-paced adaptation at Drury Lane Theatre.

Chicago Sun-Times

Murder most meta: how the whodunnit became unpredictable

From See How They Run to Only Murders in the Building, the blueprint for murder mysteries has become anything but formulaic

Evening Standard

See How They Run review: Playful Agatha Christie romp is as sweet and light as a fondant fancy

Saoirse Ronan comes out on top in an ensemble comedy awash in giddy, well-intentioned fun

The Independent UK

See How They Run review – Agatha Christie spoof scampers through 50s theatreland

This likable whodunnit comedy sees Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan on the trail of high-camp crime in the original production of The Mousetrap

The Guardian - UK

Our pick of some of the best book to film and TV adaptations, from Pachinko to Dune

There have been hundreds of wonderful screen adaptations. These are some of our favourites

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Marie Claire

The 40 Greatest Murder Mystery Movies

Complete with more than a few twist endings.

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: a cruise-ship murderer is unmasked in Agatha Christie’s Hjerson

Sven Hjerson is on the case in this quirky comedy-drama. Plus: Have I Got News for You bids farewell to Boris Johnson. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Agatha Christie by Lucy Worsley review – in search of the elusive author

The historian shines a light on the modernity of Christie’s crime fiction and debunks the myths surrounding her disappearance

The Independent UK

Author Val McDermid claims Agatha Christie’s estate has warned her over ‘Queen of Crime’ title

Scottish crime writer has called correspondence from Christie’s estate ‘astonishingly pitiful’

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‘It’s almost like a soap’: Saoirse Ronan and David Oyelowo on how the whodunnit rose from the dead

See How They Run, Tom George’s tongue-in-cheek murder mystery, is riding high on the genre’s new wave. Its director and stars discuss the rich history of the format – and why it always returns in trying times

Evening Standard

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery trailer with Daniel Craig released ‒ plot, cast, and release date

The game is afoot

Daily Mirror

Original Orient Express to travel again in 2024 - everything you need to know

The Orient Express, which was featured in the iconic Agatha Christie murder mystery, is being prepared for travel one more, after its maiden journey from Paris, France to Istanbul, Turkey in 1883

Daily Mirror

Mystery of Tamil Tiger found dead in UK seaside hotel likened to Agatha Christie tale

Why he ended up in the Devon seafront hotel where Agatha Christie spent her wedding night and why he apparently ended his life there has never been established

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: George Clooney and Laura Linney play Hollywood’s golden couple

The two stars voice Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward in a curious documentary. Plus: more subterfuge in The Secrets She Keeps. Here’s everything to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Licorice Pizza to Galaxy Quest: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Paul Thomas Anderson presents a chaste, discomfiting age-gap romance that’s packed with 70’s nostalgia, while Alan Rickman and Sigourney Weaver lead an all star cast in a 90s sci-fi parody

Daily Mirror

Sons of 'Mousetrap' and Z-Cars actor win £312k inheritance fight against live-in carer

Screen and stage actor Peter Bridgmont left everything to his live-in carer when he died aged 90 in 2019 - against the wishes of his late wife

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