Rian Johnson’s latest whodunnit is smart and stylish, but the characters and the pacing are disappointing.

Knives Out is smart, endlessly entertaining, and original. The story and the cast are perfect. If you’re looking for a fun murder mystery thriller, this is it.

A cold mess of rubbish plotting and bizarre cinematography. It wastes its source material and bumbles through the snow before falling through the ice.

Murder on the Orient Express is too besotted with its lead actor and overwhelmed with its source material to look at either without rose-tinted glasses. It tries too hard, and the cast are lost in a showy script.