Rotten
Director Kenneth Branagh has mercifully pared the action down to 88 minutes (the first movie dragged on for 138), but the final act... still seems to go on forever.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
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Sleuth
Overview
Locked in a high-tech English manor, bound in a deadly duel of wits, Andrew Wyke and Milo Tindle come together as English gentlemen to discuss the matter of Wyke's wife: the woman both are sleeping with.
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Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
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36%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Kenneth Branagh's direction, its self-consciously skewed angles and surveillance-cam cutaways highlighting his weakness for the misplaced flourish, is more of a hindrance than a help.
Trevor Johnston, Time Out
Rotten
Director Kenneth Branagh clearly is having fun navigating Tim Harvey's slick set design, but eventually the characters' deadly competitiveness becomes tedious.
Sean Means, Film.com
Rotten
It doesnt work, and the reasons why are no mystery, no mystery at all.
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
Fresh
This film wants only to entertain, and other talents have gathered with Pinter to help.
Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic
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