Kenneth Branagh gives good Poirot, clumsy direction in `Murder on the Orient Express`
(LA Times Clippers)

In his withering 1950 essay `The Simple Art of Murder,` Raymond Chandler wrote that the solution to Agatha Christie´s `Murder on the Orient Express` was so far-fetched that `only a half-wit could guess it.` You can sort of see Chandler´s point even as he misses it entirely: The joys of reading...