Sleuth (2007)

3/5

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08/07/08

2/5

Pinter's pauses, and the dour air of so much of the interplay, just don't fit on a story that's this slight.

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05/01/08

N/A

Once the homosexual subtext is brought to the surface, everything seems to be a joke. Are they gay, kidding, or just considering?

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04/10/08

2.5/5

Fans of the original should stay away.

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03/19/08

3/4

The script includes a verbal motif that reminds us of what binds the film's four central talents together: 'I want to show you something.' [Blu-Ray review]

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03/10/08

3/5

What this Sleuth lacks in enthusiasm it makes up in character-driven menace.

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03/04/08

N/A

Despite Branagh's every attempt to capitalise on the intimacy of the cinematic medium with (intrusive) close-ups, the direction is heavy handed; the result being a dramatic, but emotionally cold experience

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03/01/08

4/5

What Pinter and Branagh present is a much more wicked, cold, disturbing film that is even more confined than the original.

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12/12/07

3/4

Seems to me that the Kenneth Branagh-Harold Pinter Sleuth is a pretty good movie. It just isn't a very good Sleuth, exactly.

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12/07/07

N/A

By the time the film ends on a flat note, it is long past the point of failing to effectively showcase a meeting of minds between two great actors.

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12/01/07

3/5

Whether you like the film probably depends on whether you can treat it all as seriously as Pinter and Branagh. If you can't, this short, brackish piece will not work at all, even if you don't regard it as a piece of piss.

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11/23/07

1/5

A Dead Film Walking, a zombie of a film, a shuffling Frankenstein's monster of a film, leaking electricity from its badly-fitting neck bolts, tragically whimpering at the pointless agony of its own brief existence.

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11/23/07

3/5

This is the kind of intimate physicality that Pinter pumps into Shaffer’s script. But it will take a better director than Branagh to tease it into the real world.

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11/23/07

2.5/5

A bold, initially fascinating but ultimately misguided attempt to 'Pinter-ize' an old-fashioned puzzle. Great mysteries leave their audience marveling 'how did they do that?' Sleuth 2007 leaves you scratching your head, wondering why they bothered.

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11/23/07

3/5

Caine and Law rustle up a spicy chemistry which sustains a sizzle for an hour or so. But the second half panders to Pinter’s self-indulgence, unravelling Branagh’s high-tensile head-fuck as a hollow skirmish.

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11/23/07