Plemons plays the role with the perfect mix of understated menace that wrings humor out of every awkward interaction.

The film also had the endorsement of Christie herself, who famously disliked most adaptations of her work.

Backwards and forwardsMementois a mystery worth exploring.

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Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams as Max and Annie, looking up while laying on the ground in Game Night

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Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc standing in front of a wall full of knives in Knives-Out

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Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes sitting and looking pensive in The Hound of the Baskervilles.

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The cast in period costumes sit in a train car with tension in the air in Murder on the Orient Express, 1974.

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Kevin Costner Discussing the Magic Bullet in ‘JFK’

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Naomi Watts and Laura Harring sitting in ‘Mulholland Drive’

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Paul Avery (Robert Downey Jr.) and Robert Graysmith (Jake Gyllenhaal) looking intently ahead in an office in David Fincher’s ‘Zodiac’ (2007).

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Kim Novak standing under a bridge in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo

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