Sentences with phrase «murdered in a locked room»

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Working from a brilliant screenplay by Steven Zaillian, Fincher's take on the story focuses more on what I've come to understand is really a classic locked room mystery in the Agatha Christie mode — in the case of the murder / disappearance of Harriet Vanger, the locked room is an island whose sole entry point is blocked by an overturned tanker truck — that is concealed within a study of unlimited misogyny and sidetracked into the discovery of a serial killer.

Shot on 65 mm, the new adaptation of Agatha Christie's classic Murder On The Orient Express is diverting and glitzy; one should expect no less from a locked - room mystery set on board a luxury train in the mid-1930s.