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Sep 2023
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Movie Review: A Haunting in Venice

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Kenneth Branagh returns for a third time as Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie’s mustachioed Belgian detective. This time around, he’s trying to prove that a medium supposedly communicating with the dead is a fraud. It’s harder than it seems in a story with a lot of darkly spiritual content. 

 

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