Film Pick: Murder on the Orient Express

The David Suchet version may be perfect, but its TV limitations can’t compete with this handsomely-mounted chunk of luxury, packed to the gills with Oscar-winners and Kenneth Branagh’s audacious take on Poirot’s ‘stache. It all works far better than it should, from the narrative tweaks to the generous and careful apportioning of a big moment to everybody. And if you’re used to Suchet, Branagh’s more world-weary Poirot does feel fresh, even if his accent occasionally wonders into ’Allo ‘Allo-land. Firmly in the tradition of the 1971 iteration that featured everyone from Lauren Bacall to Sean Connery, the ludicrously stacked cast would be watchable doing a table-read ofNeighbours. Times