Jack and I enjoyed this meta murder mystery that takes place during the 1953 London long-running stage production of the murder mystery, The Mousetrap. With its many nods to Agatha Christie (who wrote The Mousetrap novel), it features Sam Rockwell with a slight English accent as Inspector Stoppard, Saorise Ronan as eager rookie Constable Stalker, Adrien Brody as annoying Hollywood director Kopernick, and David Oyelowo as the screenwriter, among others.
Tom George directs from the script by Mark Chappell and Daniel Pemberton's jaunty score can be streamed on Apple Music and, no doubt, elsewhere.
Rockwell was last blogged for The Best of Enemies, Ronan for Little Women, Brody for The French Dispatch, Oyelowo for The Midnight Sky, and Pemberton for Being the Ricardos
This is George's feature directing debut after some television and Chappell's second feature screenplay, also after TV–I loved the series Flaked that Chappell created and wrote most.
Rotten Tomatoes' critics and audiences are but trotting with middling averages of 75 and 69%, respectively. We liked it better than that and watched it on HBO Max November 11.
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