This is a capably envisioned picture, one of the few worthy remakes based on a classic.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 6, 2023

Even without comparisons to previous iterations, it's difficult to appreciate the ludicrous twist that Branagh has inserted into this remake's final act.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Nov 27, 2020

Branagh shrewdly stages much of the escalating second-act violence by having the men violate each other's personal space.

| May 26, 2020

While Caine is, without any doubt, absolutely the best thing in this Sleuth, as the film is entirely without purpose, so is his performance.

| Aug 22, 2018

It requires a light touch; I admire Branagh a great deal, but not for his light touch.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 14, 2009

Idly plotted then tempered by a blunt ending. All of a sudden the viewer is left pondering 'eh?' as Pinter apparently run out of room on his pad.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 26, 2009

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Pinter's pauses, and the dour air of so much of the interplay, just don't fit on a story that's this slight.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 1, 2008

Once the homosexual subtext is brought to the surface, everything seems to be a joke. Are they gay, kidding, or just considering?

Full Review | Apr 10, 2008

Fans of the original should stay away.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 19, 2008

The script includes a verbal motif that reminds us of what binds the film's four central talents together: 'I want to show you something.' [Blu-Ray review]

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 10, 2008

What this Sleuth lacks in enthusiasm it makes up in character-driven menace.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 4, 2008

Despite Branagh's every attempt to capitalise on the intimacy of the cinematic medium with (intrusive) close-ups, the direction is heavy handed; the result being a dramatic, but emotionally cold experience

| Mar 1, 2008

Goofy art house tendencies (including an ill-thought dalliance with homo-eroticism) trigger a few giggles, yet the clever, crisply-acted power struggle seizes your attention

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 22, 2008

Director Kenneth Branagh has mercifully pared the action down to 88 minutes (the first movie dragged on for 138), but the final act... still seems to go on forever.

| Dec 14, 2007

What Pinter and Branagh present is a much more wicked, cold, disturbing film that is even more confined than the original.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 12, 2007

Seems to me that the Kenneth Branagh-Harold Pinter Sleuth is a pretty good movie. It just isn't a very good Sleuth, exactly.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 7, 2007

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 7, 2007

By the time the film ends on a flat note, it is long past the point of failing to effectively showcase a meeting of minds between two great actors.

| Dec 1, 2007

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 1, 2007