‘See How They Run’ (Barely) Keeps Murder Mysteries Alive

There’s something wonderful about the whodunnit revival, even if it’s just in its nascent stage.

Rian Johnson, making amends for sinking the U.S.S. “Star Wars” with “The Last Jedi,” gave us a giddy mystery franchise via “Knives Out.” Two recent Agatha Christie remakes kept the movement alive.

“See How They Run” hopes to keep that zeitgeist going.

Not so fast.

Sly and slight, the meta mystery offers some chuckles and the sublime Saoirse Ronan, but otherwise can’t give the whodunnit craze the rocket fuel it deserves.

Ronan and Sam Rockwell star as Constable Stalker and Inspector Stoppard, tasked with solving a murder on London’s West End circa 1953. The director of the upcoming Christie adaptation, “The Mousetrap,” ends up dead and “staged” in the...

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