How can Sleuth (Sony Pictures Classics, 10.12) not be good with Michael Caine starring in a Harold Pinter rewrite of Anthony Schaffer‘s very clever (at times delicious) hit play? If Kenneth Branagh isn’t renowned as a great director, he’s certainly a proficient one, and Jude Law — inhabiting the young-cad role that Caine played in the 1972 version opposite Laurence Olivier — will be fine. This movie can’t be a problem…it can’t. Here‘s the trailer.
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Michael Caine, Jude Law
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