{"id":42371,"date":"2025-06-03T17:11:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T22:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=42371"},"modified":"2025-06-03T17:11:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T22:11:38","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-892","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/06\/03\/belated-movie-reviews-892\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Oh, not this old game again! It’s worse than<\/em> Hey, Pull My Finger Off!<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

Invitation to a Murder<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (2023) is somewhat like an Agatha Christie-authored mystery, as six people receive invitations to the house of one of the richest men in the world in the 1920s. They meet on a train to the location du jour<\/em>, but the focus is on Miranda Green, a florist whose eye for detail is almost unreal. But even she can’t see the connecting feature on these six.<\/p>\n

Before long we have our first corpse, and then a second – and my Arts Editor is shaking her head, proclaiming this to be an assemblage of worn-out tropes. But then, a member of the staff dies.<\/p>\n

And then we find out … well, that would be telling.<\/p>\n

In the end, it has some interesting twists, and Miss Green is not a fading flower, nor a woman with the agenda that an unmarried woman of the age might have had. No nonsense and virtually seeing around corners, she’s rather fun.<\/p>\n

But it does feel a bit labored, and the red herrings are really better when they’re not just thrown into a garbage can once deployed.<\/p>\n

But it was some fun while it lasted. Good effort. Vivid characters next time. If there is one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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