Sleuth

UK 1972, 138 minutes
Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Rating: [M]
Genres: Suspense/Crime, Comedy

Aroview: A supremely cunning, self-reflexive mystery satire based on the hit West End play, with Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine as affable intellectual dandies of different classes who enter into a battle of elaborate gamesmanship after Olivier discovers Caine's affair with his wife.

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3 stars (Good Enough) Clever but stagy, this twisty tail is an actor's showcase in which Caine easily upstages the hammy Olivier. The over-stuffed production design by Ken Adam is distracting. ~Pearce
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4 stars (Very Good) For a cast of two to hold one's attention for over two hours requires good writing and performances. ~Tubbs