[Director Andy Goddard] just doesn't develop a level of intrigue or tension that you'd expect from a narrative that is built on double identities, perceptions, classism, and homicide.

A handsome period piece that plays more like a scant-clues mystery than like the psychological thriller it intends to be.

Good source material does not guarantee a good movie, and A Kind of Murder, a new Highsmith adaptation directed by Andy Goddard from a screenplay by Susan Boyd, is not a good movie.

There were moments of such monumental airlessness, as if a plastic sofa cover was wrapped over every scene