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Matthew Rhys’s Frown Lights Up Towards Zero

An otherwise by-the-numbers Agatha Christie adaptation gets a welcome jolt of grumpy energy whenever he shuffles onscreen.

Set in 1936, Towards Zero takes place at the clifftop estate Gull’s Point, familial home of Lady Tressilian (Anjelica Huston) and her nephew, tennis star Nevile Strange (Oliver Jackson-Cohen). The Saltcreek village is remote and the water surrounding it unpredictable, full of riptides and strange currents; years before, Lady Tressilian watched from her window as her husband’s ship went down, and she hasn’t left her bedroom since. Left to sort out what happened and why are Lady Tressilian’s lawyer, Mr. Treves (Clarke Peters); his teen ward, the observant and sticky-fingered Sylvia (Grace Doherty); and local Inspector Leach (Rhys).

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