Director Pascal Bonitzer [treats] the material with assurance, familiarity, even a little irreverence. For example, he has no problem with slashing the all-important Christie detective Hercule Poirot from the story, making do instead with a sour-faced French policeman with minimal lines. Neither does he care to put too much emphasis on the detecting: Despite its title, Le Grand Alibi has very little to do with alibis and a lot more to do with feverish summer weekends, jealousy, infidelity and murder by the pool. Yum. — Kaori Shoji