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The Kid Detective is a mystery worth solving | Video Review

January 20, 2021 by EJ Moreno

The Kid Detective, 2020.

Directed by Evan Morgan.
Starring Adam Brody, Peter MacNeill, Maurice Dean Wint, Kaitlyn Chalmers-Rizzato, Sarah Sutherland, Wendy Crewson, Jonathan Whittaker, Sophie Nélisse, Tzi Ma, Amalia Williamson, Jesse Noah Gruman, Marcus Zane, Lisa Truong, Sharon Crandall, Sophia Webster, Kira Gelineau, Dallas Edwards, Avery Esteves, and Bethanie Ho.

The Kid Detective, starring The OC and Ready or Not’s Adam Brody, is a surprisingly engaging and entertaining mystery film. Join our critic EJ Moreno as he reviews Evan Morgan’s feature film debut. With enough comedy and mystery to keep you hooked, it makes it easy to make it to the shocking final act of this film.

Watch the review below, and be sure to head on over to our YouTube channel for more videos and exclusive content…

A once-celebrated kid detective, now 32, continues to solve the same trivial mysteries between hangovers and bouts of self-pity. Until a naive client brings him his first ‘adult’ case, to find out who brutally murdered her boyfriend.

 

Filed Under: EJ Moreno, Flickering Myth TV, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: Adam Brody, Evan Morgan, Sarah Sutherland, Sophie Nélisse, The Kid Detective

About EJ Moreno

EJ Moreno is a film and television critic and entertainment writer who joined the pop culture website Flickering Myth in 2018 and now serves as the executive producer of Flickering Myth TV, a YouTube channel with over 27,000 subscribers. With over a decade of experience, he is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic who is also part of the Critics Choice Association and GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics.

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