Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

With his third “Knives Out” film, Rian Johnson has seamlessly crafted another murder mystery with even more delicious twists and turns than the previous two installments.

In the world of Knives Out, it’s a matter of both faith and entertainment, and it’s easy to get ecstatic about both.

You can feel Johnson’s exhaustive knowledge of genre bursting at the seams, but I don’t know that that’s an excuse for making a movie that feels so fatiguing.

...a wealth of fun to be had in ways that are constantly surprising, a franchise fully woken up.

...it satisfies by playing along with genre expectations instead of trying to outsmart them.