US Edition'Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery' Is Irresistibly Smart and Cheeky
The third Knives Out film explores faith and logic through a church murder mystery and holds a 95% critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes, streaming on Netflix from Dec. 12.
- On Nov. 24, Rian Johnson's Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery opened in select theaters and will stream on Netflix on Dec. 12.
- Drawing on his upbringing, Rian Johnson drew on his Christian background and aimed for a respectful, non-mocking conversation about faith with Father Jud Duplenticy’s church setting.
- After Monsignor Jefferson Wicks is killed, the prime suspect is Father Jud Duplenticy, while parishioners including Martha Delacroix and Nat Sharp also face scrutiny.
- Reviewers note the film adds a poignant, faith-centered twist to the Knives Out franchise, with critics praising its emotional depth and ensemble roles.
- Positioned within Johnson's Knives Out series, Wake Up Dead Man includes meta acknowledgments of its mystery novel influences like John Dickson Carr's The Hollow Man, following Knives Out and Glass Onion .
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Wake Up Dead Man: Release date, plot news and trailer for Knives Out 3
On a cool winter night, there are few things better than snuggling up with a great murder mystery – and so the news that the third entry in Rian Johnson's Knives Out series is upon us could hardly come at a better time.Wake Up Dead Man sees Daniel Craig reprise the role of southern sleuth Benoit Blanc, and after previously solving the murder of a renowned novelist and tackling a mysterious case on a luxury private island, we can expect things to…
‘Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery’ review: Another entertaining whodunit
Moira Macdonald The Seattle Times (TNS) Good news for the holiday season: Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) is back, with both hair and accent appropriately shaggy. Rian Johnson’s Southern-flavored detective, who solved wickedly clever crimes previously in “Knives Out” and “Glass Onion,” returns for “Wake Up Dead Man,” a thoughtful if slightly overlong take on a classic Agatha Christie-type mystery: Somebody, in an atmosphere with drama and tension sw…
Wake Up Dead Man is less cozy than the previous Knives Out movies, and that's a good thing
Rian Johnson’s Knives Outmovies play great with a crowd. They’re crafted with the kind of attention to visual scheme and clever writing that rewards a big-screen experience. That said, they’re also an easy fit for Netflix’s stubbornly streaming-forward model — not because they look or act like TV movies (though television does have a rich whodunit history, as Johnson himself has tapped into with his Peacock series Poker Face) but because for so …
Rian Johnson on miracles, mystery and his own faith story in ‘Wake Up Dead Man’
(RNS) — The first two films of Rian Johnson’s Benoit Blanc mystery trilogy, “Knives Out” and “Glass Onion,” are masterfully twisty, broadly comic whodunits populated by tech billionaires, venal politicians, fashionistas and spoiled old-money family members. The latest, “Wake Up Dead Man,” examines the spiritual battle in contemporary American Christianity as well as one man’s personal struggle on the essence of faith itself. That man, the perso…
Rian Johnson on miracles, mystery and his own faith story in 'Wake Up Dead Man'
(RNS) — The first two films of Rian Johnson’s Benoit Blanc mystery trilogy, “Knives Out” and “Glass Onion,” are masterfully twisty, broadly comic whodunits populated by tech billionaires, venal politicians, fashionistas and spoiled old-money family members. The latest, “Wake Up Dead Man,” examines the spiritual battle in contemporary American Christianity as well as one man’s personal struggle on the essence of faith itself. That man, the perso…
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