Storyline
When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth behind Harlan's untimely death.
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Daniel Craig, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Christopher Plummer, Chris Evans, Riki Lindhome, M. Emmet Walsh, Michael Shannon, Frank Oz, Toni Collette, Edi Patterson, Don Johnson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Noah Segan, Marlene Forte, Raúl Castillo, Lakeith Stanfield, Jaeden Lieberher, Ana de Armas, Paul Bellefeuille, K Callan, Rob Lévesque, Katherine Langford, Shyrley Rodriguez, Gabrielle Lorthe, Kerry Frances, Gary Tanguay, Octavia Chavez-Richmond, Ben Bunnag, Michael Burnell, Frankie Francois, Marcela Jaramillo, Paul Tawczynski
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100
The genre maestro has his audience in good hands, “good” in this instance meaning both “skilled, capable, expert” and “decent, ethically sound.” He’s assembled a dazzling contraption that, if twisted in just the right way, pops open to reveal a nugget of wisdom crystallized by the cathartic final shot: we only really own what we earn.
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A crackling, devious, and hugely satisfying old-school whodunnit with a modern twist ... Even if you do somehow manage to piece the whole thing together in advance, there’s no way of predicting the joy of watching it all unfold.
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Far from empty sleight-of-hand, Knives Out twists its borrowed, rearranged mechanics into a timely, sincere, and ultimately moving celebration of decency in the face of moral failure. To paraphrase one of Blanc’s funnier musings, that’s the donut within the donut hole.
90
A delicious throwback to the all-star whodunit, this juicy comedy thriller is a treat from start to finish.
88
Rian Johnson’s Knives Out is one of the most purely entertaining films in years. It is the work of a cinematic magician, one who keeps you so focused on what the left hand is doing that you miss the right. And, in this case, it’s not just a wildly fun mystery to unravel but a scathing bit of social commentary about where America is in 2019.
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