'Knives Out,' Rian Johnson's updated take on the whodunit, is star-studded, twisty, and devilishly fun
shake the cobwebs off the whodunit genre and make it snap to stylish, wickedly entertaining life for a new generation. That’s what happens in, a mystery that takes the piss out of Agatha Christie clichés. Johnson has experience with a large cast . And he has a blast fooling us about who killed crime novelist Harlan Thrombey on his 85th birthday, his throat slit with a dagger by his side.
That’s the cue for suave Detective Benoit Blanc — love the name, love the Southern drawl and the devilry of who plays him — to round up the usual suspects at the author’s gothic country estate. Blanc, profiled in theas “The Last of the Gentlemen Sleuths,” doesn’t know who hired him. But he’s on the case and determined to get the facts. Craig looks delighted to be liberated from the shackles of cool that come with playing James Bond, and his joy in letting himself go in the role of the Blanc is contagious.
The detective’s suspicions falls first on Thrombey’s creepy, dysfunctional family, played by an all-star cast of shameless scene stealers. Jamie Lee Curtis is a scream as Linda, the daughter who gives an acid-tongued lashing to anyone in her line of fire, especially her skirt-chasing husband Richard . Michael Shannon puts on a meek act as Walt, the son who runs Thrombey’s publishing empire now that his controlling daddy is no more.
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