Even if “Ready Or Not” isn’t quite as clever as “Knives Out”, they would make a fascinating and fun double-bill
RIAN JOHNSON is a writer-director who delights in toying with pulp genres, whether his budgets are low , high or very high indeed . His new film, “Knives Out”, is an ingenious and stylish whodunnit which harks back to the Agatha Christie novels of the 1920s and 1930s, but which makes shrewd points about the rich in 2019. It is one of the year’s most political films as well as one of its most enjoyable.
Enter Benoit Blanc , a consulting detective with a love of big cigars and florid phrases—and a Southern drawl even more luxuriant than the one Mr Craig deployed in Steven Soderbergh’s “Logan Lucky”. As he interviews the suspects, “Knives Out” flashes back to the evening of the party, and shows how everyone’s accounts match up, or don’t.
It is not the only new genre movie to be set in a country house, nor the only one to comment on the entitled American family within that house’s imposing walls. “Ready Or Not” , a terrific horror-comedy, stars Samara Weaving as Grace, a young woman who marries into the wealthy Le Domas clan, but isn’t blue-blooded enough to please her new in-laws .
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