US EditionWake Up Dead Man Review – Holy Whodunit Is the Best Daniel Craig Knives Out Yet
Detective Benoit Blanc probes a seemingly impossible murder tied to harsh parish leadership and hidden secrets, revealing complex motives rooted in faith and conflict.
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<em>Wake Up Dead Man</em>: Murder on the Church Floor
I don’t know whether to call Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery a Christian film. It’s about Christianity, at any rate. We learn that Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) was raised in a deeply religious home, and that upbringing has made him vehemently opposed to all religions. The film does not end (or even middle) with him falling to his knees and finding God, but the murder case he takes on does make him reckon with the power of religious faith a…
First at the cinema, then at Netflix. In the third "Knives Out" crime Daniel Craig finds out as Benoit Blanc in a small town. There members of a religious church community have dark secrets.
After Puñales in the back (2019) and Puñales in the back: The mystery of Glass Onion (2022) reaches cinemas, in a limited way, the third installment of the mystery saga. Puñales in the back: From the dead demonstrates, on the one hand, that Rian Johnson remains in love with the genre and on the other that he has no interest in repeating formula, no matter how much more than the lead thread, our insightful and peculiar Benoit Blanc remains as a p…
‘Wake Up Dead Man’ Review: Rian Johnson’s Latest Puzzlebox Takes Benoit Blanc to Church on an Unholy Whodunit [A-]
The latest whodunit from writer-director Rian Johnson, Wake Up Dead Man, starts with a confession; not one of guilt or sin, but of absolute truth. Written and told from his perspective, we are introduced to Rev. Jud Duplenticy (Josh O’Connor), a new priest to the parish of Our Lady of Perpetual Fortitude in the tiny town…
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