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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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…
'Wake Up Dead Man' review: The best 'Knives Out' mystery yet
Master detective Benoit Blanc is back for his most satisfying case yet in "Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery," the third film in the successful whodunit franchise, and Hollywood's best modern approximation of an old-school Agatha Christie murder…
Review: 'Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery' is a witty, soulful satire of pulpit power
"Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery," Rian Johnson's darkest, funniest and best installment yet in his three-film detective series, takes place in a church stunned by two sins. The first is murder. The second is theft: The franchise's…
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