Movie Review: Knives Out - Rian Johnson again shows his willingness to tinker with genres he loves.
Johnson’s latest starts out in classic who-dunnit fashion—acclaimed mystery writer Harlan Thrombey is found dead by apparent suicide the night after gathering his family together and delivering a series of unpopular messages. Enter the local police and eccentrically mannered private detective Benoit Blanc . Suspects are interrogated. Secrets are revealed.
Then, right as the viewer is gearing up to lay some Sherlock Holmes/Hercule Poirot/Encyclopedia Brown-level discernment on all this, Johnson reveals what happened to the elder Thrombey. This flips the entire experience for the viewer, as they go from trying to figure out what happened to wondering if the truth will be discovered. , Johnson shows both a reverence for and a willingness to tinker with the tropes and formula underpinning his story.
Johnson is aided in his efforts by a uniformly excellent cast of past, present and future movie headliners. The Thrombey brood and brood-in-laws include Jamie Lee Curtis,, Don Johnson, Toni Collette and Chris Evans. At the center of it all is the deceased patriarch’s nurse, Marta and her own eccentric character trait—an inability to lie without puking. If the rest of the cast provides fuel for the film, de Armas’ Marta and Craig’s Blanc are the engine.
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