Film
Knives Out (12A)
Dir. Rian Johnson, US, 2019, 130 mins. Cast. Ana de Armas, Toni Collette, Daniel Craig, Jamie Lee Curtis, Christopher Plummer.
Murder mystery novelist Harlan Thrombey is a veritable one-man crime-fiction industry and his adult children have been living off him for years. When he turns up dead, the apparent victim of a murder, it seems that no-one has a motive for killing the golden goose. But Benoit Blanc (Craig), the debonair ‘Kentucky-fried’ private investigator mysteriously hired by an anonymous source, has other ideas. With a superb cast at their arch best this is impeccably written and designed, full of unexpected twists and turns from start to finish. Rian Johnson does for the murder caper what he did with Brick for noir and Looper for science fiction. He injects them with fresh magic and shows you whole new ways of looking at a beloved genre. Knives Out is a classic whodunit and as sharp as the blade that killed the patriarch at the heart of the film.
Murder mystery novelist Harlan Thrombey is a veritable one-man crime-fiction industry and his adult children have been living off him for years. When he turns up dead, the apparent victim of a murder, it seems that no-one has a motive for killing the golden goose. But Benoit Blanc (Craig), the debonair ‘Kentucky-fried’ private investigator mysteriously hired by an anonymous source, has other ideas. With a superb cast at their arch best this is impeccably written and designed, full of unexpected twists and turns from start to finish. Rian Johnson does for the murder caper what he did with Brick for noir and Looper for science fiction. He injects them with fresh magic and shows you whole new ways of looking at a beloved genre. Knives Out is a classic whodunit and as sharp as the blade that killed the patriarch at the heart of the film.