Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) tackles his biggest mystery yet—the existence of God and the transcendent miracles He alone can produce—in Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, the third entry in Rian Johnson’s star-studded sleuthing series.
Predictably, the Almighty is no match for the peerless detective, whose newest case involves a small-town priest with a shady past who’s suspected of slaying his Monseigneur in a fashion that seems, to the unrivaled gumshoe, “impossible.”
Slightly downplaying its funniness in favor of ghostly gothic thrills and theological questions about faith, doubt, and absolution, the film—premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival ahead of its Nov. 26 theatrical release and Dec. 12 Netflix bow—is another intricate, rousing whodunit that maintains the