The Knives Out franchise has certainly grown over the last three films. Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery takes its inspiration from G.K. Chesterton’s Father Brown mysteries. It’s a bit darker than the first two movies — Knives Out and Glass Onion — but even as its focus turns towards religion and the perspectives of two very different priests, Monsignor Wicks (Josh Brolin) and Father Jud (Josh O’Connor), the film still centers on the theme of greed, with discussions of faith woven in.

Writer-director Rian Johnson moves away from Agatha Christie and into more of Edgar Alan Poe, but it’s the weakest of the three Knives Out movies. Though there’s a new group of characters, all with their own motives for killing Wicks, who’s much more of an asshole than Jud, despite th

See Full Page