TIFF 2025 Review: ‘Knives Out’ Takes on a Locked Room Mystery in ‘Wake Up Dead Man’

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Father Judd (Josh O’Connor) is a good man. After a minor slip-up, he is assigned to be the second-in-command of a shrinking parish headed by Monsignor Wicks (Josh Brolin), a firebrand of the pulpit who spews hate and division to a coterie of loyal devotees. Soon, someone is dead in what seems to be an impossible crime, and who else should be called in to investigate but the one and only Benoit Blanc?

The third addition to Rian Johnson’s Knives Out series is further proof that the director is both a skilled filmmaker and puzzle nerd who knows crime fiction like the back of his hand. Where the first movie borrowed from cosy mysteries and the second was a blow-out vac

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