At an Academy Award voter screening of Wake Up Dead Man in New York City on Wednesday night, filmmaker Rian Johnson revealed to the audience that the idea for his third Benoit Blanc movie (or “Knives Out Mystery,” if he must grudgingly accept IP parlance) began with a question of faith. Given his own personal upbringing in Christian youth groups, he wanted to take a more serious bent than Glass Onion by using a murder mystery set within a small Catholic flock to examine what it means to not only be a good Christian, but to have compassion and charity. Grace.

Without giving too much away, Wake Up Dead Man is centered on one devout believer, Josh O’Connor as a young priest with Jason Miller’s right-hook, and a scathing skeptic embodied by Daniel Craig ’s Benoit Blanc. They dif

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