Knives Out

Daniel Craig is a hoot as debonair southern detective Benoit Blanc, called in to unravel the mysterious death of veteran crime writer Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer). As is so often the case in whodunnits, Harlan’s inheritance furnishes his entire extended family with ample motive, and this dyspeptic brood provides Blanc with a rainbow of murder suspects, including Chris Evans, Toni Colette, Jamie Lee Curtis and Michael Shannon.

Johnson takes a form that’s about as pliable as a board game and has a good deal of fun turning it inside out and upside down, simply by relocating it to a place where the personal has never been more political: Trumpian America. Agatha Christie would have thoroughly approved.

An entertainment that’s as smart, witty, stylish and exhilarating as any movie lover could wish for.

Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal

Knives Out is a whole lot of fun, intended to keep the audience off-balance right up until the finish. It’s a razor-sharp throwback from writer-director Rian Johnson.

Brian Lowry, CNN.com

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