In this third entry in the wildly entertaining, ever-evolving Knives Out series, Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) decamps to a quaint New England town to delve into a decidedly Gothic-tinged whodunnit centred on a local church and its eccentric parishioners. What is a rationalist like Blanc to do when investigating a locked-room murder case in which divine intervention appears to be the prime suspect? Why, take on a local priest (Josh O’Connor) as his partner, of course.
Drawing inspiration from both Edgar Allan Poe’s The Murders in the Rue Morgue and G.K. Chesterton’s Father Brown mysteries, writer-director Rian Johnson once again demonstrates his mastery of the mystery genre as he leads Blanc through a labyrinth of deception and towards some surprisingly personal revelations.
Daniel Craig, Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner
USA
2025
English
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Credits & Director
Executive Producer
Tom Karnowski
Producer
Ram Bergman, Rian Johnson
Screenwriter
Rian Johnson
Cinematography
Steve Yedlin
Editor
Bob Ducsay
Production Design
Rick Heinrichs
Original Music
Nathan Johnson
Rian Johnson
Filmography: Brick (2005); The Brothers Bloom (2008); Looper (2012); Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017); Knives Out (2019); Glass Onion (2022)
Photo by Emily Soto
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