Knives Out
Hot damn, that’s a nice modern detective story. Just like most modern plots, it incorporates the detective into the plot itself, even though our Kentucky Fried Poirot bills himself as a dispassionate, cold, calculating observer, seeking only the truth. In the end, all is good, even after all twists, double twists, and even untwists. The butler did not do it, in the attic, with the morphine injection.
I find it hard to square the now repeated casting of Daniel Craig as the Sourthern drawl-sporting character. If it is a reaction to Bond, I don’t understand. Casting Ana de Armas as the immigrant kind-hearted hero I understand, she sells it completely.
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