6 h. ago BRIAN VINER reviews Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery: Smart, hilarious, gloriously acted... it's the best one yet

The first Knives Out in 2019 was so much fun that, inevitably, the critical knives came out when its 2022 follow-up, Glass Onion , failed to live up to expectations.

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41 h. ago Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery review – Rian Johnson’s cool, clever whodunnit is yet to stumble

Josh O’Connor delivers a killer turn as a timid priest caught in the crosshairs of Daniel Craig’s debonair detective

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43 h. ago Sisu is like an insanely violent Clint Eastwood revenge film...set in rural Finland. Film critic Brian Viner reviews

Like Clint, our hero Aatami doesn't say much. In fact, he doesn't say anything at all; just roars with anger now and then. And the villain bears more than a passing resemblance to Lee Van Cleef.

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48 h. ago Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery review – Josh O’Connor excels in another deadpan delight

Daniel Craig is joined by a sparkling array of talent including O’Connor, Glenn Close and Josh Brolin in this latest murder mystery with a religious undercurrentRian Johnson’s delectable new Knives Out film is a chocolate box: mouthwateringly delicious on the first layer and well, perfectly tasty on the second. Daniel Craig returns as private detective Benoit Blanc, in a slightly more serious mode than before, with not as many droll suth’n phrases and quirky faux-naif mannerisms, but rocking a longer hairstyle and handsomely tailored three-piece suit.Blanc arrives at a Catholic church in upstate New York to investigate the sensational murder of its presiding priest, Monsignor Jefferson Wicks, a ferocious clerical alpha male played by Josh Brolin, thundering his reactionary views from the pulpit. (That “Monsignor” title can only be bestowed by the pope incidentally: presumably Benedict XVI or John Paul II, not milksop liberals like Francis or Leo XIV.) And prime suspect is the sweet-...

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54 h. ago Wake Up Dead Man movie review: knives way the hell out (London Film Festival 2025)

Wake Up Dead Man movie review: knives way the hell out (London Film Festival 2025)  Flick Filosopher

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59 h. ago Wake Up Dead Man Knives Out 3 release date on Netflix, cast and more

The latest film in the popular murder mystery franchise will make its way to the big screen before streaming

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5 d. ago Rian Johnson ‘frustrated’ Knives Out 3 won’t be screening in biggest movie chain as he calls on fans for support

Third iteration in Johnson’s acclaimed murder mystery franchise will arrive in select theaters November 26

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6 d. ago Rian Johnson ‘frustrated’ Knives Out 3 won’t be screening in biggest movie chain, calls on fan support to extend theater run

Third iteration in Johnson’s acclaimed murder mystery franchise will arrive in select theaters November 26

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7 d. ago BRIAN VINER reviews Sisu: Road to revenge... it's violent but exhilaratingly bonkers

Nobody can ever convince me that predictive text-messaging doesn't have a sense of humour.

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8 d. ago BRIAN VINER: Is Christmas Karma the worst festive movie of all time?

Scarcely able to believe how ghastly it was after last week's screening with fellow critics in London, on Tuesday afternoon I went to the Odeon in Hereford to endure it again.

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8 d. ago BRIAN VINER reviews Christmas Karma: This spectacularly dreadful offering will empty cinemas quicker than an outbreak of dysentery!

Scarcely able to believe how ghastly it was after last week's screening with fellow critics in London, on Tuesday afternoon I went to the Odeon in Hereford to endure it again.

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9 d. ago BRIAN VINER reviews Wicked: For Good: Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo are magnificent in this extravagantly sumptuous sequel

Like last year's film, this one is extravagantly sumptuous on the eye.

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1 week ago Wake Up Dead Man new Netflix trailer teases 'darkest' Knives Out movie yet

Netflix has just released a new trailer for Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, which is coming sooner than you think.

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1 week ago ‘I’m not as fierce as I seem’: Glenn Close on growing up in a cult, marching against Trump – and being unlucky in love

She’s Hollywood’s biggest character actor who terrified a generation of men with her ‘bunny boiling’ turn in Fatal Attraction. Now, Close alternates the glamour of the red carpet with living in a red state. She talks about the joy of her ‘undefined’ lifeMost of us don’t live our lives in accordance with a governing metaphor, but Glenn Close does. The 78-year-old was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, a town in the north‑east of the US that, to the actor’s enduring irritation, telegraphs “smug affluence” to other Americans. In fact, Close’s background is more complicated than that, rooted in a childhood that was wild and free but also traumatic, and in an area of New England in which her family goes back generations. “I grew up on those great stone walls of New England,” says the actor, chin out, gimlet-eyed – Queen Christina at the prow of a ship. “Some of them were 6ft tall and 250 years old! I have a book called Sermons in Stone and it says at one point that ...

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2 w. ago BRIAN VINER reviews The Running Man: A deadly game of traitors and faithfuls (with a billion dollar prize)

BRIAN VINER: This version of The Running Man is not a straight remake, although there's a wink to the original with big Arnie on the US banknotes known as 'new' dollars.

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3 w. ago BRIAN VINER reviews Nicholas Hytner's The Choral: Too many duff notes in this sub

This week's good news is that Alan Bennett, now aged 91, has written a new original screenplay.

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