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The Next Picture Show

Rian Johnson's Mystery Master, Pt. 2 - Knives Out

The Next Picture Show

Filmspotting

Tv & Film, Film History, Film Reviews

4.6858 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2019

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Johnson's follow up to "The Last Jedi" is a crowd-pleasing, deconstructed whodunit.

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It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

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You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

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0:48.2

Welcome back to the next picture show, a movie of the week podcast devoted to a classic film

0:52.3

and the way it's shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

0:54.8

I'm Tasha Robinson, here again with... Genevieve Kosky. Scott Tobias. Keith Phipps. In our last episode, we discussed Ryan Johnson's high school neo-noir brick, a murder mystery that creates its own world, which feels something like a 1940s Dashel Hammett novel, and something like a John Hughes high school drama. This week we're looking at Johnson's latest film, Nives Out, which draws from and upends murder mystery conventions in similar

1:15.2

ways. Knives Out starts as something of an Agatha Christie cozy mystery, set in a household

1:20.0

full of cantankerous, larger-than-life characters who all have plausible motives for murder,

1:24.3

and evolves into an Alfred Hitchcock movie full of tension, chases, and sudden twists.

1:29.1

Christopher Plummer plays Harlan Thrombie, a famous thriller writer, whose success is supporting a

1:34.0

wide variety of family members, played by a cast including Jamie Lee Curtis, Don Johnson, Chris Evans,

1:39.4

Michael Shannon, Tony Collette, and Catherine Langford. Then Harlan dies after a contentious evening with a family,

1:45.6

and detectives, Lekeith Stanfield, and Daniel Craig, come in to explore the options,

1:50.0

reluctantly assisted by Harlan's in-home caregiver Marta, played by Anna de Armas. The film

1:55.5

was billed as something of an ensemble comedy based around the family, but it subverts those

1:59.6

expectations early on by turning

2:01.6

into a more class and race-based story about how the white upper class entitled Thromby family

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