"Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery"

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2025

⏱️ 168 minutes

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For this week's main podcast review, Katie Johnson, Dan Bayer, Daniel Howat, and Brendan Hodges join me to discuss the latest film from Academy Award-nominee Rian Johnson in the "Knives Out" franchise "Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery," starring Daniel Craig, Josh O'Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, and Thomas Haden Church. The second film to premiere on Netflix following "Glass Onion" and the third in the franchise overall, this latest murder-mystery sees Craig's Benoit Blanc return in a case that will take him to religious highs and devilish lows, with another electric cast of characters and plenty of twists and turns. What did we think of it? Please tune in as we discuss the story, performances, characters, cinematography, the blending of spiritual drama, mystery thriller, and playful humor, the future of the franchise, its awards season chances, and more in our SPOILER-FILLED review. Thank you for listening, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is our review for Wake Up Dead Man and Knives Out Mystery.
0:06.9	You're the only one on stage with the Montsignor at the time of his killing.
0:11.7	You're the only one at that church who hated his guts.
0:14.4	This spirit really moved him today, huh?
0:16.9	So tell me.
0:19.2	What the hell happened?
0:21.6	Everyone thinks I did it.
0:26.6	I didn't do it.
0:27.6	This goes way beyond normal police work.
0:30.6	This is something you and I have not experienced.
0:33.6	A perfectly impossibleial crime.
0:40.3	This case is solvable, right?
0:42.3	I'm incapable of not solving a crime.
0:44.3	Oh, you'll see. It's fun.
0:47.3	Wicks had a vast family fortune.
0:55.0	If made public could ruin people.
0:59.0	God forbid.
1:02.0	It is time to discover
1:06.0	what this flock of wicked wolves is hiding.
1:13.6	There's some Scooby-Doo shit going on here. Scooby-Doo.
1:16.6	Scooby-Doo.
1:21.6	With all the pieces on the table,
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