Knives Out is an extremely enjoyable whodunnit that not only delivers on the genre tropes superbly but also has a knowing wit at play throughout. Writer/director Johnson excels here in both roles, from the construction and unfolding of the storytelling to some clever deployment of camera and sound. The story is always engaging and will keep you guessing for a long time (my theory was wrong!), but the real draw of the film is the excellent cast who are clearly having an absolute ball with the relationships and dialogue - in particular, look out for background reactions from Toni Collette and Jamie Lee Curtis, for example. This is a sympathetic and hugely effective updating of a classic genre that is extremely good fun to watch,
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