![]() Among the many relationships that web out from the epicenter of the freshly killed Harlan, a myriad occur between women who are presented as more than just girlfriends or wives of men. Speaking of balance, Knives Out boasts seven women to eight men among the film’s suspects and detectives, with women exhibiting equal depth and importance to the plot as men. Impressively, she stands out through the very meekness of her character, with the contrast providing a wonderful balance to the otherwise star-stuffed cast. The young caretaker finds herself targeted by disparate members of the Thrombey family as each vulture seeks to scrabble back wealth after the death of their patriarch, Harlan Thrombey.Īmong such storied talent and big performances by A-listers such as Plummer, Jamie Lee Curtis, Chris Evans, Toni Collette, or Daniel Craig, the young de Armas holds her own without having to compete. Marta Cabrera (Ana de Armas) serves as the film’s moral center and plays the straight woman to a heinous(ly ridiculous) cast of characters. Luckily, Johnson saves the most stomach-dropping surprises for the end, resulting in a package of sheer entertainment from start to finish-if not throughout, exactly. Numerous twists and turns swing toward narrative vertigo somewhere around the 90-minute mark, where I felt my interest begin to wane. The very same attribute that gives Knives Out life, however, does bubble over the top like an excitable stew. In a feat of cinematic communion, audience members leaned forward in their seats for the shared privilege of finding out: Who did it? Who killed Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer)? Thus, an air of exuberance suffused the Princess of Wales Theatre at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), where the film saw its world premiere. The resulting action-packed blend of comedy and thriller breathes life into a genre that has hibernated for too long, with only stale remakes like Murder on the Orient Express (2017) available to drag viewers through the drought. In short: A modern whodunit set in a gorgeous Victorian home? Count me in. And in our spare time, my childhood friend and I began writing and organizing mystery parties in middle school, when I still had to bribe my older sister to cater the party, well into adulthood when alcohol sufficed as the main course. ![]() ![]() I grew up on the kitschy Clue VCR game that came out in 1985, spending hours watching (and rewatching) the hour-long movie and solving the game’s various plots. Murder mystery Knives Out had my number the moment writer-director Rian Johnson put pen to paper : I’m a diehard fan of the genre.
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