About 15 minutes into Rian Johnson’s Knives Out, I knew I’d have to see it again.
The Thrombeys — the wealthy and, of course, extremely dysfunctional family at the center of the movie — have gathered in their “ancestral home” for an investigation into the death of their patriarch, Harlan (Christopher Plummer).
Each is interviewed in turn, and each is revealed to be more hilariously terrible than the last, with dialogue efficiently establishing precisely what kind of asshole each one is: the heiress who insists that she “built [her] business from the ground up,” the do-nothing who proudly notes that she “read a tweet about an article in The New Yorker,” the haughty bigot who earnestly quotes the “immigrants” line from Hamilton. Read more…
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