Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

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Detective Benoit Blanc sifts through a series of suspects when a monsignor turns up dead.

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Giving Benoit Blanc a worthy mystery with its genuinely soulful fixation on faith and a scene-stealing Josh O'Connor performance, Wake Up Dead Man is another Knives Out puzzle that comes together splendidly.

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A twisted whodunit led by a most intriguing cast, Wake up Dead Man jolts the Knives Out franchise and delivers its best mystery yet.

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Roxana Hadadi

New York Magazine/Vulture

2d

The franchise has always centered Blanc as the champion of the underserved, but in leaning away from his shenanigans and slapstick and making space for someone like Father Jud to illustrate the film’s worldview... shows how much it has on its mind.

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Robert Levin

Newsday

2d

3/4

There's plenty of life left in the continuing adventures of Benoit Blanc.

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Linda Holmes

Pop Culture Happy Hour (NPR Podcast)

3d

[The film has] an incredibly rich and satisfying story, just full of kindness and compassion for the characters, and not for nothing, the very rare, really good American mainstream movie about faith, which you just don't find that many of.

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Blake Howard

One Heat Minute

2h

3.5/4

Johnson’s most tactile film in years... deliberate in composition, every candle, robe, and stone wall doing thematic work. It’s a mystery about faith that never preaches, a genre film engaged with the present without becoming a lecture.

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Robert Hutton

The Critic

3h

Whilst master detective Benoit Blanc is a man of rationality who sees the church as a house of fairy stories, O’Connor is a great counterbalance as a priest with a violent past.

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Nicolás Delgadillo

Knotfest

9h

Angrier, more confident, and far more spiritually grounded than the series has ever been.

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Stew

2h

the confessions are vulgar not needed to make the movie, not funny and quite the opposite effect made it not worth watching. most of the other conversations in the movie not much better. based on the last two movies I had greater expectations for this movie

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Ozzie P

3d

Great cast! And as always, great story telling.

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Lyn L

3d

Was a really good mystery. Famous actors. Didn't see that coming ending. Must see

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William F

4d

Daniel Craig was amazing, but he only appeared halfway through the movie. Compared to the first two films I thought this was way too dark – more like a horror movie. It was brilliant, but not as feel good as I was hoping for.

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BedlamBarber

4d

Absolutely glorious! Netflix needs to promote these theater releases much better. I would have come earlier had I known it was out a month earlier! Baghdad theatre was the perfect place to see it, too.

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Sarra S

5d

As always, an enjoyable twisty mystery with compelling plot and bonus compassion.

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Synopsis

Detective Benoit Blanc sifts through a series of suspects when a monsignor turns up dead.

Director: Rian Johnson
Producer: Rian Johnson, Ram Bergman
Screenwriter: Rian Johnson
Distributor: Netflix
Production Co: T-Street
Rating: PG-13 (Some Crude Sexual Material|Smoking|Bloody Images|Strong Language|Violent Content)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 26, 2025, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 12, 2025
Runtime: 2h 24m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital, Dolby Atmos

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