'Knives Out' review: A sleuth plays a ripping game of Clue, and a family of vipers wonders whodunit
by Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Nov 21, 2019
3 minutes
Writer-director Rian Johnson's fizzy Agatha Christie riff "Knives Out" succeeds as a throwback with more than mere nostalgia on its mind. Against our current wash of grim Scandinavian serial-killer binge-watches, gory yet bloodless American police procedurals and endlessly streaming reruns of "Columbo" and "Murder, She Wrote," this one's a good time, period. That's all it's trying for. And when a shrewd commercial storyteller provides such a thing, we do the
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