"Saturday nights on King Street are a big deal for the Toronto International Film Festival. That's where and when the biggest premieres of the festival usually drop, and there was no bigger release this year than Rian Johnson's "Wake Up Dead Man," the third film in the " Knives Out" series. If 2022's " Glass Onion" was a big-energy lark, this one is its opposite, a thematically dense piece that discards Agatha Christie for Edgar Allen Poe and John Dickson Carr."
"That's the great Josh O'Connor as Reverend Jud Duplenticy, who calls himself in one of the film's many hysterical lines, "Young, dumb, and full of Christ." A fighter with a dark past, Jud is basically punished by the church after he punches a deacon, sent to a remote parish run by the aggressively righteous Monsignor Jefferson Wicks ( Josh Brolin)."
Wake Up Dead Man premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and serves as the third installment of the Knives Out series. The film contrasts with 2022's Glass Onion by adopting a darker, thematically dense tone informed by Edgar Allen Poe and John Dickson Carr. The screenplay foregrounds faith versus logic, the fake news era, and the importance of storytelling while delivering a swirling mystery that rewards repeat viewings. The film favors hugs over fists and forgiveness over division through character conflicts between Reverend Jud Duplenticy and Monsignor Jefferson Wicks. Josh O'Connor's Reverend Jud provides the film's standout performance alongside Daniel Craig's Benoit Blanc.
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