"Daniel Craig returns as private detective Benoit Blanc, in a slightly more serious mode than before, with not as many droll suth'n phrases and quirky faux-naif mannerisms, but rocking a longer hairstyle and handsomely tailored three-piece suit. Blanc arrives at a Catholic church in upstate New York to investigate the sensational murder of its presiding priest, Monsignor Jefferson Wicks, a ferocious clerical alpha male played by Josh Brolin, thundering his reactionary views from the pulpit."
"(That Monsignor title can only be bestowed by the pope incidentally: presumably Benedict XVI or John Paul II, not milksop liberals like Francis or Leo XIV.) And prime suspect is the sweet-natured, thoughtful junior priest Father Jud Duplenticy, amusingly played by Josh O'Connor, who was upset by the Monsignor's heartless attitudes and was caught on video threatening to cut him out of the church like a cancer."
"The situation is complicated by the fact that Mgr Wicks was adored by a close-knit group of cranky and troubled parishioners, a hilariously cartoony lineup with a few resemblances to personae from the first Knives Out film. Wheelchair-using cellist Simone Vivane (Cailee Spaeny) is stricken with illness like Jacqueline du Pre; failing sci-fi novelist Lee Ross (Andrew Scott) is trying to convert his interminable Substack into a masterpiece;"
A Knives Out film unfolds as a layered, mouthwatering mystery. Benoit Blanc returns in a slightly more serious mode, sporting a longer hairstyle and a handsomely tailored three-piece suit. Blanc arrives at an upstate New York Catholic church to investigate the sensational murder of Monsignor Jefferson Wicks, a thundering clerical alpha male. The prime suspect is junior priest Father Jud Duplenticy, filmed threatening to cut the Monsignor out of the church. An atheist Blanc's worldview clashes with the junior priest and leads to an extraordinary encounter with the Resurrection. A close-knit ensemble of eccentric parishioners further complicates the case.
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