FREE Special Event:
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Rian Johnson | 2025 | USA | PG-13 | DCP
Benoit Blanc returns for his most dangerous case yet, and it has to be seen to be believed! Followed by a Q&A with the film's composer, Nathan Johnson.
About Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Oscar-nominated writer-director Rian Johnson and Daniel Craig are back, bringing their version of Hercule Poirot to the screen for the third time with Craig’s Benoit Blanc in Wake Up Dead Man. Taking inspiration from Edgar Allan Poe and the classic locked-room mysteries of Sherlock Holmes, this installment of the enormously entertaining series finds Blanc in a small, upstate New York town, embroiled in an impossible murder focused around the town’s local church and its small but devoted congregation. Led by Craig and Josh O’Connor, the stellar ensemble cast includes Josh Brolin, Glenn Close, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Jeremy Renner, Mila Kunis, and Thomas Haden Church. [144 min; comedy, mystery; English; watch the trailer]
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This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Nathan Johnson, the film’s composer. Johnson is an award-winning composer whose work has been featured in films like Brick, Nightmare Alley, Looper, The Brothers Bloom, and Knives Out, among others.
"Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery is an enticingly clever and droll, nearly pitch-perfect piece of murder-mystery fun—a whodunit that lives up to the expectations set six years ago by Knives Out, which offered its own perfect revival of the Agatha Christie spirit, with a tasty frosting of meta cheekiness." — Owen Gleiberman, Variety
"With its Gothic atmosphere and deeper themes, Wake Up Dead Man has a darker tone than the previous Knives Out films. Yet it is also the funniest and most playful so far." — Caryn James, BBC
"Everyone seems to be having a blast, and the filmmaker knows how to take both the ensemble he’s assembled and his congregation of Knives Out fans—call us Blanc-heads—to church, literally and figuratively." — David Fear, Rolling Stone
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