“ 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. (It invited you to watch yourself watching yourself try to solve a deviously orchestrated crime.) Three years ago, “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” was just as clever, but like a lot of sequels to iconic hits it brandished a go-big-or-go-home quality that made it, in the end, a bit too top-heavy. It was still good, but not as good.

“Wake Up Dead Man” gives us the best of both worlds. It, too, is trying for something grander than the first “Knives Out.” But this one

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