Imagine a literary mash-up of G.K. Chesterton’s Father Brown amateur detective stories and John Dickson Carr’s locked-room mystery The Hollow Man , together with what appears to be a sly takedown of a current political leader whose power comes from preaching anger and fear. The result is Wake Up Dead Man , the third entry in Rian Johnson ’s Knives Out murder mystery series. The new film promises a return from the exhausting Greek Island excesses of Glass Onion to the more compact pleasures of the first movie, swapping the country house for a small Catholic church and rectory in upstate New York.

Imagine a literary mash-up of G.K. Chesterton’s Father Brown amateur detective stories and John Dickson Carr’s locked-room mystery The Hollow Man , together with what appears

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