Rian Johnson operates in the space left behind by Agatha Christie by taking Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc from an island of rich influencers to a small-town church parish ruled over by a harsh, ruthless, Josh Brolin-played pastor with an iron grip on a small but devoted band of followers; turning those newcomers away in favour of his loyal flock. When Jefferson Wicks is killed mid-sermon, suspect number one is immediately Josh O’Connor’s Jud Duplenticy, who has killed a man in a boxing ring in the past and threatened Wicks hours before. Blanc is not so sure: every one of the flock has a motive, and every one of them must be questioned. Be they Glenn Close’s loyal bookkeeper Martha Delacroix, Kerry Washington’s Vera Draven, Andrew Scott’s sci-fi writer Lee Ross radicalised by Wicks into becom

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