“Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery,” Rian Johnson’s darkest, funniest and best installment yet in his three-film detective series , takes place in a church stunned by two sins. The first is murder. The second is theft: The franchise’s star, Southern-fried private investigator Benoit Blanc ( Daniel Craig ), has the film stolen from him by a priest, Father Jud Duplenticy ( Josh O’Connor ), an ex-boxer with a neck tattoo and a wicked right cross.

The innocent-faced O’Connor excels at crooks and suckers and fittingly, his Jud describes himself as “young, dumb and full of Christ.” Jud killed a man as a teenager and, despite years of prayer and patience, still has the temper to threaten his superior, Msgr. Jefferson Wicks ( Josh Brolin ), to relinquish his tyrannical hold over th

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