Moira Macdonald The Seattle Times (TNS)

Good news for the holiday season: Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) is back, with both hair and accent appropriately shaggy. Rian Johnson’s Southern-flavored detective, who solved wickedly clever crimes previously in “Knives Out” and “Glass Onion,” returns for “Wake Up Dead Man,” a thoughtful if slightly overlong take on a classic Agatha Christie-type mystery: Somebody, in an atmosphere with drama and tension swirling, steps alone into a windowless room, closes the door and within mere seconds is murdered. How is this possible, and whodunit? Well, as Benoit would say (and does, deliciously), “scooby-dooby-doo.”

It’s a big part of the pleasure of the “Knives Out” franchise that Johnson thoroughly changes up the settings (and, except for Craig, the cast) e

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