If there’s a discussion that the chattering classes on social media love in this season, it is what counts as a holiday movie and what does not. In that spirit, I declare the 2025 "Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery" a holiday movie, with its church setting, familiar faces cooped up in small rooms, unearthing family gossip and ethos of forgive and forget in this festive season.

Since its first airing in 2019, Rian Johnson’s "Knives Out" franchise seems to have constantly been in the public consciousness, no doubt largely because of Daniel Craig’s detective Benoit Blanc and his endlessly memeable face. It is a favorite, if formulaic comfort watch, of the locked room mystery variety, a-la-Agatha Christie. I had seen the first one, skipped the second because I did not think it could offer anything new, but felt myself drawn to it a

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