Releasing for Thanksgiving, it’s a fun, family-oriented, murder mystery (if your family is anything like these folks, anyway…), from the director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Rian Johnson, it’s:

Knives Out

Take an apparent suicide, stir in a hard-boiled southern PI, add a heaping helping of a money-grubbing family, then add more than a dash of dark comedy, and you’ve got the recipe for something that could be quite special in this Agatha Christie-esque mystery.

Is it?

Let’s unsheath our review and find out, shall we?

Knives Out stars Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Leigh Curtis, Michael Shannon, Toni Collette, Don Johnson, Lakeith Stanfield, Christopher Plummer, Katherine Langford, Jaeden Martell, Riki Lindhome, Edi Patterson, K Callan, and includes a wondeful appearance by the legendary Frank Oz.