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Wake Up Dead Man

2025
★ 7.3 / 10
Detective Benoit Blanc teams up with an earnest young priest to investigate a perfectly impossible crime at a small-town church with a dark history.
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★★★★★
Big fan of the previous two installments, but sorry, this just didn't work for me. It was made to look more dramatic than how much it actually was. The biggest reason why it didn't work for me was the fact that even though there were multiple characters, none...
★★★★★
By Ian Chandler - November 27, 2025 Wake Up Dead Man is Rian Johnson's latest murder mystery in the Benoit Blanc franchise and, fortunately, the final installment produced under Netflix's oversight. Similar to Kenneth Branagh's third Poirot film, A Haunting i...
★★★★★
The introduction is way too long. 45 minutes until the "detective" shows his face. Up until that point, it's got a few short, and very forced, micro lectures of the evils of faith and conservatism. The writing is forced, there is dialogue that doesn't help to...
★★★★★
Wake Up Dead Man really surprised me. I will admit I was not a huge fan of the first two films, but this new Knives Out installment is a much different beast. It still has plenty of laugh out loud moments, but the tone tends to take a more serious approach tha...
★★★★★
I saw this movie on the opening night of the Philadelphia Film Festival, which explains why I saw it before it will be released to Netflix in November. "Wake Up Dead Man" is pretty typical of Rian Johnson's two previous Knives Out films. First, it has a prett...
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