Rotten Tomatoes, home of the Tomatometer, is the most trusted measurement of quality for Movies & TV. The definitive site for Reviews, Trailers, Showtimes, and Tickets. Plus, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ana de Armas, Don Johnson, and the rest of the cast reveal whose help they'd enlist to bury a body, and Chris Evans delights in telling everyone to 'eat s-t.' Johnson, who grew up in Denver, takes a veiled shot at them in his new movie, “Knives Out,” by incorporating a young, phone-tethered boy named Jacob. The dialogue-light character embodies the. Fresh Surprise: Knives Out Shows Original Films Can Still Murder At the Box Office It wasn’t a total surprise for us at RT – we had placed it in the top 5 holiday earners in our winter box office preview – but Rian Johnson’s Knives Out surpassed all tracking service expectations by earning $41.7 million since opening Wednesday. Knives Out had its world premiere at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2019, and was theatrically released in the United States on November 27 by Lionsgate Films. The film received critical acclaim, particularly for its screenplay, direction, and acting, and grossed $311.4 million worldwide against a $40 million budget.
By zntim@businessinsider.com (Zac Ntim) of INSIDER |The 20 best murder mysteries you can stream online, ranked by critics
- With classics such as 'Rear Window,' 'Chinatown,' and 'The Fugitive' the murder mystery is one of cinema's most beloved and successful genres.
- And with modern masterpieces such as Rian Johnson's 'Knives Out' continuing to pull audiences to theatres across the world, it is clear that audiences still find joy in a crafty whodunit.
- Here are the 20 best murder mystery films that you can stream online, ranked by critics.
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Last year, Rian Johnson's thanksgiving smash 'Knives Out' proved that audiences still find joy in the bowels of a well-crafted murder mystery. The salacious and unthinkable crime, the nifty investigation which ultimately falls short, and finally the director's clever reveal at the end.
And although some may argue that the murder mystery has been best executed as a literary device by the likes of Agatha Christie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and P.D. Generic driver download. James, cinema also has a long and revered history with the genre.
Here are the 20 best murder mystery films that you can stream online, ranked by critics.
© Claire Folger/LionsgateKnives Out is a 2019 film about a detective who investigates the death of the patriarch of an eccentric, combative family.
- Directed and written by Rian Johnson.
Benoit Blanc[edit]
- It's a weird case from the start. A case with a hole in the center. A donut.
- I suspect foul play. I have eliminated no suspects.
- I spoke in the car about the hole at the center of this donut. And yes, what you and Harlan did that fateful night seems at first glance to fill that hole perfectly. A donut hole in the donut's hole. But we must look a little closer. And when we do, we see that the donut hole has a hole in its center – it is not a donut hole at all, but a smaller donut with its hole, and our donut is not whole at all!
- You have a regurgitative reaction to mistruths.
- But the complexity and the gray lie not in the truth, but what you do with the truth once you have it.
- Physical evidence can tell a clear story with a forked tongue.
- Why is grief the providence of youth? I don't know. But I'd imagine that age deepens all feelings.
- The best judge of character is a dog. I've found that to be true.
- It describes the path of a projectile determined by natural law. Et voila, my method. I observe the facts without biases of the head or heart. I determine the arc's path, stroll to its terminus and the truth falls at my feet.
Ransom Drysdale[edit]
- My mother, ladies and gentlemen.
Marta Cabrera[edit]
Linda Drysdale[edit]
- We are the Thrombeys, goddammit! This is still our house!
- [to Marta] Were you boinking my father?
Walt Thrombey[edit]
Richard Lonsdale[edit]
Joni Thrombey[edit]
Detective Lieutenant Elliot[edit]
Meg Thrombey[edit]
- (being questioned) He's an alt-right dipstick troll.
Other[edit]
- Lieutenant Elliott: That.. was the dumbest car chase of all time.
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Dialogue[edit]
- [Harlan reveals to Richard that he is aware that he has been cheating on Linda with another woman, having just shown Richard pictures on his laptop catching him in the act. Richard angrily closes the laptop.]
- Harlan Thrombey: I've put all of it in this letter to her. Tomorrow, she gets it.
- Richard Drysdale: Harlan, I'm warning you.
- Harlan Thrombey: No. She deserves to know.
- Richard Drysdale: You stay out of my marriage.
- Harlan Thrombey: She deserves to know and you're gonna tell her.
- Richard Drysdale: THE HELL I AM!!!
- Harlan Thrombey: YOU TELL HER OR I WILL!!!
- Marta Cabrera: I've never been to a will reading before.
- Benoit Blanc: You'd think it'd be like a game show, but think of a community production of a tax return.
- Ransom Drysdale: That's some heavy-duty conjecture.
- Walt Thrombey: Funny, Ransom, you skipped the funeral, but you're early for the will reading.
- Ransom Drysdale: Up your ass.
- Meg Thrombey: Oh, very nice!
- Ransom Drysdale: Matter of fact, eat shit. How's that? [pointing to each family member who is shouting at him] Eat shit, eat shit, eat shit.. definitely eat shit.. We gotta do this more often.
- Benoit Blanc: This is a twisted web, and we are not finished untangling it, not yet.
- Ransom Drysdale: What is this, CSI: KFC?
- Marta Cabrera: What was that about will readings being boring?
- Benoit Blanc: The exception that proves the rule.
- Marta Cabrera: You're not much of a detective, are you?
- Benoit Blanc: Well, to be fair, you make a pretty lousy murderer.
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- Benoit Blanc: Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to request that you all stay until the investigation is completed.
- Linda Drysdale: What?
- Joni Thrombey: Can we ask why? Has something changed?
- Benoit Blanc: No..
- Joni Thrombey: No, it hasn't changed, or no, we can't ask?
Taglines[edit]
- Everyone has a motive. No one has a clue.
- Hell, any of them could have done it.
- Nothing brings a family together like murder.
Cast[edit]
- Daniel Craig – Benoit Blanc
- Chris Evans – Hugh Ransom Drysdale
- Ana de Armas – Marta Cabrera
- Jamie Lee Curtis – Linda Drysdale
- Michael Shannon – Walter 'Walt' Thrombey
- Don Johnson – Richard Drysdale
- Toni Collette – Joni Thrombey
- Lakeith Stanfield – Detective Lieutenant Elliot
- Katherine Langford – Megan 'Meg' Thrombey
- Jaeden Martell – Jacob Thrombey
- Riki Lindhome – Donna Thrombey
- Edi Patterson – Fran
- K Callan – Wanetta 'Great Nana' Thrombey
- Noah Segan – Trooper Wagner
- Christopher Plummer – Harlan Thrombey
- M. Emmet Walsh – Mr. Proofroc
- Marlene Forte – Mrs. Cabrera
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt – Detective Hardrock
External links[edit]
- Knives Out quotes at the Internet Movie Database
- Knives Out at Rotten Tomatoes