Not only is it so tightly written so as to sufficiently fit several characters into the story, but it is wickedly smart in how it approaches its mystery too.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 14, 2024

The film is crafted in a way that is clever enough to keep you guessing, but entertaining enough to make you not care if your guess is correct.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 14, 2024

Knives Out is playful and entertaining but his commentary on political and personal detractions within his life spring forward...

| Apr 4, 2024

In Knives Out, the crime is treated through the police enigma genre that will keep the viewer entertained from beginning to end, through the excellent dosage of information and the different twists and turns that its resolution presents.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 27, 2024

Witty, unpredictable and surprisingly insightful, Rian Johnson’s whodunnit Knives Out keeps you guessing until the very end.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 13, 2023

Masterfully written dialogue, remarkable editing, and great use of classic cinematography techniques. An entertaining story with tremendous replay value and significant sociopolitical layers that only elevate the already complex yet subtle narrative.

| Original Score: A | Jul 24, 2023

Not only is Johnson enjoying himself, but the entire cast is clearly having a blast. And how could they not? Johnson creates for them a narrative playground full of whip-smart dialogue, genre nostalgia, and with a biting sense of humor.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 22, 2022

It has good performances and brushes of originality and freshness. Yet it tries so hard for the audience's approval and validation it becomes somewhat bugging. Good movie nonetheless. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 7, 2022

…an engrossing puzzle that constitutes that rarest of cinematic commodities, a good story well told…

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 21, 2022

A devilishly entertaining all-star murder mystery that stands with the best of the genre

| Original Score: 8/10 | May 13, 2022

It was one of 2019's best films, if only for the way it studies classicism in the genre that has always leaned on the lifestyles of the rich and the famous to mount its greatest mysteries.

| Mar 11, 2022

Sharp and funny, Knives Out exceeds expectations by proving to be more than its surface implies, even as Johnson demonstrates his first-rate skill in the story's maneuvers and charades.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 23, 2022

Knives Out might not be the classic whodunit that the marketing suggests, but it remains one of the most entertaining and engaging films of the year.

| Feb 12, 2022

A generally enjoyable time with fun cartoonish characters.

| Original Score: 60/100 | Jan 14, 2022

The dialogue is... to die for. It doesn't get any better than this.

| Sep 16, 2021

An ingenious new thriller that takes the bones of Agatha Christie and brilliantly updates it for the most purely entertaining movie of the year.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 12, 2021

Bubbling merrily in its humanity, and impishly clear in exposing societal rot through the cleverest of cinema lenses - a whodunit.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 31, 2021

Knives Out is a thoroughly satisfying murder mystery populated with well-drawn, idiosyncratic characters who collectively present a tapestry of modern America.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 25, 2021

A thrilling, expertly-crafted whodunit...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 29, 2021

A great example of what genre cinema can be on its best days, Rian Johnson's whodunit takes the rules, bends them, plays with them, reverses them and then realigns them so smoothly...

| Apr 14, 2021