Wednesday, November 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Laemmle Monica Film Center, Santa Monica
Academy Award–nominated filmmaker Rian Johnson writes and directs WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY and assembles another all-star, award-winning cast. Daniel Craig returns as detective Benoit Blanc, facing his most dangerous case yet in the third and darkest chapter of Rian Johnson’s murder mystery opus. When a young priest is sent to assist Monsignor Jefferson Wicks, it’s clear that all is not well in the pews. Wicks’s modest but devoted flock includes a devout church lady, a circumspect groundskeeper, a tightly wound lawyer, an aspiring politician, the town doctor, a best selling author, and a concert cellist. After a sudden and seemingly impossible murder, the lack of an obvious suspect prompts the local police chief to join forces with the renowned detective to unravel a mystery that defies all logic. The stellar supporting cast includes Josh O'Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, Thomas Haden Church and Jeffrey Wright.