Knives Out: Sharpest Writing of 2019?
Knives Out doesn’t just defy the whodunit narrative, it uses the weaknesses to its advantage. It’s well aware of the genre’s faults and tropes

Isolated in the dreary tundra, identical twin brothers live a life consumed by sinister tradition. As one reaches his breaking point, the other manipulates and controls- trapping them in a traumatic familial bond forged by shadow and blood.
Knives Out doesn’t just defy the whodunit narrative, it uses the weaknesses to its advantage. It’s well aware of the genre’s faults and tropes
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