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The film centers around two young women, Becca and Sam, who were once high school sweethearts until they reconnect in their town.

Evelyn, a recently retired widow, masks her paralyzing worry about the future with the comfort of routine. But when her son, Asher, moves back home after graduating from college, his parallel anxieties amplify Evelyn's internal crisis.
The film centers around two young women, Becca and Sam, who were once high school sweethearts until they reconnect in their town.
It only seems to prove that when the company had their backs against the wall and needed an all pleasing, generic movie that had to make up for The Last Jedi, they chose to sacrifice almost everything that made their main protagonist interesting and that made her stand out as the strong female character that a generation of young movie goers was supposed to look up to. Instead, we were left with a Rey that was so much less than she could have been. And I guess that’s the real story of Rey and The Rise of Skywalker; they could have been so much more, but they were just more of the same.
Written and directed by Rian Johnson (Looper, Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi), Knives Out was one of the most clever and intricately crafted films of 2019.
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