“The Thursday Murder Club” Provides a Cozy Mystery
As a frequent “the book was better” extoller, this movie was well worth the watch.

Jui follows a young woman torn between the conservative values of her community and her own emerging sense of freedom. Raised to uphold ideals of purity and obedience, she quietly begins to question the life mapped out for her. As tradition clashes with personal desire, Jui must choose between staying silent or forging her own path.
As a frequent “the book was better” extoller, this movie was well worth the watch.
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.
As legal dramas go, we rarely see an African-American actor in the lead role. "The Burial" has several.
In addition to the cast being delightfully diverse this time around, the film was just loosely-plotted and action-packed enough to keep a casual fan like myself entertained. While I do agree that the writing of Cole left much to be desired for an original character thrust into a preconceived universe, none of the characters seemed particularly fleshed out in terms of personality; however, I think that's to be expected when you're watching a film literally inspired by a video game.
America is the crux of the storyline: she is the only person in existence with the power to jump between universes. As central as America is to the Multiverse of Madness story, she somehow didn’t get that much to do.
Disclosure Day asks us to question humanity's role in the universe but falls victim to the same assumptions of centrality.