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

Lucía meets Andrea and Julián. Lucía works, eats, drinks and breathes; and the television talks about the meteorite that fell. Essay on oppression and the doubt of freedom. The root growing between the cracks of a ruined wall
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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