IMDb plot summary: Detective Benoit Blanc teams up with an earnest young priest to investigate a perfectly impossible crime at a small-town church with a dark history.
Directed by Rian Johnson. Stars Daniel Craig, Josh O'Connor, and Glenn Close.
Wake Up Dead Man is the third in Rian Johnson's Benoit Blanc mystery series, and this time it centers on a priest played by Josh O'Connor who is assigned to a new church where he has serious concerns about the way things are going. And then, of course, there's a murder.
another really incredible entry into the Benoit Blanc mysteries... turns out Rian Johnson is really great at this. This one in particular hits home for me as a Christian myself, as this is asking some great questions about faith and justice and community, and I think it handles them really beautifully. It was also the first of the Blanc films where I was truly lured in by the mystery itself. My husband and I could NOT figure out how it happened, and the journey of figuring out the answer was wonderful. I wish Andrew Scott had had a bit more to do -- he's too talented an actor to be pushed into the background the way he was here. But overall, this is an excellent film. The series continues to be a treasure trove of "let's show good people getting good things in the face of evil" and I'm here for it forever.
How it entered my Flickchart:
🎥 Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025)
📊 Ranked #305/4167 on my Flickchart
🎯 Flickscore™: 93
beat Fahrenheit 451 (#2081 → #2082)
beat Guilty as Sin (#1040 → #1041)
beat The Mummy (#520 → #521)
lost to That Thing You Do! (held at #260)
beat Hero (#390 → #391)
beat August Rush (#325 → #326)
lost to Two Lovers and a Bear (held at #292)
beat Leap of Faith (#308 → #309)
lost to Parasite (held at #300)
lost to Mass (held at #304)
beat Sabrina (#306 → #307)
beat Beginners (#305 → #306)
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