{"id":5740,"date":"2025-09-07T13:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T13:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/5740\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T13:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T13:01:07","slug":"wake-up-dead-man-reviews-what-are-critics-saying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/5740\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Wake Up Dead Man&#8217; Reviews: What Are Critics Saying?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/rian-johnson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_rian-johnson\" data-tag=\"rian-johnson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rian Johnson<\/a>\u2018s hotly anticipated Knives Out threequel <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/wake-up-dead-man\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery<\/a>\u00a0had its world premiere in the Special Presentations section of the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/toronto\/\" id=\"auto-tag_toronto\" data-tag=\"toronto\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto<\/a> Film Festival, and the entertainment world\u2019s film critics are already praising it as a successful entry into the whodunit franchise canon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tReviewers laud the murder-mystery\u2019s Gothic elements, contrasting the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/netflix\/\" id=\"auto-tag_netflix\" data-tag=\"netflix\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix<\/a> movie\u2019s more somber tone with Glass Onion\u2018s distinctly campy vibe. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/09\/wake-up-dead-man-a-knives-out-mystery-review-rian-johnson-daniel-craig-1236510199\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline\u2019s Damon Wise noted<\/a> that fans should not be alarmed at the switch in genre, as Daniel Craig\u2019s Benoit Blanc and a new all-star cast of characters keeps the project entertaining: \u201cDon\u2019t take that to mean that all the fun\u2019s been sucked out, though; far from it. As one character put is, \u2018There\u2019s obviously some Scooby-Doo sh*t going on round here.\u2019 And wouldn\u2019t you just know it, there damn well is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/criticism\/movies\/wake-up-dead-man-review-rian-johnson-third-knives-out-1235149631\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IndieWire\u2019s Kate Erbland said<\/a>: \u201cIt works, and it\u2019s no big mystery why \u2014 Johnson knows his form and format, and delivers on it, playing with tone and message but never losing sight of why these stories are so damn entertaining to watch and unravel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wake-up-dead-man-review-rian-johnson-daniel-craig-knives-out-3\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TheWrap\u2018s Chase Hutchinson<\/a> also highlighted the depth of star Josh O\u2019Connor\u2019s performance: \u201cNot only does the franchise newcomer give an excellent comedic performance, the \u2018Challengers\u2019 and \u2018God\u2019s Own Country\u2019 actor also brings a genuine amount of grace to a film that ends up becoming precisely about that.\u00a0It\u2019s Johnson\u2019s most elaborate murder mystery movie yet, but also his most emotional.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWake Up Dead Man, set for a limited theatrical run Nov. 26 and coming to Netflix Dec. 12, also stars Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack and Thomas Haden Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rian Johnson\u2018s hotly anticipated Knives Out threequel Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery\u00a0had its world premiere&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,270,1868,5126,1745,1041,1998,6559,5128],"class_list":["post-5740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-netflix","tag-rian-johnson","tag-tiff","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-film-festival","tag-wake-up-dead-man","tag-wake-up-dead-man-a-knives-out-mystery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}