The last big murder mystery to hit theatres was Murder on the Orient Express, a badly executed adaption of an Agatha Christie classic that seemed to highlight how badly the genre has aged.

Johnson's Agatha Christie-esque mystery “Knives Out” not only brings back this breed of manor house murder mystery — last a cult hit with the 1980s-era “Clue” — but proves that the ...

Rian Johnson’s “Knives ... Thrombey house into a palpable maze of strange angles and secret passages, as though someone built a mansion by using a “Clue” board game for blueprints).