It’s hard to come up with the right words to describe Knives Out. Incredible? No, not flashy enough. Marvelous? Nah. Stupendous? Definitely. Rian Johnson’s latest original film is a fantastic trip to the movies.
Setting this 2018 sequel, and in some ways reboot, to the original John Carpenter horror masterpiece precisely 40 years after the original, while ignoring all other sequels, was a bold move that pays off in David Gordon Green’s Halloween.