Rian Johnson’s “Knives Out” is a wickedly funny, fiendishly clever, and surprisingly prescient murder mystery. It succeeds as both a brilliantly constructed puzzle-box of a whodunit, offering up a big reveal that’s extremely satisfying, and as a incisive comment on the class divisions and prejudice that are roiling America. If that sounds medicinal, fear not. “Knives Out” is great fun in the tradition of Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Orient Express” or Anthony Shaffer’s “Sleuth.”

The film centers on the members of a dysfunctional family, each of whom has a motive for offing their patriarch (Christopher Plummer), a wily and wildly successful mystery writer, whose grand mansion is likened to something out of Clue. “Knives Out” boasts an all-star cast that includes everyone from Daniel Craig, as a detective with a Southern drawl that’s as thick as the bayou, to Chris Evans, as a preppy ne’er-do-well.
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