You’ve Probably Heard By Now
Knives Out, Rian Johnson’s Ten Little Indians riff and his follow-up to the now-officially-known-as-divisive The Last Jedi, is one of the best movies of all time.
At least according to people that passionately hate Donald Trump and Republicans.
The number of terabytes wasted by Woke Twitter celebrating Knives Out is too high for a humble revenue-free website such as Film Goblin to calculate, so I’ll let someone who has monetized this menace do the summarizing for us:
Hilarious. But Mistaken.
Unfortunately, there is no way we can downplay Knives Out‘s current Rotten Tomatoes rating as solely being the result of synthetically oppressed weirdos and proto-Marxists:
While most of these early reviews are from web sites that are heavily on the side of “progressive” politics — Birth.Movies.Death. has a BEST.THING.EVER. blurb in the trailer — the critics weighing in also include the BBC, The Mail, Entertainment Weekly and The LA Times.
I don’t think critics at these legacy publications are going to throw away what credibility they have left to fete a garbage-chute movie just because it touches their political joy-buttons. Usually, there has to be something of at least nominal artistic worth to move the needle of legitimate film critics.
Usually. The possibility exists that they are shilling to increase the credibility of Disney’s enfant terrible so he can go behind the camera on another Star Wars film.
The possibility also exists — in this multiverse — that Knives Out might be decent.
Dare we begin to admit that Ryan Johnson could be a good director?
Definitely too soon for that but we are getting closer to that day. Are you ready?
Here’s the trailer:
Knives Out is only in theaters on November 27, 2019.
