Rian Johnson’s “Knives Out” — — wants you to know that it takes place in the world of today.
In fact, it wants you to know that it wants you to know.
Hardly a minute goes by without some reference to the here and now of it all.
When legendary crime novelist Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) is found dead the morning after his 85th birthday, it’s as if the past dies with him and the present comes rushing in to replace it, eager to claim the inheritance to which it always felt entitled.Walt (Michael Shannon), who runs his late father’s publishing house, can be heard yammering on about selling all the movie rights to Netflix; technically that moment takes place in one of the film’s many seamless flashbacks, but it’s not as if Harlan’s kids were ever shy about their intentions.
When famed detective Benoit
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