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Wake Up Dead Man (2025)

Tuesday, November 25th, 2025

Directed by Rian Johnson

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Wake Up Dead Man (2025)

Gorgeous, confident, fun film. Trades a little of Glass Onion’s fun or Knives Out’s mystery triumph for earnestness and heartfelt character arcs. It’s a worthy trade that helps this stand out in an absolutely terrific series of movies.

Too many great performances to recount. Daniel Craig is terrific and having the time of his life (as always), Josh O’Connor is a great choice to carry the main emotional weight of the story, and Josh Brolin’s casting is both a bold choice and yet a very Brolin-esque performance simultaneously.

Absolutely worth seeing in a theatre. It’s gorgeous on the big screen, even if the sound mix turned every on-screen cell phone vibration into the loudest, scariest, pants-fillingest sound you’ve ever heard.


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