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"Ratched", "Knives Out" and "The Third Day": Our streaming tips for the weekend

2020-09-19T10:59:09.689Z


Daniel Craig plays his best anti-bond role in "Knives Out", Jude Law loses his bearings between reality and madness in "The Third Day", and "Ratched" on Netflix is ​​a breath of nothing.


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Agatha Christie revenant "Knives Out": Daniel Craig doesn't have a British Bond accent, but Southern Drawl

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"Knives Out - Murder is a Family Business," Amazon Prime Video

Time budget:

130 minutes


for fans of:

Agatha Christie classics, "8 women"

A writer is murdered.

Every relative and domestic worker is suspect.

A detective appears who interrogates them all and, after many twists and turns, finds the real perpetrator.

Agatha Christie, ick hear you trap.

Can this exhausted starting position seriously surprise you?

Certainly not if, like Kenneth Brannagh, you simply re-filmed the old Christie classics with pomp once again, as happened a few years ago with "Murder on the Orient Express" and currently again with "Death on the Nile" (theatrical release should be in October , but in these times you never know.) The US director Rian Johnson has a different approach in "Knives Out".

He knows a thing or two about putting new wine into old bottles.

After all, he directed the Star Wars film "The Last Jedi" and will write a new trilogy of the all-opera.

Here Johnson takes the familiar pieces of the puzzle, repaints some of them, dips others in aggressive acid, and then reassembles them.

It turns into a satire on having and not-having that has washed itself out.

And just the appearance of Daniel Craig as a detective with the broadest southern accent (try the original tone) is worth the renewed visit to the Agatha Christie Theater.

(Read the detailed review of the theatrical release here.)

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"The Third Day": Sam (Jude Law) slowly doesn't know where his head is anymore

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"The Third Day," Sky

Running time:

six episodes of 60 minutes each


for fans of:

"The Wicker Man", "Midsommar"

The fact that you don't understand anything at first is not a bad sign for a thriller that is about how reality and madness become indistinguishable.

Sam, played by Jude Law, is standing somewhere on a dirt road and speaks into his cell phone, it is about money, and the situation seems to be dramatic.

Shortly afterwards, he drops a children's T-shirt into a stream in the middle of the forest.

Then he meets a suicidal youth, whose life he saves, and who in turn takes him to a strange island that can only be reached by car for seven minutes a day - then the sea swallows the road again.

At the latest then the visual fence post beckons violently, because of course Sam will not find his way down from this island anytime soon and will also leave the ground of reality more and more.

After three episodes the staff changes, and it's no longer about Sam, but a woman played by Naomie Harris who is also stranded on the island.

Don't worry, the gaps in this co-production by Sky and HBO will gradually be filled in and develop into an impressive mystery horror in which bizarre rituals, visions and a lot of blood play a role.

Small damper: Much of this has already been seen in the film "Midsommar", and pulling the ground under your feet is not quite as impressive here.

Just don't watch this:

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"The Devil All The Time": Robert Pattinson as a paranoid preacher

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"The Devil All The Time," Netflix

Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Mia Wasikowska, Bill Skarsgard - actually a cast to die for.

The two-hour long thriller "The Devil All The Time" is a waste of life anyway, especially for people who love dark thrillers that are rarely shown in the cinema.

Director Antonio Campos puts

together a story

from elements of

southern gothic

in which people are raped and stabbed, crucified and beaten without restraint, in which small towns in the southern United States look like courtyards of hell and mad preachers (Pattinson) pour oil on the fire of sick passions .

Alone - instead of a peppered gumbo, it becomes a thin soup with a disgusting insert.

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"Ratched": The crude nurse (Sarah Paulson, left) from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" is back

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"Ratched", Netflix

The next Netflix series from super producer Ryan Murphy, like its predecessor "Hollywood", filled with film history - and again it becomes a (undoubtedly good-looking) breath of nothing.

"Ratched" is supposed to tell the story of the sadistic nurse from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".

Murphy has little or no interest in the classic, however, and the styled images look more like Hitchcock than New Hollywood.

The only thing that is spectacular is how much runtime (eight episodes of 60 minutes each) can be filled with a story that cannot explain what it is for until the end.

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Source: spiegel

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