Genre
Murder Mysteries
A body, a closed circle of suspects, and a detective. The pleasure is structural: the answer must be both surprising and, in retrospect, inevitable.
Four textbook cases
Not the best four — the four that define the shape. Start anywhere.
Knives Out
Rian Johnson · 2019
Murder on the Orient Express
Kenneth Branagh · 2017
The Last of Sheila
Herbert Ross · 1973
Gosford Park
Robert Altman · 2001
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