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Knives Out
"Knives Out" (2019), written and directed by Rian Johnson, follows a detective investigating the death of a wealthy crime novelist, gathering his dysfunctional family of suspects together in a story that consciously revives and modernizes the classic Agatha Christie-style whodunit format. Its structural twist, revealing the killer's identity to the audience relatively early rather than withholding it until a final reveal, shifted the film's tension toward a "howcatchem" format that distinguished it from more traditionally structured genre entries while still delivering a genuine late-film surprise. The film's substantial commercial and critical success, including an Academy Award nomination for its screenplay, triggered a broader mainstream revival of interest in the classic murder mystery genre, directly leading to its own sequel franchise and inspiring numerous subsequent whodunit productions. Its combination of its genre-reviving commercial success and its structurally inventive approach to the whodunit format has made "Knives Out" one of the most significant murder mystery films of the 21st century.
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Death on the Nile
"Death on the Nile" (1978), adapting another of Agatha Christie's classic Hercule Poirot novels, follows the detective investigating a murder among wealthy travelers aboard a steamship cruising the Nile River, continuing the star-studded ensemble format established by "Murder on the Orient Express" four years earlier. Peter Ustinov's performance as Poirot, the first of several times he would play the character across subsequent Christie adaptations, offered a notably different interpretation of the detective than Albert Finney's earlier portrayal, giving audiences a direct point of comparison between differing approaches to the same iconic character. Its lush, location-shot Egyptian setting, filmed substantially on location along the actual Nile River and at genuine ancient Egyptian landmarks, gave the film a visual grandeur that distinguished it from more contained, single-location whodunit productions. Its combination of its continuation of the star-studded Christie adaptation format and its genuinely spectacular location filming has made "Death on the Nile" one of the most visually distinctive whodunit films of its era.
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