Rian Johnson's 2019 whodunit mystery film starring Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, and Ana de Armas, which reinvented the Agatha Christie-style murder mystery for contemporary audiences with sharp class satire.
Revived the whodunit genre by revealing the 'who' early and making the mystery about the 'how and what next' — a structural inversion that maintained tension through character rather than information — while embedding sharp commentary on wealth and inheritance.
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