Every Knives Out Movie Ranked from Worst to Best

Wake Up Dead Man (2025)
Wake Up Dead Man (2025)

Here is Cinephile Corner’s ranking of every Knives Out movie from worst to best:

3. Glass Onion

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)

Although it’s still setting the pace in terms of quality that other murder mysteries strive for, Netflix’s second Knives Out installment, Glass Onion, feels like a rehashing of every character type and narrative twist that the original did so much better.

Read our full review of Glass Onion

2. Knives Out

Knives Out (2019) movie poster

1. Wake Up Dead Man

Wake Up Dead Man (2025)

Wake Up Dead Man is the darkest and most layered entry in Rian Johnson’s series, a knotty whodunit that swaps glass palaces for a small town parish and finds real charge in the pivot. The film opens on Jud Duplenticy, a young priest played by Josh O’Connor, whose past mistake in the boxing ring rerouted his life toward faith. Johnson is interested less in the institution than in individual mercy and failure, and O’Connor makes that tension visible in every choice.

Read our full review of Wake Up Dead Man


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