Like a whodunit, the Bolshoi Confidential starts with a crime; unlike a whodunit, the crime is solved in the introduction.
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It is simply a whodunit that recognizes that in real life "exoneration" cases, the whodunit is often beside the point.
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Jennifer Finney Boylan has designed LONG BLACK VEIL (Crown, $25) as a whodunit — an existential whodunit about living with all your selves.
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I think everyone is so fascinated by the whodunit, right?
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BG: Most true crime films are trying to uncover whodunit.
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Tonight, treat yourself to this cod with chanterelles dish. Whodunit?
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It's the whodunit someone, most likely Toby himself, must solve.
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It could never be a whodunit where there's no who.
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This (Hernandez) thing ... this isn't a whodunit, it's a whydunit.
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This detective drama is less a whodunit than a whydunit.
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And a long-running British whodunit series is available to stream.
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Written by Adam Brooks Definitely Maybe is the whodunit of romantic comedies.
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Strong Island, which hits Netflix in September, isn't about solving a whodunit.
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And I think there's nothing more titillating then the question of whodunit.
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So they're the perfect places for scientists to investigate the plastic whodunit.
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Still, the answer to the whodunit is a sly — and satisfying — surprise.
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Rich's story is a gripping narrative that reads like a historical whodunit.
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Knives Out is a classic whodunit, and doesn't mind who knows it.
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"This classically crafted whodunit holds up nicely," our reviewer, Marilyn Stasio, wrote.
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The rest of the novel is a whodunit, occasionally clumsy but entertaining.
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This is one of those puzzles that's a little like a whodunit.
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Parlaying this material into an arty whodunit cheapens the real history invoked.
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Jason Bateman is about to put his spin on the ultimate whodunit.
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Kim Jong Nam This real-life whodunit gets more bizarre by the day.
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But new readers will certainly appreciate what she does outside the whodunit plotline.
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The mystery isn't whodunit, since we already know who the killer is — intimately.
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It starts with a confession, so it's not a whodunit but a whydunit.
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It ramps up the tension, though, and the whodunit aspect is beautifully handled.
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The whodunit has cranked up the rumor mill into overdrive in this small town.
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It's not a forensics film, it's not a whodunit, it's not a trial film.
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This is not so much a Whodunit as a When Will They Speak Up?
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Her deconstruction of these documents turns the memoir into a sort of therapeutic whodunit.
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In an interesting twist on the true-crime genre, the first episode reveals whodunit.
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Every once in a while, we'll still get a decent whodunit of an episode.
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The incident immediately became an international whodunit: Who would dare to hack the Olympics?
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A lot of what constitutes a whodunit, just like a magic trick, is misdirection.
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It seems that everyone has a secret in this atmospheric whodunit from Lucy Foley.
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"It's a whodunit," said Robert Jillson, a lieutenant at the Saratoga Springs Police Department.
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If you want to experience this whodunit to its full extent, turn back now.
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Here's why this particular whodunit works so well in the context of its genre.
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Usually, though, an Agatha Christie novel isn't that hard to solve—the whodunit portion anyway.
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Credit them, too, for doing everything possible to not make "The Night Of" a whodunit.
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For all the witty jabs Lovesey takes at English eccentricities, this is a classic whodunit.
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It's also a romance, a psychological thriller, a liberation story and a whodunit (and why).
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Something about the old-fashioned state has caused this particular type of whodunit to mushroom.
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A similar question of "whodunit" inspired my research on the history of postwar white flight.
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It features a stirring whodunit story filled with open-ended conversation paths and memorable characters.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - It's a thriller, a whodunit, a story of loneliness, alcoholism and voyeurism.
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Jewell's not telling — "Watching You" is as much of a who-died as a whodunit.
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On Thursday, Lionsgate announced a sequel to Knives Out, the popular ensemble whodunit from last fall.
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Harvey Miller must use his cunning investigative journalism skills to crack this alarming whodunit wide open.
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It's certainly an attention-grabbing gambit, but the novel is less concerned with whodunit than why.
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Kent doesn't play games with the whodunit plotting, and the novel's water imagery is properly eerie.
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All in all, a fascinating and educational whodunit for a painting I might otherwise have overlooked.
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This classic whodunit adapts one of Agatha Christie's most popular murder mysteries for the big screen.
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The spiraling whodunit begins with Julie waking from a coma in a hospital after an attack.
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Were there modern technological developments that made your job as a whodunit writer harder or easier?
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Norwegian teen Margit Brooks tells Refinery29 that the lucky sleuths who figure out whodunit win a prize.
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She soon discovers it's a Shakespeare play but is already hooked and reads it as a whodunit.
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Honestly, reigning summer whodunit Big Little Lies might get a little bit jealous of the telenovela adaptation.
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What ensues is less a whodunit than a carefully arrived-at anatomy of a mind in meltdown.
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Whether the initial carrier — the whodunit of infectious disease — matters at all depends on whom you ask.
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McManus, a veritable master of misdirection, plots a whodunit so deftly that it transcends the YA label.
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"Generation Revolution" is a whodunit that seeks to resolve these twin mysteries of geopolitics and human nature.
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In fact, there is actually something for everyone in this whodunit flick from writer-director Rian Johnson.
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Rian Johnson's first movie after directing and writing Star Wars: The Last Jedi is a classic whodunit story.
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To commemorate Mother's Day, John Waters, and Kathleen Turner recall the making of comedy classic Serial Mom. Whodunit?
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Here's Dan's update on his travel plans:: A popular detective novelist who sets her whodunit mysteries in Quebec.
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"It turns out we have our own little whodunit," Smith said, according to the New Hampshire Union Leader.
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Consider the much-loved recent film "Knives Out," a slightly woke version of an Agatha Christie-style whodunit.
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Maeve, Viv, Ola, Lily, Aimee, and Olivia are all forced to stay after school to figure out whodunit.
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Some "Serial" fans may be disappointed to learn that the crew's latest offering is not a straightforward whodunit.
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The first test of a whodunit is how heart-stopping and strange a thing has actually been dun.
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It's a suspenseful whodunit that keeps you guessing, but it's also a beautifully rendered depiction of a grieving community.
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"I thought the numbers were really solid considering this wasn't a whodunit story like last season," Ms. Snyder said.
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Straying from the typical whodunit storytelling form, the perpetrator, Adam Gettrick (Derek Riddell), was revealed back in episode 5.
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"Knives Out" delivers a delightful, over-the-top whodunit that will keep most people guessing until its very end.
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The Unknown Girl, the new film by the Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, is a peculiar whodunit.
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This whodunit begins on a beach in Mississippi, where a bottlenose dolphin turned up dead one day this spring.
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This isn't a cookie-cutter whodunit, though; it's really a study in Osman's stranger-in-a-strange-land disorientation.
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"This is not so much a Whodunit as a When Will They Speak Up?" our reviewer, Helene Stapinsky, writes.
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This week, it's Matthew McConaughey's bare bum, an Idris Elba movie without Idris Elba, and a Nancy Drew whodunit.
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The real contribution of these documentaries is not to ask "whodunit" but to reveal what was done to the defendants.
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But as in the first season, the whodunit is less compelling than how the investigation is carried out, or suppressed.
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After tuning into the season 14 midseason premiere of Grey's Anatomy, viewers were left with a classic whodunit plot twist.
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I don't think she's even interested in finding out who's behind them, nor is this some kind of thrilling whodunit.
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Their books may revolve around crimes, but they're exploring mysteries far deeper, more intricate and more universal than just whodunit.
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It's a whodunit full of nuance on women and power that unfolded in the most picturesque, escapist setting in America.
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Ryan Reynolds voices Pikachu in this inventive whodunit set in a world where man and Pokémon interact with one another.
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" -- The whodunit continues: Page Six said multiple suspects, "including Lauren Sanchez," are "being probed as leakers of Bezos nude pics.
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I'm very drawn to genres that have hard rules to them, and the whodunit genre definitely is one of them.
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But soon, someone turns up dead — and Nick and Audrey decide to take it upon themselves to figure out whodunit.
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What could become a whodunit for The Society turns into some douchey boy just trying to make another douchey boy happy.
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Of course, because this classic "whodunit" is set in California's wine country, you'll also be wined and dined with fine fare.
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Jones touches inconclusively on a mystery that has confounded every journalist, historian and prosecutor who has delved into the "whodunit" details.
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"Mosaic," the murder mystery that began life as a do-it-yourself-whodunit smartphone app, comes to HBO on Monday, Jan.
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This isn't a whodunit but rather an examination of power and the people who wield it, and it's fascinating and devastating.
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And something entertaining like Rian Johnson's whodunit, "Knives Out," is a series of knots you'd need a Boy Scout to undo.
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But instead baseball was left with a mystery, an intriguing Hall of Fame whodunit and left "The Captain" off their ballot.
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Mendelson said the star-studded flick manages to both follow the formula of the whodunit genre and cleverly play against it.
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With the contradictions of the characters pointedly not resolved, everyone is culpable; it becomes less of a whodunit than a whodidn't.
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Rian Johnson's whodunit dark comedy features Daniel Craig, Toni Colette, Chris Evans, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Christopher Plummer and more.
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In typical whodunit fashion, the family is full of strange characters, big secrets, and tense relationships that make for a zany tableau.
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In its first season, this melodramatic murder-mystery defined itself as a whodunit decidedly more interested in its characters than its puzzle.
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On the contrary, this medieval whodunit miraculously captures the otherworldly, fish-out-of-water, discombobulating experience of being a liberal American today.
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It's a safe bet that neither Robert Browning nor Alfred, Lord Tennyson, will prove to be the murderer in this literary whodunit.
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Airth knows not to overdo the historical background; he gives us just enough to see this period whodunit from a wider perspective.
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The reclusive government accused Malaysian authorities of fabricating evidence in a bizarre case that has become a whodunit with vast geopolitical implications.
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For his latest, Knives Out, he took on the Agatha Christie-style whodunit, and the results were just as brilliant as before.
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Taking place against the stunning backdrop of south-western Poland, "Pokot" blends an unconventional whodunit with questions of animal rights and human cruelty.
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If what we've seen so far on How to Get Away with Murder are any indication, this season's biggest mystery isn't a whodunit.
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Way back in 2013, Telltale released a tense and gritty fantasy whodunit with The Wolf Among Us, an adaptation of the comic Fables.
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Following her death, the show turns into a whodunit and loses the thorny, twisted relationship that set it apart from other political thrillers.
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This isn't like a Law and Order episode where, whether you enjoyed or not, [it] hinged on how strong the "whodunit" factor is.
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You should be, mostly because of Jodie Whittaker's breathtaking performance in the BBC whodunit Broadchurch, created by incoming Doctor Who showrunner Chris Chibnall.
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There's nothing better than a whodunit mystery movie, but in the hands of a writer-director like Rian Johnson, the enjoyment is heightened.
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The premise of this young adult thriller makes it a perfect audiobook, as much of the story is recounted as a radio whodunit.
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Agatha isn't a detective, but, like Jessica Fletcher of "Murder, She Wrote," she is better at deducing whodunit than the paid professionals are.
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Rian Johnson, who is about to embark on a Star Wars trilogy of his own, is about to release his whodunit Knives Out.
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We won't spoil the movie for you, but you can make your own conclusions about Curtis' character in the whodunit, murder mystery movie.
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What Wind Gap's residents are more concerned about is playing a game of whodunit and speculating why each of the victims was targeted.
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Judge Breyer said during the hearing that the civil cases were not a "whodunit" focused on who at Volkswagen was responsible for the cheating.
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And like the pleasure experienced when the detective reveals the killer at the end of a whodunit, the outcome of professional wrestling is cathartic.
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But during the night someone kills this generous soul and only Charles, as sly and secretive as he is "sensitive and solitary," knows whodunit.
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Despite being a whodunit, the book caused some controversy among Polish conservatives for its wider discussion of issues like the Catholic Church and environmentalism.
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"It's not a whodunit, it's a question of why it happened," said Mr. Lobozzo, who listed dementia, stroke or head injury as possible explanations.
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Finally, dive into a futuristic whodunit: "Ghost in the Shell," a live-action movie adaptation of a Japanese comic book, in theaters this weekend.
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You've talked about how Knives Out is an homage to the whodunit genre that also blends in some elements of an Alfred Hitchcock thriller.
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He said that the darker content of the show — a whodunit, with story lines including sexual assault and domestic abuse — did not trouble him.
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If you're looking for a typical whodunit, forget it: These films are bound to keep you up at night, trawling chatrooms for clues and answers.
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A historical whodunit, the film follows a Roman tribune Clavius (Joseph Fiennes) tasked with investigating the strange news that Jesus's dead body has gone missing.
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Johnson's whodunit has garnered more than $300 million at the global box office since its November release, a sizable return on a $40 million budget.
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The Cesnik story, in contrast, is a noirish whodunit, and Ms. Hoskins and Ms. Schaub, despite the grimness of the material, are doughty, humorous presences.
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"Oligarchy" is a study in obsessiveness pinned to a vague, whodunit structure we don't really need, with a couple of barely felt deaths thrown in.
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Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Collette and LaKeith Stanfield star in this whodunit directed by "Star Wars: The Last Jedi's" Rian Johnson.
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This movie packs in plenty of cinema acrobatics and spectacle without ever feeling out of control, even as it morphs into a far-fetched whodunit.
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" Adds McGinn, "I think that what we found in making the film was that there was something really interesting happening outside of the whole whodunit element.
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American Vandal, the mockumentary that somehow turned a dick joke into a hit eight-episode whodunit last year, just came back to Netflix for season two.
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He decided he wanted to know not so much whether Marco lied (though he turns the question into a fascinating and suspenseful historical whodunit) but why.
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While keeping inside the lines of a classic whodunit plot, Verdon enriches the formula with a probing analysis of the way a community rips itself apart.
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His brooding debut novel, "The Sacrifice of Isaac" (1995), was an international murder whodunit whose solution hinged on how to interpret God's test of Abraham's faith.
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The very public killing of Mr. Kim appears to be another remarkable episode in the annals of bizarre North Korean behavior, a whodunit with geopolitical implications.
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The story — though consistently compelling for the whodunit and wuthappened mysteries you're trying to unravel — drags through missions that send you running back and forth between levels.
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After a man is taken in by the cops without warning, what ensues is a formally experimental procedural whodunit that takes place primarily inside one interrogation room.
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The movie is a fantastic darkly comedic whodunit that includes an incredible cast: Christopher Plummer, Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Collette, Lakeith Stanfield, Michael Shannon, and Chris Evans.
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"None of my work follows a linear notion of a whodunit, but rather reflects what a disrupted relationship to the outside world might be like," he added.
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More than a simple whodunit, the case has exposed simmering tensions of a theological, if not personal, nature in an influential corner of the Coptic Orthodox Church.
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The third part of the play makes use of just such whodunit energy as the characters return to the living room and we to our original seats.
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Rian Johnson, the director of hit whodunit movie "Knives Out," recently sat down for an interview with Vanity Fair to break down a scene from the film.
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This ostensible whodunit involves a serial killer who's preying on women, leaving behind carefully arranged body parts and a childlike snowman as a kind of elaborate signature.
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Florence used interactivity to show what it feels to fall in love, and Return of the Obra Dinn is perhaps the best whodunit to ever grace the medium.
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Although it's more of a supernatural horror story than your average murder-mystery, don't let The Wailing's police-whodunit elements lull you into a false sense of security.
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" Fogelman agreed, "Part of the goal here is, we don't have a serial killer, a whodunit in the show, but you also want to create that dramatic tension.
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If you look at some of the docuseries stuff that we've got going on, you look at The Investigation, yes, everybody's interested crime, but usually it's a whodunit.
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With the competition being made up of new releases like Lionsgate&aposs whodunit "Knives Out" and Universal&aposs drama "Queen & Slim," they will only bring out select audiences.
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But Monsieur Hire (Michel Simon), a bearded, reflective outcast regarded warily by his neighbors, saw whodunit — and confronts the lover (Viviane Romance) of the man responsible (Paul Bernard).
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You've mentioned the whodunit genre's overall moral clarity, where there's a killer who's caught at the end, and in some ways it's the opposite of a film noir.
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And I was kind of bracing myself for that, but — and I haven't really analyzed what it is about the whodunit — that never really reared its ugly head.
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The Irishman is based on the book I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt, but it's also a real-life whodunit, with a mystery at the end.
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Much of the criticism aimed at Season 2 was focused on the lack of a compelling mystery, but Pizzolatto was attempting something more ambitious than a straightforward whodunit.
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What remain a mystery — or at least the subject of a continuing investigation — are the crucial particulars to fill in the gaps of an intriguing, international case of whodunit.
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This five-episode mini-series is less focused on being a whodunit and more concerned with Ivy's emotional state and the unbearable weight her loved ones have carried around.
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There will be those eager to designate "Disappearing Earth" a thriller by focusing on the whodunit rather than what the tragedy reveals about the women in and around it.
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Otherworldly On the surface, K. J. Parker's fantastical new tale of empire, MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD (Subterranean, e-book, $4.99; limited-edition cloth, $40), is a whodunit writ large.
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You've never seen Daniel Craig — as a famous private detective with a flawlessly overbaked Southern accent tasked with sorting out a whodunit — have more fun doing anything ever. 2.
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Angelina Jolie gets her hands dirty as an FBI profiler in D.J. Caruso's whodunit thriller about a serial killer who literally takes the lives of his victims by becoming them.
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Full of twists, turns, and red herrings, each case plays out like a game a Clue, a real whodunit that has viewers playing along and guessing until the very end.
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Full of twists, turns, and red herrings, each case plays out like a game a Clue, a real whodunit that has viewers playing along and guessing until the very end.
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Buy it here >>The line between the fantastical and the spectral is utterly blurred in this charming, and vicious, historical whodunit; but "Things in Jars" is no whimsical Dr. Dolittle.
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"Knives Out," a celebrity-filled whodunit distributed by Lionsgate and directed by Rian Johnson, landed in second place with about $14.2 million in sales this weekend, its second in theaters.
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Rian Johnson's skillfully executed whodunit is filled with wonderful acting, production design, costuming (I ran out and bought three sweaters after watching it), but the biggest thing is the writing.
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Dead ends are to be expected in the middle of an eight-hour whodunit, but that doesn't absolve the series's creator, Nic Pizzolatto, from the responsibility to keep plugging away.
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"This is a fascinating real-life 'whodunit' and it shows how new technology can be applied to solve old problems," said paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London.
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" In Jonasson's classically crafted Icelandic whodunit, blinding snowstorms lash the village: "The snow covered ground was so white that it had almost banished the winter night's darkness, elemental in its purity.
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The plot contains echoes of "Strangers on a Train" as well as "Murder on the Orient Express" (director Kenneth Branagh's all-star remake of the Agatha Christie whodunit opens next month).
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Jeremy Renner is a game tracker who teams up with an ill-prepared (yet consistently underestimated) F.B.I. agent (Elizabeth Olsen, in her second film of the week) to find out whodunit.
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He thinks so little of this woman's humanity that as an answer to the film's whodunit, he strips her in front of her superiors with the help of NFL superstar Dan Marino.
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The Missing follows a tried and true formula of TV storytelling, a whodunit in which eachepisode ends with such a compelling cliffhanger, it's impossible not to dig into the next one rightaway.
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It's hard to follow up the double whammy of whodunit and whohaditduntothem that propelled the first season, so there's reason to wonder whether "Will they get caught?" is a worthy enough sequel.
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Where the first one pulled from a lot of clichés and tropes from your '80s high school movies, this one is a mystery, a whodunit, a [expletive] weird Brian De Palma movie.
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White-collar crime is often quite different, resembling more a thousand-piece puzzle than a whodunit as prosecutors try to put together tidbits of information that can add up to a conviction.
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It dove full force into a small-town whodunit: Murder victim Laura Palmer was (naturally) the town's most prized blonde teen, and she (naturally) turned out to be hiding some terrible secrets.
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Produced by the Duplass brothers (who also made Wild, Wild Country), the docuseries goes beyond the heist itself to reveal a truly bizarre cast of characters caught up in an increasingly wild whodunit.
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"Big Little Lies" thus works on multiple levels, mixing its jaundiced view of these one-percenters with not just a whodunit but also a why-dunit that it's in no hurry to reveal.
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The film version is a solid if unspectacular thriller, one that hinges on a time-bending whodunit that's twisty, to be sure, but whose payoff falls well short of the ride getting there.
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Then out of that came, "What if there was our version of a whodunit — a This Is Us/Murder She Wrote," where there's a clue that taps into the obsessive side of Randall.
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Published in 1980 to international acclaim, Eco sets his monastic whodunit in a Benedictine abbey's labyrinthine library called the Aedificium, which houses the lost second part of Aristotle's Poetics (the part about comedy).
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WASHINGTON — Look closely enough, and the document charging Paul Manafort with money laundering, tax evasion and foreign lobbying reads less like a 12-count federal indictment and more like the ultimate spendthrift whodunit.
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With the right approach, a complicated whodunit can supply truths about the best and worst of the human condition, even when the "truth" of the case is destined to remain beyond our grasp.
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A stacked cast of suspects that includes Chris Evans, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Toni Colette combine to create a classic whodunit that earned a nod for Best Motion Picture at the Golden Globes.
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Although A.H. Weiler dismissed the film as "a whodunit that begs the question of why it was made" in his New York Times review, the movie went on to become a horror classic.
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A 'whodunit' tale, the film follows Brannagh's detective as he seeks to unmask a murderer among the passengers on board the glamorous train, trapped by an avalanche in mountainous terrain in southern Europe.
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It's an odd choice for adaptation at all, because you (the executive) will have to find a way to blend social comedy, whodunit, feminist art critique, and maternal trauma into one coherent blockbuster.
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"Knives Out," a whodunit murder mystery starring Daniel Craig and Chris Evans, and the romantic drama "Queen & Slim," which stars Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith, are both new to theaters this weekend.
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The frustration mounts and mounts until Anne can finally, at last, open the letter, and the reader gets the same satisfaction as knowing whodunit in a murder mystery: At last, all is revealed.
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Part metaphorical (which it jokes about halfway through), part homage to old Hollywood, part whodunit, and part social commentary on an America reeling from mid-century chaos, it's overstuffed but still feels controlled.
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The show reorients itself and nearly switches genre: It is no longer a Whodunit but a long-form character study, a dual portrait of two legal crusaders, and an examination of the appeals process.
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For a novel adaptation that's more "who am I" than "whodunit," hold off on "The Pale Horse" and consider instead this coming-of-age drama, based on the Y.A. best seller by Jerry Spinelli.
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" For defense lawyers seeking to spare their client's life, an appeal to efficiency is one of the few cards they can play — particularly when, as Mr. Finkelstein says, the "case is not a whodunit.
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So his central presence in "The Limehouse Golem," a baroque Victorian whodunit set in London's East End, is like a wink-wink signal that what we're seeing is being played for laughs, not scares.
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Not only had he solved the whodunit of Olympic Destroyer's origin, he'd gone further, showing that the culprit had been implicated in the most notorious hacking campaign ever to hit the American political system.
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"Big Little Lies" resolved the whodunit through a version of the "Murder on the Orient Express" gambit: Everybody done it, or at least — if Bonnie gave the final push — had a hand in it.
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It's only when these two narratives — the first a compelling coming-of-age chronicle, and the second a more prosaic whodunit — converge that they squeeze the life out of the story in the middle.
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According to The Hollywood Reporter, writer-director Rian Johnson is working on a sequel to his amazing whodunit Knives Out with an eye toward centering the film on Daniel Craig's detective character, Benoit Blanc.
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But through her production company Pacific Standard, the actress is now bringing Liane Moriarty's female-driven novel Big Little Lies to HBO as a seven-part whodunit drama with a healthy dose of acerbic humor.
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While that arrangement could probably be made clearer in the film, "House Two" is compulsively watchable — a nonfiction whodunit that methodically sifts through evidence to establish the circumstances surrounding the killings in a Haditha home.
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This whodunit detective drama, which first aired in 1997, follows Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby (John Nettles) and later his cousin John Barnaby (Neil Dudgeon), as they investigate bizarre murders across the picturesque English countryside.
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What follows is a flashback to how that happened, and toward the end it's a little like playing Clue, where you know the victim and the murder weapon and you're waiting to find out whodunit.
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The difference is that where Brick is an ode to Dashiell Hammett and his followers, Knives Out is a blend of an Agatha Christie detail-oriented household murder-mystery and an Alfred Hitchcock twisty whodunit.
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But what gives Knives Out that extra edge is the 2019 of it all — it's a classic whodunit that feels perfectly suited to our own dysfunctional times, with a surprisingly hopeful message at its core.
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LONDON — After 56 years and many investigations, there is new hope that secrets lurking in Western intelligence archives could solve the biggest whodunit in United Nations history: the mysterious death of Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold.
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"The central spine of that story of is the death of Liza Minnelli's character, and a bit of whodunit, who may have done it, who had something to do with it," Bateman said during the interview.
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In 2015 the second season told the story of Bowe Bergdahl, an American soldier captured by the Taliban; but as a reported story rather than a pulpy whodunit it was less popular with fans and critics.
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Rian Johnson follows up "The Last Jedi" with directing this whodunit that has some of the best talent working today starring in it: Daniel Craig, Michael Shannon, Chris Evans, Jamie Lee Curtis, Christopher Plummer, Lakeith Stanfield.
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First, there's the whodunit, in which readers scramble to catch up with clever detectives (Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple, Nero Wolfe) as they solve complicated crimes committed by someone who may be standing right next to them.
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Neither "Richard Jewell" nor "Black Christmas" was able to overtake Lionsgate's "Knives Out," a whodunit from the director Rian Johnson that brought in an estimated $9.3 million in ticket sales this weekend, its third in theaters.
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This whodunit by Rian Johnson received plenty of Golden Globe love: The Hollywood Foreign Press Association nominated "Knives Out" for best comedy or musical and recognized both of its leads, Daniel Craig and Ana de Armas.
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Described by Johnson as an Agatha Christie-inspired whodunit with a starry cast, a Hitchcockian flair, and a modern American setting, Knives Out centers on a family gathering that goes sour when one member turns up dead.
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The gun is the first thing that goes off in "Paradise Blue," but it's something of a red herring; although the play is structured as a flashback whodunit, no one has much of a motive to kill.
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In contrast to Serial's flashy, obsessive and ultimately unresolved whodunit, Ms. Baran's jumps off from the story of one crime to tell a much bigger tale — one implicating an entire sheriff's office in decades of failed policing.
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Giles, a founding member of We Need Diverse Books and two-time Edgar Award finalist, is in top form, weaving together the threads of his whodunit-and-why and resonantly depicting his characters' home and school lives.
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The Olympic Destroyer whodunit was only solved weeks later, when FireEye and Kaspersky analysts tied a phishing document used to plant the malware to a collection of other malicious files that had been used in previous attacks.
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Rian Johnson&aposs whodunit, which he made after doing "The Last Jedi," has brought in over $28 million in the Middle Kingdom, which is more than what "The Rise of Skywalker" has earned there (over $17 million).
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In "Knives Out," the writer and director Rian Johnson pays tribute to Agatha Christie and "Clue" in a star-studded whodunit that begins with the mysterious death of the wealthy author and patriarch Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer).
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Washington is already getting consumed with speculation about who wrote the op-ed, the city's biggest literary whodunit since the 1996 novel "Primary Colors," loosely based on the Clintons, was revealed as the work of Joe Klein.
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Between becoming the best-selling novelist of all time and developing and codifying the tropes that would define her genre, Christie had time to craft one of the most iconic whodunit reveals in all of mystery writing.
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Critic's Notebook When ship manifests and immigration rosters fail to produce an aha moment in the popular PBS genealogy whodunit, "Finding Your Roots," the show's host, Henry Louis Gates Jr., often has a sleuth card up his sleeve.
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MANILA — It is a financial whodunit for the digital era: More than $80 million of Bangladesh's money vanished last month after it was electronically transferred out of that country's account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
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Ultimately, amidst its doppelgänger intrigue and a narrative as twisted as the streets of the Hollywood Hills, Gemini applies whodunit logic to today's social-media driven celebrity moment, exposing its victims without ever fully critiquing the culture itself.
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It's not that these movies shy away from heavy themes: Taika Waititi's Jojo Rabbit is, after all, a child's-eye-view comedy about Nazism, while Rian Johnson gives his whodunit romp Knives Out a sharp pro-immigrant edge.
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This classically crafted whodunit holds up nicely, but Jonasson's true gift is for describing the daunting beauty of the fierce setting, lashed by blinding snowstorms that smother the village in "a thick, white darkness" that is strangely comforting.
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By the second part of the film, World on a Wire has developed into a full blown whodunit, where the distinction between reality and simulation becomes so uncertain that it is impossible to tell the difference between the two.
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There's no need to apologize or go full whodunit; the only thing that matters, from a health perspective, is that everyone who could possibly have come in contact with the STI gets tested and treated for it, Lehmiller said.
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But through her production company Pacific Standard, the actress brought Liane Moriarty's female-driven novel Big Little Lies — which just won the Golden Globe — to HBO as a seven-part whodunit drama with a healthy dose of acerbic humor.
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You're an armchair detective in need of a new crime to ponder For anyone who enjoys trying to figure out "whodunit" while watching crime dramas play out, The Night Of keeps viewers guessing throughout the entirety of the series.
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In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Shawkat said that with the fresh blood Dory and her friends have on their hands, season two feels less like a whodunit mystery and more like something out of a Hitchcock movie.
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The jury trial is the greatest method we have to determine what happened or whodunit, yet in the federal system determinations of guilt are made not by 12 citizens but more often than not by a single civil servant.
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In shifting to the early days of the trial, "Samson and Delilah" foregrounds the whodunit aspects of the show, which means revealing new information on Naz and offering some more suspects who may or may not be red herrings.
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Set in a Brooklyn brownstone, the narrative follows the trio of 20-somethings as they attempt to solve the whodunit; while they're not budding young venture capitalists or another targeted type, they still might be the killer's next victims.
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Dame Agatha happens to figure tangentially in this uncommonly clever whodunit, which makes plentiful references to her books, plot twists, settings and even the 11 days in 1926 when she inexplicably disappeared — all while coming across as madly original.
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Stuffed with famous and blurrily familiar faces, the movie takes the shape of an old-fashioned whodunit — the kind with mystery, suspense, entertainment, a corpse on an heirloom settee and a half-dozen or so shifty suspects milling about.
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The whodunit aspects tend to grow less important over time, to the point where a cabal of industrial and municipal power brokers was the true villain of the second season, and the inciting murder was resolved with a shrug.
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You either know of Twin Peaks because you are a fan of cult classics and whodunit shows (with a twist), or, you just know it pop-culturally because of the iconic soundtrack and unique premise of the artistically-minded series.
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When Tiffany Haddish mentioned to GQ's April issue that an actress allegedly "on drugs" bit Queen Bey's face at a party, the Last O.G. star had no idea that she'd set the Internet ablaze with 2018's biggest case of whodunit.
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Times review: "'Moose Murders,' A Brand of Whodunit," a 1983 theater review by Frank Rich From now on, there will always be two groups of theatergoers in this world: those who have seen "Moose Murders," and those who have not.
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Read more: "Knives Out" is a delightful whodunit from "The Last Jedi" director, who proves he can still make a great original storyBased on the book "Caging Skies" by Christine Leunens, Waititi has crafted a very singular coming-of-age tale.
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His brash behavior made him less of a subject of news media scrutiny than other current and former aides to President Trump — like the character in a whodunit whom readers immediately dismiss as too obvious to have committed the crime.
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Created by Panoply's head of scripted content, John Dryden, "Passenger List" is loosely inspired by the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370; Mr. Dryden has described it as a mash-up of an Agatha Christie whodunit and a political thriller.
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It was a gothic whodunit for the internet age, replete with prostitutes, drugs, family dysfunction, investigative incompetence, not to mention a strange, insular beach community and, of course, the websites of Craigslist and Backpage, where the women had advertised for customers.
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Knives Out is a new whodunit for fans of old ones, in the same way Brick appealed to film noir fans with a high school flavor, or how Looper spun a satisfying time-travel story by going as small as possible.
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Instead of Colonel Mustard or Miss Scarlett figuring out whodunit in the library with the candlestick, you can pick Han, Leia, or other classic O.G. characters to find the secret Death Star plans, discover Vader's next target, and defeat the Empire.
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R. In a similar vein to her previous novel Eileen, Moshfegh brings us the dark, suspenseful, and morbidly funny whodunit Death in Her Hands, which follows elderly widow Vesta Gul as she happens upon a mystery that quickly obsesses her.
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The PG-13 whodunit "Knives Out" arrived in second place in North America, powered by a filmmaker with a large fan base (Rian Johnson), exceptional reviews (96 percent positive on Rotten Tomatoes) and a starry cast (Daniel Craig, Jamie Lee Curtis).
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The fun in reading "The Next to Die" — even when the scaffolding fails to fully support the structure — isn't in learning whodunit, but in following the labyrinthine byways of its author's peculiar worldview and the twisted motives of her characters.
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If The Witch Elm is her most compelling and urgent novel in years, it's not entirely because of the plot — a somewhat convoluted mystery in which the whodunit matters only slightly — but because French's masterful character study is absolutely riveting and timely.
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"What I really like about it is that it's really the only whodunit—or whosangit—show on television, and the fact that it's all well-known celebrities…So the people under the mask are really the star of the show," Thicke told E!
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This tightly-plotted whodunit (briskly translated from the German by Peter Millar) uproots Capitaine Roger Blanc from his prestigious office in the Paris gendarmerie to the Midi, "the graveyard of any career," where he has inherited a run-down 18th-century stone house.
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As things stand now, I lose 45 minutes every week to the retrieval of forgotten passwords, and I recently got three-quarters of the way through a mystery before realizing that I knew whodunit, how he dun it and why he dun it.
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"What I really like about it is that it's really the only whodunit — or whosangit — show on television, and the fact that it's all well-known celebrities…So the people under the mask are really the star of the show," Thicke previously told E!
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In the movie, Johnson assembles an all-star cast made up of Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Christopher Plummer, Toni Collette, Lakeith Stanfield, and Don Johnson for a whodunit in the vein of an Agatha Christie novel or Alfred Hitchcock movie.
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Set during a European vacation, the film stars Sandler as a New York police officer and Aniston as his mystery novel-obsessed wife, whose fixation pays off after there's a murder on a yacht and the couple tries to rebuff suspicion by figuring out whodunit.
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" There is so much suggestiveness that eventually the narrative must, and does, lead to a crime, though in Modiano's handling the story becomes less a whodunit than a way out of what he describes as the "tangled dream from which I had just awoken.
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The theft led to a manhunt that included an elaborate Facebook post from the local police, who created a whodunit video set to Dr. Seuss's "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" theme song and noted that restaurant employees had pooled their money to buy the tree.
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Then there's a rotating set of B, C and D plots — be it his ugly war with Ted Cruz, his running feud with the Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly or the whodunit surrounding the lifted passages in the convention speech given by his wife, Melania Trump.
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The plot starts off as a classic whodunit involving a local investigation of the mysterious death of Manon Vinet, a beautiful Frenchwoman whose body is found battered on the rocks of Hell Bay on one of the smallest of the Isles of Scilly, just off the Cornish coast.
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Jacques Demy's musical comic drama "Les Demoiselles de Rochefort" (1967) was one of several occasions when Ms. Darrieux played Catherine Deneuve's mother; among the others was François Ozon's 20043 all-star musical whodunit, "Huit Femmes" ("8 Women"), about a household with only one man in it, a dead one.
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True, the almost Dadaist, apparently improvisational banter they brought to "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" and "Step Brothers" has been tempered this time by familiarity, the constraints of the period setting and the need for the movie to follow of the contours of a lackluster whodunit.
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Even as new books and operas and TV shows get the sort of billing and promotion they could hardly have hoped for a few years ago, the lure of the Jack the Ripper tale as we know it — a grisly whodunit with a patina of social history — remains strong.
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"The fact is, we may never definitively know the answer to that question — but ID will re-explore every angle, every shred of evidence, and every 'whodunit' theory to allow our viewers to draw their own conclusions on the case," said Henry Schleiff, the president of ID, as Variety reports.
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This is a novel that will probably be called Hitchcockian at some point along the way, and that's a reasonable association, but the author's true predecessor (cue that Greek chorus) is a far earlier master of suspense who understood that narrative itself could be the most important character in a whodunit.
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Cozier than "Blood Simple," more perverse than "Murder She Wrote" — with a dash of "Lysistrata" thrown in for some sly sexual table-turning — "Blow the Man Down" isn't a whodunit as much as a will-they-get-away-with-it caper, given even more ironic humor by its quaintly innocent setting.
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In Christie's expansive repertoire — more than 200 novels, stories and plays, from "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" (1920) to "Sleeping Murder" (1976) — she captures something elemental about mysteries: that motive and opportunity may suffice for a crime, but the satisfying part is the detective's revelation of whodunit, how and why.
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In the third installment of Wes Craven's slasher franchise, the hapless Sidney Prescott (Neve Cambpell) chooses to live in self-imposed isolation, only to be dragged back into a bloody whodunit when the actors in "Stab 3" — the latest in a scary-movie series based on Sidney's life — are murdered one by one.
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For the growing number of us who have come to obsess over it, and the community of online sleuths devoted to solving it, the mystery surrounding the perpetrator known only as the Long Island Serial Killer is closer in atmosphere to the chthonic landscape of David Lynch's Lost Highway than a conventional whodunit.
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But through her production company Pacific Standard, the actress brought Liane Moriarty's female-driven novel Big Little Lies — which just won the Emmy for outstanding limited series — to HBO as a seven-part whodunit drama with a healthy dose of acerbic humor Watch the full episode of People & Entertainment Weekly Red Carpet Live, streaming now on PeopleTV.
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"One of the things that forensic pathology has to do over the next few years is to find other ways to expand its reach, other than the traditional bullet-pulling, quantification-of-injuries whodunit as you see on TV." Later that week, he planned to drive to Benbow and Pechal's lab to deliver the swab samples.
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While the genre is not new—its roots in pop culture can be traced to writer Edmund Pearson's 1924 Lizzie Borden book Studies in Murder—there's no denying that true crime is having a major moment, one fueled by streaming services and all-crime-all-the-time networks that feed an ever-growing audience hungry for whodunit docs.
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In mystery dramas, certain surprises and "Oh my God, I did not see that coming!" moments are to be expected, and on Sunday night's (March 19) episode, "Saint John," a revelation is unearthed for which even the most seasoned whodunit watchers wouldn't have caught Even star detective Jean Baptiste (Tcheky Karyo) didn't realize it until now.
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And Mr. Hawley spends the rest of the book presenting what would be a variation on the classic locked-room whodunit, except for the big and noisy new element he throws in: an egomaniacal talk show commentator, Bill Cunningham, who is obsessed with the plane crash and determined to mourn and exploit the death of his boss.
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As the teen whodunit delves deeper into the murder of ginger golden boy Jason Blossom (Trevor Stines), the newest blazing tresses of note belong to '80s icon Molly Ringwald, who will play Mary Andrews, mom to Archie Andrews (KJ Apa) and soon-to-be ex-wife of Fred Andrews (played by none other than '90s heartthrob Luke Perry).
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" — Colson Whitehead, in an interview at the Vancouver Writers Festival A 'New' Mystery From Gardner In 1959 in The Times, Gay Talese wrote about the prolific author (and inventor of Perry Mason) Erle Stanley Gardner, calling him the "kingpin among the mystery writers, a whodunit carpenter whose pocket books in drugstores sell nearly as fast as aspirins.
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Folks go to the luxury theater chain to watch Knives Out in a bougie chair while they sip a Whodunit Highball, or get drunk at drag brunch during a screening of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, or dress up as a cat and go see CATS, which is a thing some people apparently want to do.
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But — and this would be the first of many buts — the prosecution also pointed out that there were some serious wobbles in his alibi, which leaned on his daughter and a good friend (not exactly impartial observers, they note), and a common-sense, if knotty, question at the heart of the case: If Nick Hillary didn't do it, then whodunit?
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While there is a whodunit aspect to the novel (and a spectacular twist at the end), much of the book's 560-plus pages are devoted to probing Mikami's domestic life with his wife, a former detective, as they navigate their marriage after their daughter runs away, and exploring the treacherous police bureaucracy and its combative relations with the news media.
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Whether you choose to watch all ten episodes with subtitles or in the wonky English-dubbed version, the complex, generational whodunit plays with Primer-level physics and a swelling fear of nuclear disaster in a way that will surely please those of us who are still depressed that Twin Peaks: The Return is over, Mindhunter went by too fast, and Stranger Things wasn't strange enough.
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Following the familiar pattern of a classic "whodunit," Fatwa articulates the complex social issues that contribute to radicalization in a manner that is rather bleak: a cloistered culture of toxic masculinity that produces an echo chamber of violent ideas; the desire to control women and their bodies in the guise of spiritual righteousness; and the opportunism of agitators who see an opening to preach hate and gain power in a society still reeling from the effects of political upheaval.
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But having genre elements isn't the same thing as fitting into a genre, and in that vein, S-Town is less a true-crime whodunit than a kaleidoscopic non-fiction novel in the shape of a true crime–tinged podcast, one whose narrative preoccupations are more tied to the spirit and myriad complexities of a place (in this case, the tiny rural town of Woodstock, Alabama) than the combustible tension of a mystery to be solved — though, there is a murder mystery involved, too.
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The leaking of the dozens of questions for President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE from special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerTrump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony Kellyanne Conway: 'I'd like to know' if Mueller read his own report MORE has launched a Beltway version of a whodunit mystery.
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