Movie Review: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Wake Up Dead Man arrives during awards season, though Wake Up Dead Man isn't really an awards season film. It's simply the type of holiday season fare that we adore. It's frequently humorous though not frivolously so. It's fiercely engaging and beautifully, quite beautifully, shot. The social satire is abundant, however, it's devoid of the maliciousness far too frequently present these days. It's overly long, however, at times it feels not quite long enough.
While many celebrity memoirs are not much more than Hollywood storytelling and a step-by-step journey through a career, Curry's memoir feels like a memoir constantly reminding us of how his upbringing shaped who he's become and how his humanity feeds his remarkable portrayals. For those who know Curry's story, such a memoir would be incomplete without a journey into the 2012 stroke that changed his life and his career.
