Funny, thoughtful and beautifully shot. It was always going to be hard to follow the success of Knives Out, so I'm glad Johnson went with a very different film. Although the endings 'dumbness' has been criticised by some other reviewers, the simplicity of the case was pretty clearly telegraphed by the title and recurrent metaphor.

It's is not the careful, cunning whodunit of the previous film. Instead it's a joyful skewering of the modern Gilded Age and its foibles. But this isn't to say that there's no 'detective work' for the audience to engage in. Unlike many other movies of the genre, careful observation throughout the movie reveals all the clues necessary without having to have it all explained. Highly enjoyable!