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Director: Rian Johnson

Rian Johnson began with Brick, a high school film shot in hardboiled detective grammar with Chandler dialogue coming out of teenagers, made for almost nothing. The willingness to impose one genre’s rules on another material has continued through everything since.

Looper, The Last Jedi and the Knives Out films all set up an expectation and then refuse it. The Last Jedi remains the most divisive Star Wars film, largely because it treats legacy and inheritance as things to be questioned.

Knives Out revived the whodunit commercially and gave the form a modern class politics it had usually avoided.

Edward Norton as Miles Bron stands in a glass dome surrounded by expensive art and stolen objects on his private Greek

Glass Onion (2022) Review

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A tech billionaire's private island weekend where the solution is that the clever man has nothing inside. Better as satire than as a puzzle.

Brick (2005) film poster

Brick (2005)

Rian Johnson's 2005 high school neo-noir debut. Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Dashiell Hammett character among teenagers.

Knives Out (2019) film poster

Knives Out (2019)

Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc. Launched continuing franchise.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) film poster

Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

Star Wars: The Last Jedi is the middle entry of the Disney-era sequel trilogy. Rian Johnson wrote and directed.

Looper (2012) film poster

Looper (2012) Review

Rian Johnson's time travel thriller. Joseph Gordon-Levitt transforming into Bruce Willis through accumulated choices.