What the corpus says about Knives Out (2019)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Knives Out (2019) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about Knives Out (2019) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 0:41:29 · Joe Reid (0.45)] Knives Out ↔ Knives Out · theme · The twist is that Ana de Armas's Ana de Armas's character probably will give them the money because she is a good person. · "I think the twist at the end of knives out is that she probably is going to give them the money"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 0:16:32 · Joe Reid (0.50)] Parasite ↔ Knives Out · contrast · Both are true ensembles, so neither could campaign a single acting nominee. · "The same thing happened to knives out, actually."
[The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 1:36:51 · Wesley Morris (0.40)] Knives Out ↔ Looper · people · Brick, Brothers Bloom, and Looper are variations on a theme told in different tones. · "variations on a theme, told in different tones that are hugely influenced"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 1:28:30 · Ben Hosley (0.50)] Knives Out ↔ Knives Out · what-if · Ben: 'Chains Out': same cast, but the murder method is a chain. · "chains out."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 1:00:28 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Daniel Craig ↔ Knives Out · career · Craig's Skyfall is his Apex Mountain; Knives Out lacks equal power. · "He's pretty great in knives out."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 0:41:57 · Joe Reid (0.40)] Daniel Craig ↔ Knives Out · verdict · Craig is nominated as a lead (the Blankies put him in the supporting ranking, which the speaker questions); speaker also wants him to grow a mustache. · "I want a little bit of distance from Daniel Craig in that performance visually."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 1:16:51 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] K Callan ↔ Knives Out · verdict · Putters and Murmurs shout-out; who played 'Mock Kent' on Lewis and Clark: the Adventures of Superman (as transcribed). · "But K. Callan, who played Mock Kent on Lewis and Clark the Adventures of Superman."
[The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 1:37:02 · Wesley Morris (0.40)] Knives Out ↔ Rian Johnson · sampler · Johnson is a genre island hopper and good sampler whose references inform rather than annoy, like DJ Premier. · "He's a good sampler."
[The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 1:35:52 · Wesley Morris (0.40)] Knives Out · fun · The Sweet Virginia needle drop at the end, with the heroine looking out over the family from the balcony, is Wesley's satisfaction peak. · "when the sweet Virginia needle drop hits at the end of the movie and she's looking out over them on the balcony, I was like, that's a fucking movie."
[The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:29:10 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Nomadland ↔ Parasite · programming · The National Society of Film Critics has picked Best Picture winners that later became cool-kid Academy picks, such as Parasite, Moonlight and Spotlight. · "they have picked some best picture winners, um, in recent memory parasite."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 1:48:36 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40)] Parasite ↔ Get Out · theme · Parasite is smart social satire that slips easily into horror, which fits the episode's broader horror talk. · "it's smart social satire that just very easily slips into horror"
[speaker] Joe Reid · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · Loves performance-driven work (Elisabeth Moss in Her Smell, Paul Walter Hauser in Richard Jewell) and likes Toy Story 4 less than Frozen 2. Defends Frozen 2's queer subtext and Wild Rose. · stances: Frozen 2 deserved nominations for its Elsa storytelling; Hauser's lack of judgment as the best acting; Gendered acting categories exist because winners matter
[speaker] Wesley Morris · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · Loves Marisa Tomei, the grits scene, and the clothes; is a sucker for Fran Drescher. Dislikes car-driving-away endings and thinks the film has done harm by encouraging self-representation. · stances: Tomei deserved the Oscar; Race in courtroom movies matters, and this one is warmly integrated; The Nanny is basically Mona Lisa Vito
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[speaker] Ben Hosley · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Producer who occasionally talks; admits no religious background, has a Catholic mother's family, and cannot see the Bible as part of culture. · stances: Left out of Bible culture; Wants a clear demarcation between a bed and a deathbed
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with Knives Out (2019); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Knives Out (2019) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.