"Knives Out" is a cozy little mystery movie, but it's also a story that's deeply interested in the political discourse of its time. Set in the long-ago pre-pandemic days of 2019, the movie treats us early on to a party conversation between a bunch of Thrombey family members that suddenly gets political. Some of the Thrombeys are Trump supporters who support his controversial immigration policies, and some of them are liberals who find his policies unforgivable.
Although the Thrombeys are far...