Overview
- The third Benoit Blanc film opened in select theaters on November 26 and will stream globally on Netflix on December 12.
- Early reception is strong, with 94% critic and 94% audience scores on Rotten Tomatoes, which Forbes reports as franchise-best audience marks and career highs for Rian Johnson and Daniel Craig.
- Netflix’s push includes a newly released poster and a Sesame Street crossover clip featuring a puppet detective riff on Benoit Blanc.
- Collider set an FYC screening in Los Angeles on December 5 with an in-person Q&A featuring writer-director Rian Johnson.
- Set around a church-set locked-room mystery, the film reflects Johnson’s darker thematic turn, as Daniel Craig defends Blanc’s deliberately exaggerated persona in recent interviews.