“Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery” is an enticingly clever and droll, nearly pitch-perfect piece of murder-mystery fun — a whodunit that lives up to the expectations set six years ago by “Knives Out,” which offered its own perfect revival of the Agatha Christie spirit, with a tasty frosting of meta cheekiness. (It invited you to watch yourself watching yourself try to solve a deviously orchestrated crime.) Three years ago, “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” was just as clever, but like a lot of sequels to iconic hits it brandished a go-big-or-go-home quality that made it, in the end, a bit too top-heavy. It was still
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