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Review: As all-star whodunits go, 'Glass Onion' has enormous appeal

Edward Norton, left, as Miles, Madelyn Cline as Whiskey and Daniel Craig as Det.

The key word in "Glass Onion," Rian Johnson's enjoyably deft sequel to "Knives Out," is "disruption." The friends who've descended on a Greek island paradise are game-changing innovators in the fields of fashion (Kate Hudson), science (Leslie Odom Jr.), politics (Kathryn Hahn) and toxic masculinity (Dave Bautista). Their host is a smug, name-dropping, eminently punchable billionaire whose resemblance to a certain newly installed social media titan could scarcely have been better planned or timed. And, of course, a post-007 Daniel Craig is back in the mix as Blanc, Benoit Blanc, that genteel charmer of a Southern sleuth who can always be counted on to disrupt a killer's scheme, even as he

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