Review: As all-star whodunits go, 'Glass Onion' has enormous appeal
by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
Nov 23, 2022
4 minutes
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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