It’s increasingly difficult to find crowd-pleasing franchise entertainment that doesn’t feature superheroes or space wizards. Sure, this Oscar season brought us Top Gun: Maverick, but that took nearly 40 years to deliver. Insert Glass Onion—a wonderfully executed whodunnit that continues its predecessor’s knack for successfully iterating on one of film’s most beloved, and overused, genres.
There’s so much to like in Glass Onion, starting with Daniel Craig’s second go at Benoit Blanc, director Rian Johnson’s Southern, modern version of Hercule Poirot. He really lets loose in this one, even more so than in Knives Out, and his scene-chewing spreads throughout the film’s stacked case like a fever. It’s an absolute romp heightened through a fantastically funny script that both subverts and praises its genre roots.
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