Boys or Girls at the age of 66 after about five decades
Taking on the challenge of matching its successful predecessor, “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” keeps the formula tight, a setup that feels more clearly like an Agatha Christie homage before a series of very clever twists kick in. Writer-director Rian Johnson has once again assembled a solid cast behind Daniel Craig, but it’s his use of language, where a word is wasted, that ultimately gives the sequel its edge.
Netflix took opportunistic steps to acquire the “Knives Out” franchise, and unlike its usual “stroking the filmmakers’ pride” approach to theatrical distribution, it’s actually giving the film a one-week release before hitting the streaming service in late December. Most people will probably still wait to binge it in the comfort of their homes, but for those who indulge, it certainly plays well with an appreciative audience.
After the family dynamic in “Knives Out,” which gave everyone a motive to kill the patriarch, Johnson tries his luck in a different scenario, when an eccentric billionaire, Miles Bronn (Edward Norton), invites his old friends to his deserted Greek island for Murder: Mystery Escape (during Covid, no less), where they will be tasked with solving “murders.”
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