Glass Onion

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🎙️ EPISODE 660: 03.08.23 Part of 2022 Week! While I find Rian Johnson's films to be pretty entertaining overall, they're also simultaneously exhausting, and have grown exponentially in that department over the years. It's a weird combination. Hopefully, Glass Onion with all its COVID and cultural references marks some kind of tipping point in that department because IT'S A LOT. But the greater flaw here isn't the stilted sociopolitical commentary; it's the same basic thing which plagued Knives Out (which is clearly the better movie): it's nowhere near as clever as it thinks it is. Everything's fine until Johnson writes himself into a corner numerous times: someone tries to kill Janelle Monáe but he needs her to live = have a little notepad in her coat pocket stop the bullet; there needs to be one more big climactic set-piece but everything's been solved = have Ed Norton conveniently snatch and burn the evidence against him. Those are just two examples. For a movie franchise whose entire schtick seems to be based around this masterful mystery motif, it's astonishing how middling the execution is on that front.

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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (titled onscreen as simply Glass Onion) is a 2022 American mystery film written and directed by Rian Johnson and produced by Johnson and Ram Bergman. It is a standalone sequel to the 2019 film Knives Out, with Daniel Craig reprising his role as master detective Benoit Blanc as he takes on a new case revolving around tech billionaire Miles Bron (played by Edward Norton) and his closest friends. The ensemble cast also includes Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Jessica Henwick, Madelyn Cline, Kate Hudson, and Dave Bautista. It was released on September 10, 2022.