Peeling the "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery"

Hey team,

I mentioned earlier that I've been watching a lot of heist movies lately.  I've also been watching some heist-adjacent movies, including "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery" (2022). Let's talk about it!

I went into this movie with mixed expectations.  The film's predecessor, "Knives Out" (2019) was fun in a splashy ensemble-cast-in-a-fancy-setting way, but was somewhat underwhelming.  However, I heard from a few people whose movie opinions I trust that the sequel was actually better than its forebear.  Being in a mood for a pretty but relatively low stakes movie, I went for it.

Funnily enough, as we were starting the film, I remarked to Husband that I haven't recently watched a murder mystery and tried to crack it before all the secrets are revealed at the end--I just haven't felt emotionally invested enough to put in the mental work to do my own armchair sleuthing.  Instead, I'm generally perfectly content to be carried along by the twists and turns of these movies, like I'm floating along on a pleasant cinematic lazy river, until they do that math for me.

And then!  I actually was so drawn into "Glass Onion" that I paused it multiple times to announce my theories of who dun the it, and what the it actually even was.  Because this is a truly delightful, excellent murder mystery movie!

In addition to its engagingly twisty turny plot, "Glass Onion" boasts an astonishing set (which, incidentally, could be yours for the low low price of literally $450 million), counterbalanced by an equally astonishing star-packed cast, including, of course, Daniel Craig at his Foghorn Leghorn-y best(?), Janelle Monáe, Edward Norton (a favorite of the blog), Kate Hudson, Leslie Odom Jr., Dave Bautista, and the possibly over-saturated but still very fun to watch Kathryn Hahn, as well as some extremely entertaining cameos, my favorite of which belongs to Serena Williams.

It's glitzy, it's splashy, it's escapist, and for good measure it includes a little opening to be interpreted as social commentary.  All in all, this is a fun and thoroughly entertaining movie.

I gave it a 5.

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