Glass Onion

Glass Onion is more than just Knives Out 2, it is an equally funny, entertaining, and properly executed whodunnit from Rian Johnson and starring Daniel ...

They surprise, frustrate, and delight us in so many ways as the story is told that solving the mystery is second to the sheer fun of watching these absurd people do absurd things. When you do finally get the answers to the questions that are the foundation stones of the story, upon which everything else is built, they make sense. There has been no shortage recently of shows and films that poke fun at the uber-rich to the delight (not to mention the schadenfreude) of audiences. What gives Glass Onion its uniqueness and its entertainment value is the means by which this is explored. The first Knives Out used the Drysdale family's response to one immigrant (Ana De Armas' Marta) to highlight the broader way in which different veins of political society respond to immigration as a whole. We already know someone turns up dead — but the who, the how, and the whodunnit will all remain a mystery within this review (ie.

The sequel to Knives Out is a rip-roaring good time with a little murder along the way. Here's our review of Netflix's Glass Onion.

[Daniel Craig](https://www.lifestyleasia.com/ind/culture/entertainment/everything-we-know-about-no-time-to-die-story-cast-theme-daniel-craig-trailer/) is sporting a somewhat over-the-top yet at the same time pretty accurate Southern drawl. But a whodunit isn’t a whodunit without the twists, and my goodness is this film twisty. Much like how Blanc is the colourful, Southern, and more convivial version of Bond, Johnson’s Knives Out is the less stuffy, less moustachioed, and kookier version of the Agatha Christie film adaptations (interestingly, Leslie Odom Jr. The cast is just one piece of the puzzle in this whole whodunit. But again, Johnson is able to balance mystery, tension, and comedy to a tee. But with Netflix’s Glass Onion, the challenge director and writer Rian Johnson faced is doing another twisty whodunit with an ensemble cast and still make it feel fresh, fun, and un-formulaic.

We'll join the action just after the flashback following Benoit Blanc and Helen-as-Andi ends, when the Distuptors realise Duke's pistol is missing and Helen's ...

And Miles' murders are the essence of what makes him such a charlatan. Like his Glass Onion building they look complex, but there's nothing in the middle of them. Eventually, they work up to destroying the one thing, as he puts it, that nobody wants destroyed: the Mona Lisa. Klear kills him, and ensures he'll get his wish to be mentioned in the same breath as the Mona Lisa. His mates smashing those artworks is, weirdly enough, a reaction that fits Miles' view of the world. It's just that the breath is going to be saying, "Miles Bron, the guy who destroyed the Mona Lisa with his incredibly dangerous fuel". She realises it's in Miles' office, but as soon as she's got it and revealed who she actually is to the group, Miles burns the napkin with his absurdly powerful lighter. This, Blanc says, is because Lionel flagged up the existence of the cocktail napkin to Miles. Just as she'd noted earlier on, Kathryn Hahn's Claire realises they're in the middle of the feared "Hindenburg". Blanc concludes that Miles did all three murders – or, at least, two murders and one attempted murder – to make sure that Andi never made public the fact that Miles stole the Alpha company from her, and that she was the actual genius behind the idea which started Alpha. Helen launches a nugget of Klear at the fireplace. We'll join the action just after the flashback following Benoit Blanc and Helen-as-Andi ends, when the Distuptors realise Duke's pistol is missing and Helen's just taken a bullet right in the diary.

Daniel Craig's Benoit Blanc advises not to think so hard about the ending of 'Glass Onion,' now on Netflix, because the culprit is quote, "an idiot."

Glass Onion expands the twisty-turvy scheming of Knives Out into something that is far bigger and more intricately-designed, yet the actual story remains so simple that even a child could see through it. Ultimately, the thrill of Glass Onion isn’t the answers to its biggest questions, but how it unmasks them. And who poisoned Duke (Dave Bautista), one of the guests and one of Andi’s ex-friends? Miles killed Andi to stop her from ever telling the truth that she is the true originator of Alpha. Central to Glass Onion is why anyone would kill Andi, whose death happens off screen and before the film (but is seen via flashback from the killer’s point of view). But as gentleman detective Benoit Blanc clearly points out in the film’s third act: The culprit is a huge idiot, and everything is actually obvious — even the ending.

The sequel to 'Knives Out' has many familiar faces among announced cast members, but a number of surprise guests also appear throughout.

Easter egg!” [The 49 Most Anticipated Movies of 2023](https://time.com/6241650/most-anticipated-movies-2023/?utm_source=roundup&utm_campaign=20221216) He plays a security consultant to Miles and zaps “medicine” in each of the guests’ mouths that somehow will protect them from contracting the coronavirus over the weekend. Most recently, Lyonne has been acclaimed for her Netflix series [Russian Doll](https://time.com/5509932/russian-doll-netflix-review/), in which her character must solve the mystery of how she became caught in a Groundhog Day-esque time loop. In the original Knives Out, he voiced a character named Detective Hardock in an in-universe TV series watched by Ana De Armas’ character. [Ethan Hawke](https://time.com/5895308/good-lord-bird-showtime-review/) pops up briefly in Greece wearing sunglasses and a ponytail and looking very official. [Natasha Lyonne](https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Atime.com+natasha+lyonne&rlz=1C5GCEM_enUS992US992&oq=site%3Atime.com+natasha+lyonne&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i58.6242j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#:~:text=People%20Can%27t%20Look,%E2%80%BA%20Entertainment%20%E2%80%BA%20awards) has also earned a coveted place on this star-studded video call. He pops up in her raucous, laughably large COVID social bubble at the beginning of the movie. [Knives Out](https://time.com/5739463/knives-out-review/) was a smash-hit in 2019, so it’s no wonder that so many big names jumped at the chance to be included in its sequel, Glass Onion—especially if it included a ticket to the islands of Greece where the movie filmed. If not, we can at least appreciate Grant in an apron covered in flour, clearly picking up the pandemic baking trend. But apparently he has a lot of famous friends, and many of the cameos come in the form of celebrities playing themselves as they Zoom with a bored Benoit. The movie may also be paying a winking tribute to Sondheim’s past work. Lansbury, the beloved star of Murder, She Wrote, died in October, so fans will be heartened to see her onscreen one last time.

"Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery" was filmed in Greece and on stage in Serbia. The Amanzoe resort near Porto Heli plays the private estate in the movie.

“There was some outdoor stuff for which we shot a few things on location last fall in Connecticut and New York, and then everything inside was built in Serbia,” Heinrichs told the “When they all arrive in Greece and are waiting for the yacht, that’s Spetses.” The vacation-based tale will surely satisfy anyone who’s desperate for another season of [The White Lotus](https://www.housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/a41352985/white-lotus-season-2-filming-locations-italy/). [Amanzoe](https://go.redirectingat.com/?id=74968X1525080&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aman.com%2Fresorts%2Famanzoe), a luxury resort and hotel near Porto Heli, Greece. Plus, the island is riddled with impressive homes, swanky shops, and gourmet dining options. While on the island, you can expect to travel by horse-drawn carriages, bike, or on foot. “Trading the browns of New England for the blue and yellows of Greece” was a deliberate move meant to separate the sequel from its predecessor, according to writer-director-producer Rian Johnson. “It’s very epic, almost like the Colosseum, to approach the villa—which lends itself to the idea that people are about to kill each other.” [Massachusetts mansion in Knives Out](https://www.housebeautiful.com/design-inspiration/a30143056/knives-out-set/) made for an unforgettable murder mystery setting. You can stroll along the island’s The resort is comprised of cabanas, pavilions, and villas that have private pools with breathtaking views of olive groves and the Aegean sea. That estate is played by the

When asked whether he'd ever write a whodunit about the downfall of Twitter, the director joked, “Didn't I just do that?”

You’re building a little microcosm of society with the suspects and the power structure within the suspects. The opening gambit of writer-director Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, his second in his series of Agatha Christie–style whodunits, is one of mischief. A few recent films have tried to engage with Covid-19, or include the pandemic in stories.

From Rian Johnson's 'Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery' to Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot murder mysteries, we rank the best recurring plot twists in ...

It’s all the drama of a death with none of the bummer aftertaste. In this case, the knife is more of a fuck-you gesture. Sometimes it’s a very convincing disguise (The Murder of Roger Ackroyd). She (and it is usually a she) is casing the country estate when a completely unrelated murder investigation breaks out. And occasionally someone will spend years developing a tolerance to iocane powder so they can outsmart a Sicilian when death is on the line. This trope is so beloved it even shows up in the affectionate pastiche Doctor Who episode “The Unicorn and the Wasp,” in which the Doctor solves a murder with the real Agatha Christie. You offer your drink to the victim, they drop dead, and everyone thinks a killer is really after you. Maybe they’re the aforementioned jewel thief, casing the joint (A Pocketful of Rye). A classic in the many cozy mysteries of between-the-wars-era England is making one of the party secretly a notorious jewel thief. A play or movie set is the perfect place for a murder mystery. If you’re hiding something during a murder investigation, it seems like a pretty easy inference to make that what you’re hiding is you having committed the murder. There are only so many stories to tell, and after a while the savvy mystery consumer is really there to see how the various plot twists get repurposed to make a “new” story.

In the mood for more murder and mayhem? Give these whodunnits a whirl.

Where to Watch: (Orient Express) Fubo, DirecTV, or rentable on most platforms. Knives Out was a hit in theaters, released shortly after Thanksgiving in 2019 and performing strongly all the way into the new year (until movies stopped being in theaters, in general, in 2020). His keen and cunning mind are put to the test when a string of murders occur during the monastery’s theological disputation between the Franciscans and Papal emissaries. and Val Kilmer, as a thief and a P.I., stumble into a murder case filled with madcap mayhem. The Name of the Rose stars Sean Connery as a Franciscan friar who is renowned for his deductive powers. Again, there are plenty of Agatha Christie adaptations to choose from, most of which feature either Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple (an elderly woman who solved murders). Presented like a 1920s hardboiled detective story, while centered on high school students in a California suburb, Brick stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a young man out to solve the murder of his ex-girlfriend. This wonderful whodunnit -- directed by Herbert Ross (The Goodbye Girl, Footloose) and written by Psycho's Anthony Perkins and Broadway Musical legend Stephen Sondheim -- is one of the blueprints for Knives Out's famous faces game, starring '70s stars Richard Benjamin, Dyan Cannon, James Coburn, Joan Hackett, James Mason, Ian McShane, and Raquel Welch. If you want the most recent, souped-up Poirot adventures, then obviously check out Kenneth Branagh's takes on Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile (with A Haunting in Venice arriving in theaters in September 2023). But for this list, let's journey all the way back to the adolescence of sound cinema itself and dig into 1939's The Hound of the Baskervilles, which features one of the silver screen's most famous Holmes (Basil Rathbone, who played him in 14 films!) in one of Conan Doyle's most famous stories. It's the first of Johnson's two Knives Out follow-ups heading to Netflix (in a landmark deal for the writer/director). One of iconic mystery novelist Agatha Christie's most beloved brains is Hercule Poirot, a character who's been brought to movies and TV dozens of times over the decades, with many of Christie's Poirot books having been brought from page to screen.

One of the best gags in 'Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,' debuting December 23 on Netflix, is a celebrity hot sauce. But what would Jeremy Renner's ...

[nonalcoholic version](https://twitter.com/BoronTheFloor/status/1601300348429250561) to various critics’ groups. [nepo babies](https://www.vulture.com/tags/the-year-of-the-nepo-baby/). This Vanity Fair [video interview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqVj10Yz8i8), in which Renner breaks down his filmography, doesn’t offer clues either, just a story about how Renner got food poisoning from eating lettuce in Beirut. [this interview](https://www.thegentlemansjournal.com/article/jeremy-renner-talks-weinstein-wind-river-and-fighting-back/) with Gentlemen’s Journal. But a sauce aged in oak barrels to nod at his woodworking and carpentry skills? With deep umami and a touch of barbecue to nod at his love of fire trucks? And this Men’s Health piece about what Renner “eats to maintain his Hawkeye muscle” includes typically wholesome stuff — egg whites, avocado, tuna, broccoli — but lacks specifics about what he wishes he was eating. Would anyone like a dash of Renning Hot, the condiment with such a fiery kick that Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc evoked unfazed [Hot Ones](https://www.vulture.com/tags/hot-ones/) champion [Halle Berry](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwHwq5W18uY) after his first taste? What might help me understand what Renner would put into a sauce with his name and face on it? But rare is a multi-hyphenate who experiments as erratically as Jeremy Renner: actor ( [The Hurt Locker](https://www.vulture.com/2022/12/inside-avatars-failed-battle-for-best-picture.html), the [Marvel Cinematic Universe](https://www.vulture.com/tv/hawkeye/), [Mayor of Kingstown](https://www.vulture.com/2021/09/watch-mayor-of-kingstown-trailer-with-jeremy-renner.html), all-around-great [supporting guy](https://www.vulture.com/2016/07/jeremy-renner-is-a-great-negotiating-tool.html)), [singer](https://www.vulture.com/2020/03/jeremy-renner-release-his-brand-new-ep-the-medicine.html), [failed app](https://www.vulture.com/2020/10/jeremy-renner-files-podcast.html) designer, [house flipper, and fire-truck refurbisher](https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a38188420/jeremy-renner-mayor-of-kingstown-hawkeye-interview/). Celebrity profiles sometimes take place at restaurants and allow journalists to share what their subjects ate; no such luck with Renner, who drank only coffee during And so, as Benoit splashes Helen (Janelle Monáe) with blood-red helpings of Renning Hot, then dabs his own eyes with it to make himself weep, I wondered, What would Renning Hot taste like?

'Glass Onion' has a character played by Edward Norton that seems to be a direct send-up of Elon Musk, the billionaire head of Twitter.

All the people who, at best, happened to be in the right at the right time. Not to get at the core of American capitalism, but if we acknowledge that the people with all the power and money might not be the smartest all the time...then where does that leave our meritocracy? Glass Onion does a good job of showing how sometimes the "brilliant" folks are just the ones willing to hurt others to climb up the social hierarchy. It's that if you can scam and claw your way to the top, then you are too big to fail. Bron represents all the people in power we should question. No, no, no Elon is a free speech absolutist, and sure he [bans journalists](https://mashable.com/article/twitter-suspends-journalists-elon) and [reinstates hateful right-wingers](https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-reinstated-banned-twitter-accounts-list) but he's not red-pilled. Hell, Bron is willing to risk total destruction to power the world with a dangerous energy source. Be willing to break the thing that nobody wants you to break? But what's more important is what the film has to say about people like Bron and Musk. [bullied](https://www.wired.com/2009/06/eberhard/) [his way](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-sep-22-fi-tesla22-story.html) [into power](https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-ultimatum-failed-workers-arent-tolerating-aggressive-leadership-2022-11) and [formed](https://parade.com/1364075/jessicasager/elon-musk-net-worth/) his massive wealth off valuations of his companies. And it relates to current events so well, I'd argue, the film understands someone like Musk at his core. [people posting on Twitter](https://twitter.com/search?q=elon%20musk%20miles%20bron&src=typed_query) — where else – that they saw the similarities as well.

It's crazy to think that Rian Johnson's Knives Out sequel was written before the billionaire's takeover of Twitter.

They look from one to another, and realise that despite his promises of a future built on Klear, they had the power all along. Like I say, there have been a lot of tech bro bad guys in the last 10 years, and most of them have an Icarus-style fable comeuppance. On top of that, though, there’s subtler Musk mockery and satire here, and it’s built into the finale through the people who cling to him. So, for me, the job was with Rian to pick and choose the perfect characteristics to send up a particular type of person." That’s where the cautionary tech bro tale takes a turn. He’s so hopped up on his own genius and hung up on his legacy he’s willing to the entire world into a bomb with his magic but nowhere near safe fuel, Klear. Riz Ahmed did a specifically Muskish turn in Venom as Carlton Drake, a man obsessed with jumping ship from this ailing world and colonising the stars. "The fact that Bron’s a tech billionaire – which made a lot of sense for the story – became an obstacle in the writing,” Johnson told Deadline. And so, disconnecting him from that, and trying to build him as his own kind of clownish character, became a challenge." That’s the bit of him that’s captured most clearly in Miles. Edward Norton plays the Alpha Industries co-founder with a mixture of quasi-spiritual solemnity, a particularly fragile kind of self-belief and sick-making smugness that feels very familiar. "My take on this was really to know that Miles is a character cut from a very specific species," Edward Norton added.

The critically acclaimed whodunit comes from director Rian Johnson. You can stream "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery" exclusively on Netflix.

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'Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery has been released on Netflix. Besides the leading roles, we have listed all the important cameos in the mystery movie.

[James Bond](/topic/james-bond)star Daniel Craig reprises his role as detective Benoit Blanc, who will be seen handling a new case. ‘Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery’, the American mystery movie, is produced and directed by The movie stars Daniel Craig, Edward Norton and Janelle Monáe in leading roles.

A fan of musical theater, Rian Johnson had long hoped to land the two stars. But he was already in the editing phase when they agreed to take part.

“I hope they would have enjoyed the little scene and gotten a laugh out of it.” “And so she was very patient in letting me describe the rules of Among Us, up to a point. For children of the 1980s, that show “was actually pretty pivotal in installing a love of whodunits and murder mysteries into all of our brains,” said Johnson, who also slipped a few seconds of a Spanish-dubbed “Murder, She Wrote” episode into the original “Knives Out.” [Getting Away With Murder,](https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/18/theater/theater-review-a-most-sinister-gathering-of-not-so-usual-suspects.html)” which he wrote with George Furth and which ran for just over a month in 1996. “I have alibis for both.” “But still, it felt really nice to tell them that I wouldn’t be here doing this if it weren’t for them.” “She couldn’t have been lovelier and more generous,” Johnson said, adding that Lansbury was perfect for the scene in every way except one: “Not a gamer,” he explained. In Sondheim’s case, Bergman said, “I wasn’t really sure how to get to him. As Johnson explained in a recent video interview, he wanted the Sondheim and Lansbury cameos to stand as tributes to two of his favorite artists — and to give him an excuse to interact with these cultural greats whose paths he might not otherwise have crossed. [wordplay, games and crossword puzzles](https://slate.com/culture/2021/12/stephen-sondheim-crossword-puzzles-cryptic-west-side-story.html), and he enjoyed orchestrating murder-mystery parties with his friend Anthony Perkins. Lovett](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqapHRAqnfk) in the original Broadway production of “Sweeney Todd,” as well as a filmed version that played frequently on Johnson’s television. Now, Johnson said, his experience in securing the involvement of his personal heroes has taught him never to take such opportunities for granted.

Jessica Henwick as Peg, left, Daniel Craig as detective Benoit Blanc and Janelle Monáe as Andi in “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.” (John Wilson / Netflix).

... I had no idea what it was going to be like in the movie. “They cut just before I go, ‘I’m so f— sorry.’” “‘Let’s make sure we get it right because after the third day, we won’t have any left.’ So to me that was the stress ... “I’m like, ‘I know this is fun, but we have to time this out a little bit.’” But when it happened, and everybody was really good ... In a desperate move, Miles — who co-founded Alpha with Andi before cutting her out of the company and persuading their mutual friends to testify in court that he wrote the idea for Alpha on a napkin — sets Helen’s only shred of physical evidence on fire. “It felt like a rage room,” she said. “So everybody was so primed to want to smash that s—, I didn’t have to tell them anything. “You were always nervous,” Bergman added. Soon the rest of the vacationers — including those who previously defended Miles and betrayed Andi under oath — join in. Until, of course, it came time to shoot the climactic scene in which Miles’ esteemed guests turn against him and smash To avenge the murder of her identical twin, Helen (Janelle Monáe) presents the authentic bar napkin upon which her sister, Andi (also Monáe), penned the original plan for Alpha Industries.

The 'Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery' director walks VF through the scene that set everything in motion, highlighting the importance of color and ...

“I think we all knew some version of this person,” he says. “I wrote this movie in 2020. [Best Books](https://www.vanityfair.com/style/photos/2022/12/best-books-of-2022?itm_content=footer-recirc&itm_campaign=more-great-stories-122022)of 2022 Johnson’s decision to have each film exist in a completely unique universe goes back to the “original source of [his] inspiration for all of this,” his love of Agatha Christie. The first meetup of the starry ensemble was “day one, shot one” for the hit sequel, says Johnson, which premiered in theaters on November 23 for a limited theatrical release and is now available to stream on Netflix. [VF’s Most-Read Stories](https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/12/most-read-vanity-fair-stories-2022?itm_content=footer-recirc&itm_campaign=more-great-stories-122022)This Year This is going to be amazing.’ She shows up and she walks past the racks of clothes, and there’s Kate’s rack and it’s glimmering colors, and there’s Daniel’s rack that’s all these fabulous outfits. [Prince William Won’t Speak to](https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/12/why-prince-william-wont-speak-to-prince-harry?itm_content=footer-recirc&itm_campaign=more-great-stories-122022)Prince Harry [Kamala Harris](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/12/kamala-harris-molly-jong-fast-interview-roe-immmigration?itm_content=footer-recirc&itm_campaign=more-great-stories-122022)on a Very Turbulent Year in America I wanted it to be the sad trumpet noise of costumes in this movie.” I wrote it during lockdown, which is probably part of the reason why it takes place on a Greek island,” Johnson said. “I just wanted her in sad tans and beige…. “We’re going to have them be totally new deals every single time,” Johnson says of the films in the Knives Out franchise.

The second installment in Rian Johnson's Knives Out franchise features Daniel Craig as Detective Benoit Blanc once more and a twisty whodunnit murder mystery.

Is it a glass man?' The first thing that came up, because I’m a huge Beatles fan, is 'Glass Onion.'" Before joining T&C, she was the deputy managing editor at [Hey Alma](https://www.heyalma.com/), a Jewish culture site. Benoit proclaims at one point during the film, which is why he struggled to solve the murder: It was so dumb and obvious. Is it a glass castle? They also sing "Looking through the bent-backed tulips /To see how the other half live / Looking through the glass onion." First, director Johnson was inspired by a 1968 Beatles song, and plays the song over the end credits of the film.

The Knives Out sequel features a brand new all-star cast, including Janelle Monáe, Kate Hudson, Kathryn Hahn, Madelyn Cline, Dave Bautista, Ethan Hawke, among ...

Helen acting like Andi would not only disband the friend group, but give her and Detective Blanc the clues they needed to crack the case. Andi was the only person who saw Miles as the genius he is, and he ultimately pushed Andi out of their company although she co-founded it. She also acted as a mole, or someone on the inside, to help Detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) solve the murder since he wasn't invited to the island. So, why did Andi's twin sister Helen show up to the island in her place? Miles threw the entire party with his friends to cover up Duke's murder, which wasn't planned. He left the engine running and the garage door closed until she died from the fumes.

The film is another deftly-crafted and hilarious ride, filled with Blanc's trademark drawl and the most cameos of any movie this year. It's also an incredibly- ...

As he attempts to rally the Disruptors, calling back to his earlier deception with the phrase, "We know what we all saw," the group says that they'll admit both the truth and some lies, rightfully pining Andi and Duke's murders on their former friend. It turns out that Duke had seen Miles leaving Andi's house on the day of her murder and figured out that the tech mogul had something to do with her death. By the end of his big deduction speech, Blanc has pulled back all the layers to show that nothing about the case was as complicated as it seemed. As in "Miles Bron, that asshole who destroyed the Mona Lisa with unstable super fuel." She makes it, and with the push of the statue, Miles gets his wish to be mentioned with the world-famous painting in the same breath. Duke died because of the allergic reaction, but Miles was able to spin it as an attempted poisoning targeted as himself, to avert suspicion. Filled with despair and rage, wanting to hurt Miles in any way possible, Helen starts breaking all of his stupid glass sculptures. When Helen came to Blanc about the murder, he realized the best way to investigate was to join Miles' weekend getaway, with Helen posing as Andi to shake the killer off-guard and help investigate. As for the poison, Duke and Miles did switch drinks, but it was Miles' move rather than an accident. On the day of her death, Andi had actually found the original napkin, which was etched with the bar's logo. It turned out that there didn't need to be a degree of separation between Miles and Andi's potential downfalls. It's also an incredibly-timely send up of misunderstood genius and the ultra-wealthy, in a truly jam-packed film.

Let's break down the many twists and turns of Rian Johnson's "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery."

He all but handed Miles the idea of the lights going out and someone getting shot. In short, Miles has to gaslight, gatekeep, and girlboss his way out of this. Throughout his stay on the island, Duke kept hinting that he saw Miles leaving Andi's — the word "pancake" does a lot of heavy lifting here — and trying to leverage Miles for a spot on Alpha News. There's truly a moment where it looks like Miles is going to get away with his crimes. Then, all he has to do is convince everyone that Duke simply made a mistake in picking up Miles's glass, shut off the lights, and shoot Helen (who he believes to be Andi) with the pistol he stole from Duke. Everyone who received Andi's e-mail rushed to find her, but only Duke saw Miles speeding away from the scene of the crime in his iconic Baby Blue car. When the news of Andi's death breaks online, Duke points it out to Miles in secret and forces his hand. Does Miles concoct an elaborate poison in order to dispatch of Duke? In the ensuing lawsuit, Miles shut her out of Alpha completely, claiming he had come up with the main idea of Alpha. The bullet lodged itself in one of Andi's journals that she was carrying around, allowing her to survive the murder attempt. As Benoit points out, it's almost too obvious, but it makes the most sense: Who stands to lose more from Miles being exposed than Miles himself? Miles may have invited his friends to his island to solve his murder, but he is not our victim.

Rian Johnson's "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery" is yet another murder mystery that bluntly states, "Eat the rich." It has an all-new cast of characters,

In addition to all that, it’s amusing that Miles thinks (or at least claims) that the seawater that Klear has been made of or will be made of in the foreseeable future is abundant in nature. I mean, this is a 500-year-old painting that has been conserved with so many factors in mind, and then there’s this douchebag who is flouting all of that just so that he can flex in front of his friends. One is supposed to be transparent, and the other is supposed to be layered to conceal what’s at its center. And although Musk has dismissed hydrogen fuel as an alternative to oil and gas, his plans to revolutionize transportation have been unaffordable and impractical. His only achievement is hijacking the brainchild of a Black woman (Andi) and putting the future of the company created by her, and the futures of everyone associated with it atop an untested hydrogen-based fuel called Klear. His “efforts” to avoid traffic congestion led to, well, traffic congestion, and that too in an inescapable tube. He thinks his name should be uttered “in the same breath as Mona Lisa” because of his “scientific prowess.” But what he fails to comprehend is that da Vinci and the Mona Lisa have acquired this depth and popularity after years of work, passion, restoration, and analysis. So, despite all his adulation for the Mona Lisa, Bron fails to see his fundamental flaw, while Rian Johnson exposes our preference for instant fame over long-lasting greatness. FYI, the (ugly) artistic representation of Miles sits right across the painting of Mona Lisa. They call themselves “disruptors” because they are destroying everything that’s synonymous with the status quo in order to create a new norm. So, Miles loaned it to them, and in exchange, he moved the Mona Lisa from the Louvre to the Glass Onion. It’s filled to the brim with relevant social commentary and cameos (Ethan Hawke, Hugh Grant, Serena Williams, Natasha Lyonne, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Stephen Sondheim, Angela Lansbury, Yo-Yo Ma, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the Hourly Dong).

The new movie is a murder mystery — but it's also about why we all willingly submit to the rules of billionaires.

At some point, all of these men accrued enough capital that they found themselves surrounded by people who fanned their egos in the hopes of a kickback. [artists in New York City](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/peter-thiel-anti-woke-film-festival-trevor-bazile) and [politicians in Arizona](https://www.axios.com/2022/10/12/peter-thiel-arizona-blake-masters-mcconnell) because he thinks they’ll influence culture and politics toward his vision of a new right. A simple explanation of a phenomenon (or a murder), stated out loud, is often the truest. They travel to the island ostensibly to solve the (fake) murder of Bron himself. For all of the artifice, Bron is not playing 4D chess. After some running around the house and an attempt on Helen’s life, Blanc brings everyone together and declares his findings: It was Bron who murdered Andi and Cody, the former because she knew a new invention of his was dangerous and she had information that could allow her to take back his company; the latter because he’s the only one who saw Bron leaving Andi’s house after committing the murder. The more billionaire-skeptical among the audience might not like him, but on first viewing it’s unlikely that they catch all of his verbal stumbles because of the confidence with which he delivers them. Under direct scrutiny from the clever Blanc, though, all of the myths that Bron’s friends and followers build up around him quickly vanish. The result is an allegory for all of us living with the omnipresent Elon Musk, Donald Trump and Jeff Bezos. All of these people have known Bron for years, and many of them quickly make reference to his brilliance while solving puzzles inside the package, which ultimately reveal an invitation to his private island in Greece for a murder mystery party. The other significant entrant into this quickly growing canon came this year in the form of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Rian Johnson’s sequel to 2019’s Knives Out. Johnson also adds a new dynamic to the satire: The rich are not only evil; many of them are preternaturally stupid, their legitimacy propped up only by the deference of those around them.

Rian Johnson's "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery" is set during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here's how the film addresses the health crisis.

That seems to be why he's pushing for the launch of Klear, his form of clean energy that also happens to be incredibly volatile. They just have to get mysterious liquid sprayed in their mouths courtesy of Ethan Hawke ( Later in the film, we get another subtle shout-out to a hobby many took up during the first months of the COVID pandemic: baking. When Benoit's partner Philip (Hugh Grant) answers the door to their apartment, he's wearing an apron and covered in flour. Do they have to self-quarantine and get tested? But the award for the wildest mask — if we can even call it that — goes to the glamorous and gonzo Birdie Jay (Kate Hudson), who swans into Greece wearing a bedazzled mesh mask that certainly isn't protecting anyone from the spread of an airborne virus. Nowhere is this clearer than with schoolteacher Helen (Janelle Monáe), who tells Benoit about the difficulties of educating her young students in virtual classrooms. Business on the top, Birdie's sweatpants on the bottom. [Tweet may have been deleted (opens in a new tab)] And then there's Birdie, who's hosting a lavish party full of people she claims are in her pod — including famous cellist Benoit Blanc's (Daniel Craig) stylish silk mask scores well on both fashion and function, emphasizing his smart desire to follow COVID safety protocols. From face masks to ill-advised parties, here are all the ways Glass Onion addresses COVID-19.

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His presence in Glass Onion doesn’t extend past his brief appearance early in the Netflix film, either, but that doesn’t make his cameo any less fun. In addition to her role in Glass Onion, Lyonne is set to reteam with writer-director Rian Johnson on the upcoming Peacock murder mystery series, Poker Face. In addition to Sondheim, Angela Lansbury also appears in Glass Onion as one member of Benoit Blanc’s socially distanced Among Us crew. Grant’s voice can also be heard earlier in Glass Onion when he calls out to Craig’s Blanc while the latter is playing Among Us in the bathroom. Orange is the New Black and Russian Doll star Natasha Lyonne also appears in Glass Onion during Benoit Blanc’s Among Us Zoom call. With that in mind, here are all the major celebrities who briefly appear in Glass Onion, including one or two that even the most keen-eyed of viewers might have missed.