Glass Onion starts to feel over-adorned, as if Johnson, like so many of us, spent too much time absorbing ephemera from his quarantine couch and is now spitting it back at us. There are cameos from a staggering variety of celebrities. There are running jokes about Jeremy Renner and Jared Leto. To drive home that parallel, The Social Network is referenced in the film. As is the presence of Andi ( Janelle Monáe), Miles’s former business partner, whom he forced out of the company in an act of Zuckerberg-esque cruelty. Why would these people be friends with Miles? That’s one of the many little mysteries in Glass Onion. And Birdie ( Kate Hudson) is a bratty celebrity type who seems to be forever getting canceled for saying or doing some witless, offensive thing. Duke ( Dave Bautista) is a YouTuber and Twitch streamer who’s aiming to become a men’s rights thought leader. Lionel ( Leslie Odom Jr.) is a science whiz who works for Miles. There’s Claire ( Kathryn Hahn), the liberal governor of Connecticut now making a bid for the U.S. Joining Blanc and Miles on this accursed island are some of Miles’s supposed old pals. His intricate craftsmanship is a pleasure to watch in motion, though a bad symptom of sequel-itis stalks the film: Johnson, facing all that daunting follow-up pressure, has decided to go bigger. (There’s Craig, newly done with that super-spy role, suddenly in a setting from the Roger Moore era.) As with Knives Out, nothing is what it immediately seems, and Johnson takes his merry time showing us what’s really going on. He does pull off at least one grand reveal in Glass Onion, which takes Blanc and a cast of new suspects to a private island where a smarmy tech zillionaire, Miles Bron ( Edward Norton), has built a Bond villain-esque compound. All Johnson had to do was come up with a bunch more twists. Netflix secured the rights to the next two films in the Benoit Blanc mysteries-so named for the drawling crack detective played by Daniel Craig-for a heap of money. That film’s gizmo mystery contraption and culture-skewering humor was a welcome jolt: an entirely original (though certainly with its influences) creation that helped revive a moribund genre. I didn't know what I wanted in a man until I saw you.How do you repeat a surprise? That’s the tricky question faced by writer-director Rian Johnson with his film Glass Onion, a sequel to the relatively out-of-nowhere whodunnit smash hit Knives Out.Can we take a picture together? I want to show my mom what my next boyfriend looks like.You're making all the other men in here look bad. I'm surprised they haven't asked you to leave yet.I had a good pickup line ready to go, but you're so good-looking I'm literally speechless.You must be a talented thief, because you managed to steal my heart from all the way over here.I believe in honesty, so let me be honest: you're the most attractive man I've ever seen.Want to use their money to buy some more drinks? My friends bet me I couldn't chat up the hottest guy in the bar.Do you like Star Wars? Because Yoda only one for me.I'm not sure what it is about you, but I feel like I have to get to know you.
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