Glass Onion (2022)

Benoir Blanc, the great detective (an homage to Hercules Poirot), is back. We (and the critics) agree that it is ever so slightly inferior to the original, but part of that is related to a repeating of the very appealing style of detection that Benoir does. The ever talented Edward Norton convincingly plays Miles Bron, a billionaire tech bro who isn’t nearly as clever as he thinks. Once a year, he amasses his tight-knit clique—a disparate group of people who smugly refer to themselves as “The Disruptors”—for a lavish, weekend vacation. They are all purposely exaggerated in their personas. This time, he’s shipped them all multilayered puzzle boxes as a tease for the murder mystery he’s planned at his isolated getaway. His mansion manages to be gaudy yet chicly minimalist, an indication that he has no discernable style all his own. The murder victim is supposedly him but something else entirely emerges, and while it is not quite as clever as the original movie’s plot, it is very entertaining.