![]() ![]() In Glass Onion - which serves both as a metaphor in the movie, and a wink-nudge reference to The Beatles song (which, unexpectedly, plays out in the end credits) - we have a conventional Agatha Christie setting: someone in a gathering of people will get murdered, and mostly everyone will have a motive. His last movie, Knives Out (which, by the way was not a Netflix original release), immersed itself in the whodunit genre that lent itself more on to the calm thrill of seeing what was an essentially a good novella playout on the screen - ie it didn’t entertain the fake dramatics found in murder-thriller movies. Johnson, whose bad trip as a director mostly limits itself to Star Wars: The Last Jedi, is a natural in the murder mystery genre. ![]() ![]() With Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, writer-director Rian Johnson seems to have a good idea about that mood perhaps, he is even feeling the very thing, to a certain degree. So, here is the cliché when it comes to writing reviews about murder mystery movies: you can’t write much about them, unless, that is, when you’re in a spoiler-spitting mood. ![]()
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