Soumajit Nath’s review published on Letterboxd:
When Knives out came out, it was surprisingly amazing, I mean it was tooo good for its genre..and in this December as Glass onion (a Knives out sequel) settles for a Netflix release, I had big expectations for it being an instant hit but now as I've just finished watching the movie, I find it soooo fucking good (almost as brill as it's 1st part or perhaps evenmore?) that I can't help getting excited for next follow ups of the franchise in coming years eventhough I guess only one more part is in queue and has been confirmed yet! Yep, I want a new sequel in every December but for now coming back to this one named after Glass Onion, it just blew my ass out!
With all these massive twists and turns leading to an endless paradox in run, crazy characters being sufficient fun for balancing the boring beats of the movie (I'm still thinking Ed Norton's dumb billionaire is a way too close to Elon Musk in appearance and his friends holding his golden titties are all so real that you can't help seeing them as some of the twitter trend shitheads cut right out of the real life) and compelling dialogues screening the truth in favour of constraints of a third person perspective...Glass onion presents a detective fiction/murder mystery while confining all its odds in a fine loop which escalates suspense in each turn leading to a complete new section of drama that gets kookier and more complicated as each layer is pulled back. A careful set-up for a crime and even a far more carefully written/tackled investigation deals with all three dimensions of a timeline targeting the spatial arrangements of hints and little dramas/tensions in circle of these characters, all stapled together beautifully within visual motifs and homages alongside a lucrative mansion standing over a piece-of-shit island, having a giant big-ass glass onion over its rooftop (kinda metaphor? maybe). But best thing about this part is always how lots of things are put together in a way that the tension in centre of this mystery stays stable till the final moments of revealing everything. Half of the credits goes to editors and DOP of the movie for they've done a great job in pulling the needle of suspension over everyone in the gang..specially at that time when light goes off and characters have gone crazy: one with a stolen gun, one with a knife, one with a shovel and how fast that minute crosses over everyone till the sudden firing reinforce a new part of drama within...that's some real class..it was all so AMAZING! And then the movie finally gets into the flashback and come round back to the present from the beginning as now Blanc starts guiding us the way how everything happens in the way they happen (he solves it)!
Craig as Blanc is just phenomenal, hope we'll see more of him solving dumb crimes in better plots in this running franchise! Him being funny is always the movie's best moments but confidence in his look soo perfectly triggered me to think him riddling with characters as a direct homage to Agatha Christie/Poirot combo doing one of their exciting investigations! It's so wholesome of a detective fiction: you've got it all— things to guess for, a deliberate crime in a crowded Palace with everyone having perfect motive to do it so, a dumb villain who's dumb enough to be an imposter but yet survives till the end round of Among us...and a great great detective is there too for collecting all the clues and finally reveals everything as in the way like peeling onions (without a knife this time).
Benoit Blanc's detective theory suggests: a murder is like an onion, it has layers within and with him trying to reach closer to the criminal and crime (howdoneit) itself he needs to peel it full open till all it remains is just the center of it. But it's fascinating that the crime, this time, itself is all too dumb to match the Blanc's smart ass detective standards, and he's not good at dumb things, that's why this time the movie goes a bit lengthy than its 2019 predecessor. But say its fine!