In “Glass Onion,” Rian Johnson’s sequel to “Knives Out,” Daniel Craig returns as the sybaritic detective Benoit Blanc to solve a murder mystery—this time on a Greek island.
The big difference between “Knives Out” and its sequel, “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,” is one of climate change. In many respects, the two movies are twins. Both are directed by Rian Johnson; both star Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc, the sybaritic sleuth; and both present Blanc with a puzzle to solve. The first film was centered on a Massachusetts mansion, amid the rustle of autumn leaves, whereas the new one largely unfolds on a Greek island, in charring heat.
The title swings two ways. First, toward a track on the White Album, in which fans who read too much into Beatles lyrics are waggishly ribbed by John Lennon. “The walrus was Paul,” he sings. Only by such obsessive detail-sniffing, of course, can you hope to decode a movie like this one. Second, there is an actual glass onion: a stately dome, sitting atop Miles’s island lair, and a telling symbol, I would say, for this extravagant but none too sturdy film.
Tall and black-gowned, with a paunch and a pair of blue-tinted spectacles, Jack Gladney is the chairman—and the proud founder—of the department of Hitler studies at the College-on-the-Hill, a pleasant cradle of learning. And here’s the fun part: Jack doesn’t speak German. He tries, but he just can’t get his all-engulfing American mouth around the Teutonic tongue.
Nevertheless, even if you grow impatient with “White Noise”—an intimate black comedy that dreams of becoming an epic—stick with it, for the sake of the end credits. Unfolding in wide shot, against the background of a seething supermarket, like an Andreas Gursky photograph, these are a miniature masterpiece unto themselves. Given the chance, Baumbach can’t help making a song and dance of things. Someone please put him in charge of a musical, and soon.
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