Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (PG-13), on Netflix
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This is the first sequel to Knives Out. It had a limited theatrical run before premiering on Netflix, but it's still considered a Netflix original film. It came out in 2022, but I didn't see it until 2025. Ultimately, I loved this movie. For a big chunk of it, I thought it wasn't as good as the original, but in the end, I gave it a higher rating than I gave the first one. That doesn't necessarily mean I thought this was a better movie, and in fact if I watched the first one again, I'd probably give it a higher rating than I originally did. I still don't know which movie I liked more, or whether perhaps I liked them both equally. But for now... I loved this movie.

Daniel Craig returns as the world's greatest detective, Benoit Blanc. Because it's set in 2020, everyone is sheltering in place due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This has Blanc incredibly frustrated, since he can't solve any mysteries. Meanwhile, a group of friends are invited by tech billionaire Miles Bron (Edward Norton) to his private island. (They're all given some sort of spray in the mouth that apparently makes it safe for them to get together without social distancing, but that's just a handwave.) They include a politician named Claire Debella (Kathryn Hahn), a scientist named Lionel Toussaint (Leslie Odom Jr.), a supermodel turned fashion designer named Birdie Jay (Kate Hudson), an internet celebrity named Duke Cody (Dave Bautista), and surprisingly, Miles's former business partner, Andi Brand (Janelle Monáe). Birdie is accompanied by her assistant, Peg, and Duke is accompanied by his girlfriend, Whiskey. Blanc also received an invitation, but we later learn that Miles didn't invite him. So that's one mystery: who did send the invitation, and why? Oh, and there's some random guy named Derol, who is staying on the island for awhile, for reasons that are never explained. But he's not part of the reason Miles had invited his friends to the island. They have an annual get-together, and this time he wants to play a murder mystery game with them, in which he will be the victim. Early on, I thought it might turn out that he had already been murdered, in some slow-acting way, but that's not the case. It really was just supposed to be a game.

Of course, there eventually is a real murder, but I won't spoil who gets killed. I'll just say that a little while after it happens, the movie flashes back to before everyone came to the island, and continues on with flashbacks to many of the scenes we'd already seen on the island, giving new perspectives on them. I'm not going to spoil any details of that, nor how the whole story eventually wraps up, but it's all pretty great, and amusing. (And it would inspire at least a couple of internet memes, in real life.) And, since I don't want to spoil anything, I guess I don't know what else to say. It's just a really fun movie.