At The Movies: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is mindless fun, minus the first film’s sharp edges

Daniel Craig convincingly morphs into Blanc, a cravat-wearing Southern gentleman tasked with solving a murder in a rich but dysfunctional family. PHOTO: NETFLIX
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139 minutes, available on Netflix from Friday
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The story: In this sequel to the hit 2019 murder mystery Knives Out, Daniel Craig returns as detective Benoit Blanc, this time bringing his sleuthing skills to an island in the Aegean belonging to billionaire tech bro Miles Bron (Edward Norton). Bron has gathered a group of old chums – played by Janelle Monae, Kate Hudson, Kathryn Hahn, Dave Bautista and Leslie Odom Jr – for a murder-mystery party, but things do not go as planned.

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