Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (dir. Rian Johnson) is a murder-mystery film that follows famed detective, Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig), in his career after the events of Knives Out (2019). Though none of the other characters are the same, the centrality of Blanc’s character breeds cohesivity between the films.
Each year, around Oscar season, a new biopic emerges that is supposed to excite audiences. Last year, that was Bohemian Rhapsody and First Man. The year before, there was I. Tonya and Battle of the Sexes. Despite the consistency of the genre’s production, the quality never seems to match. Although films like First Man and I, Tonya do appear once in a while, a majority of films within the genre feel like nothing more than a glorified Wikipedia page. While Harriet introduces variables not found on a simple Wikipedia page, they are not for the better.