"GLASS ONION is a smart-talking (almost self-consciously), glossy-looking, totally engrossing deduction bash that keeps audience attentive to every clue and line onscreen, and guesstimating who is the killer (and who will be the victim). The posh set goes lavishly in accordance with Miles's parvenu status, artsy-fartsy (a Rothko's painting is hung topsy-turvy) and vainglorious (full of futuristic design and glassy objects), he even rents Mona Lisa from Louvre, with which he wants to be remembered in the same sentence (a wish will be ruefully fulfilled in the finale). The story ostensibly veers into the familiar orbit of Agatha Christie's AND THEN THERE WERE NONE, after one murder is committed, and a second one follows, then in midstream, a big reveal leads to a prior murder that is plausibly kept under wraps, and flashback gives away the real person who hires Blanc and how they cooperate in solving the mystery, after an epiphany hits Blanc, the culprit and the evidence comes into light, and the final retribution is pleasantly satisfactory."

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