GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY: 4 STARS

This image released by Netflix shows Kate Hudson, left, Leslie Odom Jr., center, and Kathryn Hahn in a scene from “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.” (Netflix via AP)

“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,” the sequel to the popular Daniel Craig detective movie “Knives Out,” now playing in theatres before moving to Netflix in late December, is a satire of old school Agatha Christie with a modern sensibility.

Craig returns as detective Benoit Blanc, “The Last of the Gentlemen Sleuths.” He’s the American Poirot, with a honied Southern accent and a Jessica Fletcher-esque knack for being present when people are murdered.

In the new film he finds himself, post COVID-19 lockdown, at a lavish private estate on a Greek island owned by billionaire Miles Bron (Edward Norton doing Elon Musk). Invited by a mysterious third party, it is just the tonic he needs to shake his post-COVID lockdown blues.

“I lose it between cases,” he drawls. “I may be going insane. My brain is a fuelled up sportscar with nowhere to go. I need a great case.”

Bron has invited “my dear disrupters, my closest inner circle,” like former business partner Andi Brand (Janelle Monáe), scientist Lionel Toussaint (Leslie Odom Jr.), man’s rights YouTube star Duke Cody (Dave Bautista), fashion designer and unapologetic loudmouth Birdie Jay (Kate Hudson) and politician Claire Debella (Kathryn Hahn) among other glamourous types, to play a very special game.

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