John Maguire on film: Glass Onion is funnier but not as satifying to unpeel as the original whodunit

Daniel Craig reprises his role as Southern-fried private investigator Benoit Blanc in Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, the sequel to his unexpected blockbuster whodunit, that sees the “world’s greatest detective” inveigle his way into the lives (and deaths) of an elite group on holiday on a private Greek island.

Having paid a baffling $450 million for two more Knives Out films (including a reported $80 million for Craig), Netflix will be hoping ...