Thanksgiving yields the perfect time to release a plethora of movies, from a range of different genres. Some of this year’s titles include ‘Strange World’, ‘Devotion’, ‘Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery’, ‘Bones and All’, and ‘She Said’, all released on the 23rd of November. I, however, only got the opportunity to see two of the five, being Glass Onion and Bones and All.

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery:  

Glass Onion, unlike Knives Out which followed Marta (Ana De Armas) and her struggle to find the killer in her murder mystery, follows Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig), the detective in the Knives Out, in a new case where he is invited by Miles Bron (Edward Norton), a tech billionaire, to his private island where murder breaks loose. 

Off the bat, Glass Onion sets itself apart from its predecessor. Its who dunnit murder mystery is subsided for one with bigger comedic undertones. Not a bad thing necessarily, but noticeable as the movie has a different focus, as Glass Onion doesn’t seek to remake the original but stand alone. Aside from more uplifted comedy, it’s a murder mystery through and through, one which delights on slowly unraveling itself to the audience and the characters to solve. 

The movie talks about billionaires and other relevant social issues, as it was all made in the last month. This is disappointing, given that the movie was only given a one week theater release a month before its arrival on Netflix.

Everything from the characters and their performances is excellent. You’re able to see how much fun everyone is having on set, especially Daniel Craig and his ridiculous portrayal of Benoit Blanc, with an accent that doesn’t seem to be derived from anywhere. Rian Johnson, the director, also decided in between movies that the character was queer which is not entirely clear in Knives Out. In In an interview, Rian Johnson stated that “Yes, he obviously is.”

Glass Onion releases on Netflix on December 23rd

Bones and All: 

Bones and All follows a familiar tale of two outcasts falling in love as they slowly discover themselves and each other, but with a dramatic spin… cannibalism. Through their odyssey across America, they have to face their past or try to run from it. 

Director Luca Gudagnino takes bits and pieces from his previous work, such as Suspiria and Call Me By Your Name, to create a bizarre romance with horror elements spritzed in.

Everyone in the cast gives a stellar performance, from Taylor Russel paired with Timothée Chalamet, who bounces amazingly off each other, to Michael Stuhlbarg, almost playing the same part he played in Call Me By Your Name as a mentor to its own success. And Mark Rylance, who haunts the movie with his presence and is one of the biggest highlights.

It’s impossible to talk about the movie without acknowledging the gore which goes along with having a majority of the cast playing cannibals. The makeup and prosthetics are so believable you would think they are actually eating people, which was intentional from the start. In an interview with GQ Fernanda Perez, the head of makeup artist on the film spoke on the vision for the movie, “Since the beginning, he told us he didn’t want gore or fantasy. We contacted a pathologist because we wanted to know what it looks like to eat a person — and we discovered that it’s not so easy to eat a person.”

Bones and All is still in theaters and releases on VOD on December 13th.