It’s time for the controversial entry in our list of high class detective fiction, there’s always one. Usually any films that we cover will be contentious in terms of placement, is it really fair to place a work of a visual medium in the same competition as some musty old books? Am I even qualified to talk about film theory? Well, I’ll have you know that I completed at least one, and I quote: “unspecified film studies unit” in the course of my school education, so I’m the most qualified person in the room. It is of course Glass Onion by Rian Johnson that takes the fourth place in our competition for 2023, just shy of the grand podium. When this film came out I was excited, despite its strange titling as: Glass Onion, a Knives Out Story, I was intrigued. It seemed to be tackling more modern ideas, bringing the original structure of the classic Christie with the rich family suckling at the teat of their patriarch into a contemporary story, instead with a gaggle of successful celebrities reliant on an even more wildly successful tech bro for his blessings and budgets to sustain their fiscal dreams.