Villeneuve’s film is a milestone of precision craftsmanship on a gargantuan scale.
Warner Bros. will release Denis Villeneuve’s film in select theaters on November 3.
Denis Villeneuve’s gets a 4K release that, with its crystal-clear images and boisterous soundtrack, makes the most of the UHD format.
The filmmaker discusses the undertones that he perceives in the novel that he wanted to bring to the fore for his two-part production.
Dune Review: Denis Villeneuve Epic Collapses Under the Weight of Its Self-Seriousness
Dune ends up feeling like an extended prologue for what one can only hope will be a sequel that will clarify its parables and paradoxes.
Blade Runner 2049 is so terrified of disreputability that it renders itself dead from the waist down.
Villeneuve’s moving yet disappointingly cautious mind-bender is accorded a robustly beautiful transfer.
If the cutoff music begins to play, we hope La La Land director Damien Chazelle hauls off and just starts scatting.
Its searching images counterpoint the hyper-articulate methodology of its characters’ sense of uncertainty.
With Arrival, Villeneuve communicates the wonder of a Steven Spielberg alien movie within a decidedly hard sci-fi milieu.
Jóhann Jóhannsson’s score is just one of many elements that conjure a relentlessly terrifying realm of despair.
The one saving grace of Sicario is the considerable talent of cinematographer Roger Deakins.
Jake Gyllenhaal embodies the two roles with real presence, establishing Adam’s sniveling wimp and Anthony’s striding jerk as two believably discrete sides of the same coin.
There were Eisenbergs, Gyllenhaals, and doppelganger-centered film adaptations galore at Toronto.
Possibly year’s most immaculate-looking drivel, a prismatically shot whodunit abundant in red herrings, but lacking in moral contemplation.
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The apolitical nature of Incendies is strangely more irksome than the film’s tempestuous and highly controversial final twist.
Polytechniques hemorrhaging atmosphere of dread and oncoming violence creates a space of inescapable soul-sick horror.
Denis Villeneuve’s blistering artistry humanizes all facets of the postmodern battle of the sexes.
Mostly the film’s high drama, like its dexterous handling of narrative, seems like so much empty sensation.