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Blade Runner 2049

2017

Denis Villeneuve

Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana de Armas, Jared Leto ...

7.0

47,030

Sci-Fi Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge whats left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"Stunningly elegant (...) Visually breathtaking (...) [Villeneuve] subverts the genre in favor of a rich inquiry into the nature of the soul itself"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"A stylish but overlong sequel (...) What 'Blade Runner 2049' inevitably lacks compared to its progenitor is a sense of the shock of the new, perhaps the principal factor that made the original so important to its fans at the time."	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Sequel to sci-fi landmark is an instant classic (...) Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford and director Denis Villeneuve turn this follow-up into a bold, "visual feast" that more than lives up to the original (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Scott Mendelson Forbes	"[It] takes forever to go nowhere special (...) It looks great and boasts solid performances from an underused cast, but (like the original) it's a triumph of style over substance."	NEU
United States	Leah Greenblatt Entertainment Weekly	"Even when its emotions risk running as cool as its palette, '2049' reaches for, and finds, something remarkable: the elevation of mainstream moviemaking to high art."	POS
United States	Bilge Ebiri Village Voice	"Careful, dutiful, and beautiful, 'Blade Runner 2049' cannot achieve the sublime slipperiness of Scott’s masterpiece. Whether it even needs to is up to you."	POS
United States	Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"[A] stylish, brooding upgrade of the '82 model (...) Will cinematographer Roger Deakins, having been nominated for an Academy Award 13 times, finally receive a damn Oscar? Yes. I hope it’s yes. It should be 'yes'."	POS
United States	David Edelstein Vulture	"I imagine most audiences will like the film (...) There’s nothing close to the shock of seeing 'Blade Runner's Tokyo-influenced futuristic dystopia (...) for the first time. I thought it was okay."	POS
United States	Brian Truitt USA Today	"Super-stylish and deeply human — even with androids and holograms around — the spectacular follow-up takes the detective story of the first film and turns it into a grand mythology of identity, memory, creation and revolution."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A gigantic spectacle of pure hallucinatory craziness. (...) [A] visually staggering film (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Joshua Rothkopf Time Out	"'Arrival' director Denis Villeneuve pulls off the dare of the decade, hatching a thoughtful, expansive sequel to a sci-fi classic (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Geoffrey Macnab The Independent	"Ryan Gosling gives a soulful performance in a film that is always able to find the human dimension amid all the special effects and spectacle (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"One of the most spectacular, provocative, and profound blockbusters of our time (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Dan Jolin Empire	"As bold as the original 'Blade Runner' and even more beautiful (...) Visually immaculate, swirling with themes as heart-rending as they are mind-twisting (...) One of 2017’s best (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Matthew Norman London Evening Standard	"A masterwork in its own right (...) You will be awed by the scope and splendour of Roger Deakins’s cinematography (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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