Dune: Part Two

"The brutal blockbuster this year needs (...) In terms of pure spectacle and shock-and-awe achievement, Villeneuve has produced an adaptation of mad glory and power" 

"[It] is an awe-inspiring, visually stunning sci-fi spectacle and a devastating collision of myth and destiny on a galactic scale (...) Rating: ★★★★½ (out of 5)" 

"It’s a real cinematic event everyone owes it to themselves to take in and hopefully won’t be forgotten come Oscar time. It’s a masterpiece" 

"It somehow fails to make the case of the how weird the human race can actually be, and settles for depicting only strangeness as surface veneer. It has amazing feathers and vestments, but fails to truly dance with its weapon of choice" 

"Staggering spectacle (...) Denis Villeneuve’s monumental adaptation expands its extraordinary world of shimmering strangeness. It’s impossible to imagine anyone doing it better (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)" 

"Denis Villeneuve’s Epic Follow-Up (...) [It] graduates from the world-building thrills of the 2021 original to a meaty, all-encompassing narrative" 

"[It] maintains the grandiose visual style introduced in 'Dune' (...) Part Two is plagued by a nagging shallowness when it comes to portraying the Fremen (...) the film has difficulty fully embracing the nuance of Herbert’s anti-imperial and ecologically dystopian text."