Blade Runner 2049

Ryan Gosling plays an LAPD officer heading for an encounter with Harrison Ford’s Deckard in a film whose sheer scale leaves you hyperventilating.

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That Blade Runner 2049 is a more than worthy sequel to Scott’s first film means it crosses the highest bar anyone could have reasonably set for it, and it distinguishes Villeneuve – who’s masterminded all of this, somehow, since making Arrival – as the most exciting filmmaker working at his level today.

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Blade Runner 2049, the superb new sequel by Denis Villeneuve (“Arrival”), doesn’t just honor that legacy, but, arguably, surpasses it, with a smart, grimly lyrical script (by Fancher and Michael Green of the top-notch “Logan”); bleakly beautiful cinematography (by Roger Deakins); and an even deeper dive into questions of the soul.

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Blade Runner 2049 is a sequel that never should have happened, but it’s defied all odds to become one of the best ever.

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2049 only stumbles where it’s too much like other popular sci-fi.

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The latest Denis Villeneuve achievement, Blade Runner 2049 is the rare sequel that both pushes the franchise to challenging new places and serves as a natural extension of what's come before.

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Impeccably cool Blade Runner 2049 is a ravishing visual feast.

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Over 163 stylish minutes, “Blade Runner 2049” wrestles with nothing less than what it means to be human, serving as a beautiful thematic companion to Ridley Scott’s “Blade Runner,” a film that redefined a genre.

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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.

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“Blade Runner 2049,” may not fully answer the question of whether androids dream of electric sheep, but it presents future visions and faraway prophecies about humanity that one day may come to pass.

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Blade Runner 2049 creates gorgeously languid spectacle from our memories of a classic.

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Harrison Ford returns for a rare sequel that enriches the themes and ideas of the original.

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You’ve waited 35 years — we’re not going to ruin it for you at this point.

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Denis Villeneuve’s sequel to Ridley Scott’s 1982 sci-fi classic is both consuming and confounding.

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The gift of life is explored in this sequel starring Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford.

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'Blade Runner 2049' review: Ryan Gosling stars in stylish, brooding upgrade of the '82 model.

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Harrison Ford is back, alongside Ryan Gosling, Jared Leto and Robin Wright, in Denis Villeneuve's sequel to the Ridley Scott classic.

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Inarguably 2049 is an intellectually challenging film that rewards viewers with a host of new and interesting ideas, vis-à-vis man and machine, past and future, and where “the self” resides. The long wait is over, and Villeneuve’s film rewards fans’ patience in all manner of ways.

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Mr. Villeneuve’s film, by contrast, is a carefully engineered narrative puzzle, and its power dissipates as the pieces snap into place. As sumptuous and surprising as it is from one scene to the next, it lacks the creative excess, the intriguing opacity and the haunting residue of its predecessor.

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Is it even possible for a mere movie to live up to Ridley Scott’s 1982 masterpiece?

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If you have two X chromosomes, or know and like someone who does, “Blade Runner 2049” may not be the movie for you.

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Even if Blade Runner 2049 never forgets where it came from, it somehow keeps losing its way. The picture’s moodiness is excessively manicured; this thing is gritty only in a premeditated way. Mostly, it feels like a capacious handbag, designed with perhaps too many extra compartments to hold every cool visual idea Villeneuve can dream up.

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Blade Runner 2049 is so terrified of disreputability that it renders itself dead from the waist down.

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