Denis Villeneuve’s windswept epic is engrossing enough to maintain an audience with an intermission and a running time twice its length.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 10, 2022

When the anticipation is feverish, it sets up movies to disappoint and fail. This long-awaited movie smashes those expectations.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 21, 2021

Dune is a triumph of mediocrity. What it does, it does well enough, but was it worth doing? It's a cookie-cutter movie, a restatement of every trope that now impoverishes cinema.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2021

Nowhere near as enjoyable as Villeneuve's inspired Blade Runner 2049, Dune is an achievement for sure, but watching it is rather like having huge marble monoliths dropped on you for two and a half hours.

Full Review | Nov 19, 2021

I really loved Dune. The action set pieces were phenomenal, but the focus was almost always on the characters.

Full Review | Nov 4, 2021

Denis Villeneuve's new big-screen adaptation underlines why generations have been fascinated by the story.

Full Review | Nov 3, 2021

This visually sumptuous space opera is sure to please new audiences and Dune fans alike.

Full Review | Oct 30, 2021

I just got swallowed up by it, shall we say.

Full Review | Oct 29, 2021

With plans to continue the story into a second movie, Villeneuve starts spinning his wheels in the sand about halfway to a sandwormy destination. It is terribly disappointing.

Full Review | Oct 28, 2021

Everything about Denis Villeneuve that keeps me from loving his previous works really works here... [Villeneuve's] chilly, inhuman quality really works here.

Full Review | Oct 28, 2021

The plot is enough for even a sandworm to digest.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 28, 2021

It was such an incredible technical achievement that I was blown away by it over and over again.

Full Review | Oct 28, 2021

Oover the course of its two hours and 35 minutes (!), the film won me over. Had part two been immediately available, I would've nuked another bag of popcorn, leaned back, and clicked play.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 28, 2021

Dune, the planet, suffers perpetual drought. "Dune," the movie, feels waterlogged.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 28, 2021

By the time its near three-hour run-time comes to an end, and Chalamet's Paul finally encounters Zendaya's Chani, the story is only just beginning to get interesting.

Full Review | Oct 28, 2021

A spicy journey to an amazing future.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Oct 26, 2021

Villeneuve's Dune sensibly tackles only one manageable section of the story, avoiding the baffling narrative compressions and ellipses that blighted Lynch's version, while reining in the extravagant excesses that thwarted Jodorowsky...

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 24, 2021

The movie's stripped-down material world correlates with a stripped-down emotional one-narrow, facile, and unambiguous.

Full Review | Oct 23, 2021

The movie isn't "Lawrence of Arabia in Space," but it comes pretty close, and I say that as someone who went in a doubter.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 22, 2021

I admire any director who is able to create a self-contained world on such a scale, but this is an epic for the eye, not the heart.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 22, 2021