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  Review by IHE ★★ 95

  More King than Kubrick, yet slavishly reverent to the 1980 classic. Honestly I was kind of bored, it has its moments but I cannot recommend anyone rushing out to see this in theatres. Overly long, much more of a thriller than a horror movie, can’t say I was ever frightened. More of a superhero/vampire movie than anything else believe it or not. Rent this.

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★½ 8

  Very much 2010 to THE SHINING's 2001, a very sturdy straight-up genre sequel made by a solid, unpretentious craftsman, just about the best available version of a film nobody needed and that couldn't possibly live up to its legacy. Does a good job of reckoning with King's cornball voice and his sillier tendencies, mostly because Flanagan's formal echoes are for the most part purposeful and effective, only rarely dipping into nostalgic callbacks. I'll forgive it for not sticking the emotional landing. Rebecca Ferguson as Demon Vagabond Stevie Nicks is a hell of a mood.

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  Review by Jay ★★★½ 1

  you say you see a bright light when youre dying if i dont get ewan mcgregor and his death cat then i aint going

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  Review by Kyle Carragher ★★★½ 10

  This was basically Monsters, Inc.

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  Review by Sean Baker 33

  Truly entertained and engaged throughout. Reminds me in many ways of Hannibal... a sequel that leans towards a comic book sensibility. It also had a real sense of sadness about it and reminded me of the way I felt watching The Irishman - both films asking the audience to participate in ruminations of life in the twilight hours. Ewan McGregor is solid and deserves recognition for his performance.

  But unfortunately (yes, I know I'm a broken record) the digital cinematography really took me out. This is a sequel to an incredibly shot film and I wish there would have been more of an effort to emulate the look of Kubrick's classic.

  Watched at Rio Theater - Vancouver

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★ 39

  someone forgot to cut out all the dumb shit about psychic children, as if Stanley Kubrick didn't leave them all the clues.

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  Review by ˗ˏˋ Liam ˊˎ˗ ★★★★ 7

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  noo don’t eat jacob tremblay he’s so talented aha

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  Review by Jack ★★★★

  If you catch Rebecca Ferguson feeding on my shine do NOT prosecute her! She caught ME slipping!

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  Review by sophie ★★½ 5

  these bitches be feeding off children's screams like they're mike wazowski

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★★ 20

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  An often repeated composition in Mike Flanagan's Doctor Sleep adaptation is the chilling image of a person greeting the decaying, cackling 'room 237' spirit from Kubrick's film in a bathroom far away from the Overlook Hotel, shutting the door behind them in an effort to confront the evil head-on. Whereas Kubrick's film often revealed ghosts as totems of existential memory and the pains of being alive ("great party, isn't it?"), it is the reconciliation between King's overt mythology and Kubrick's image-making that Flanagan finds the courage to face the fear within us all. His often ruthless scare tactics are ultimately in service of never being afraid of anything except the inevitable - a hopeful, often melancholic gesture. Doctor Sleep then concludes as a grand horror epic, never losing sight of its characters even in a final stretch of familiar iconography and callbacks. I'm surprised this was made, but I'm even happier that it exists.

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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★★½ 2

  Dan Torrence went through a lot and I’m really glad he got his life together

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  Review by Syaoran ★★★★ 6

  Imagine making a sequel to one of the greatest and most influential horror films of all time.

  Ballsy.