Dune

Movie • 2021

8.0

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Roger Ebert

The new film adaptation of the book, directed by Denis Villeneuve from a script he wrote with Eric Roth and Jon Spaihts, visualizes those scenes magnificently.

rogerebert.com/reviews/dune-movie-review-2021

Rotten Tomatoes

Villeneuve has such a natural keen eye for pleasing visual compositions, but he also has the patience many famous big screen stylists lack.

rottentomatoes.com/m/dune_2021

The Guardian

Dune is dense, moody and quite often sublime – the missing link bridging the multiplex and the arthouse.

theguardian.com/film/2021/sep/03/dune-review-denis-villenueve-venice-film-festival

The Guardian

This eerily vast and awe-inspiring epic, a cathedral of interplanetary strangeness, is better than the attempt a generation ago by an acknowledged master.

theguardian.com/film/2021/oct/20/dune-review-denis-villeneuves-awe-inspiring-epic-is-a-moment-of-triumph

The Hollywood Reporter

Denis Villeneuve’s attempt to tame the notoriously difficult novel about an interstellar empire at war over control of a precious natural resource has no lack of cinematic spectacle.

hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/timothee-chalamet-in-denis-villeneuves-dune-film-review-venice-2021-1235005184/

The Guardian

Whether it’s the samurai-style swordplay and inner voices of Star Wars or the Matrix-like question of Paul’s foretold divinity, many riffs can feel familiar. What makes them new is Villeneuve’s astonishing visual sensibility.

theguardian.com/film/2021/oct/24/dune-review-denis-villeneuve-timothee-chalamet-zendaya-oscar-isaac

Dune is so aesthetically rich and monolithic that a few brief, misguided stabs at Marvel-style humor early on feel almost like blasphemy.

ew.com/movies/movie-reviews/dune-movie-review/

NPR

Villeneuve has made a grand, epic film that features the kind of action and spectacle you're likely expecting — but he hasn't let the sheer staggering scope of the endeavor sway him from his penchant for moody introspection.

npr.org/2021/10/16/1046002856/dune-2021-movie-review

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