Dune

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

With a tone and narrative that feels like a melting pot of some of the most beloved franchises in popular culture, it is not far-fetched to think that Dune could become the next big thing.

The “Dune” series has long been considered a landmark of science fiction. Fortunately, Denis Villeneuve’s astute direction in laying the right foundations only shows his respect for Frank Herbert’s work.

While Villeneuve's version makes more of an effort than Lynch's to explore some of Dune's meatier themes, like colonization, it fails to nail the environmental ideas.

Villeneuve’s “Dune” is the cinematic equivalent of a meditation garden: gorgeous to watch with its characters’ polished skin, smooth stonelike spaceships, sand enveloped landscapes, sunlight