Review of Blade Runner (1982) by Jonathan Rosenbaum for Chicago Reader — 09 Nov 2007
The grafting of 40s hard-boiled detective story with SF thriller creates some dysfunctional overlaps, and the movie loses some force whenever violence takes over, yet this remains a truly extraordinary, densely imagined version of both the future and the present, with a look and taste all its own.
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This review of Blade Runner (1982) was written by Jonathan Rosenbaum and published by Chicago Reader on 09 Nov 2007.
Blade Runner has generally received very positive reviews.
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