Review of Candyman (2021) by Richard Brody for The New Yorker — 26 Aug 2021
For all its symbolic heft and keen-eyed flair, there’s a scattershot quality to Candyman that has to do with the seemingly inescapable demands of its genre source. The horror-film combination of constrained tautness and calculated gore keeps some of the themes from fully developing and leaves narrative loose ends dangling.
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This review of Candyman (2021) was written by Richard Brody and published by The New Yorker on 26 Aug 2021.
Candyman has generally received mixed reviews.
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