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By Vince Mancini (256) for Uproxx (697) on 26 Aug 2021

Candyman is certainly elevated in terms of acting and of composition (with fittingly spooky shots of the Chicago skyline), it was just hard…

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By Mark Feeney (434) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 26 Aug 2021

Acute and skillfully made, Candyman is also pointedly political…

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By Dana Stevens (1,435) for Slate (2,081) on 26 Aug 2021

The first hour of Candyman does a bang-up job of mixing such audience-teasing popcorn thrills with trenchant, if sometimes too flatly stated,…

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By K. Austin Collins (343) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 26 Aug 2021

What the movie’s effortful attempts at symbolism and meaning do most effectively are undercut what’s smart about the questions it raises…

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By Katie Walsh (1,279) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 26 Aug 2021

DaCosta, who made her directorial debut with the remarkable abortion drama “Little Woods,” firmly announces herself as an artist at work…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for The New York Times (9,847) on 26 Aug 2021

It’s easy to shock viewers with splatter but the old gut-and-run gets awfully boring awfully fast…

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By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 26 Aug 2021

The golden era of slashers was defined by vicarious, often overblown pleasures, while the mood of Candyman is overwhelmingly dour and gloom-cloaked…

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By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN (497) on 26 Aug 2021

For all that the film does well, in trying to balance its cerebral, visceral and sequel aspects, Candyman appears to have bitten off a bit…

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By Okla Jones (5) for Consequence (296) on 25 Aug 2021

Candyman pays homage to the original, while still maintaining its uniqueness with a fresh and provocative plot…

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By Leslie Byron Pitt (3) for The Playlist (3,871) on 25 Aug 2021

DaCosta’s continuation of the “Candyman” saga becoming not only fascinating but terrifying in how even the events of the first time are…

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By Siddhant Adlakha (174) for IGN (1,013) on 25 Aug 2021

Nia DaCosta’s slow-burn sequel makes Candyman feel vital, both building on and course-correcting the movies in the series that came before it…

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By Brandon Katz (25) for Observer (1,042) on 25 Aug 2021

Candyman feels like a reclamation project of sorts…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 25 Aug 2021

From the opening moments of Nia DaCosta’s gory yet strikingly beautiful and socially relevant “Candyman,” it’s clear we’re in for…

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By Odie Henderson (402) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 25 Aug 2021

Candyman caters to fans of the original without sacrificing its own vision and story…

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By Mark Kennedy (184) for The Associated Press (882) on 25 Aug 2021

DaCosta can make a stroll down a well-lit, modern and clean hallway somehow creepy. This is confident, smart filmmaking…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 25 Aug 2021

This is horror with grandeur, a movie that pays homage to history and feels so of-the-moment as to seem fresh out of the lab...Candyman, the…

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By Jared Mobarak (867) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 25 Aug 2021

The filmmakers utilize Rose’s intent with Barker’s story and run with it to find the most terrifying, resonate, and scathing conclusion…

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By Kate Erbland (681) for IndieWire (3,631) on 25 Aug 2021

While DaCosta ably toys with the usual genre trappings — jump scares, things that go bump in the night, eye-popping gore — the filmmaker,…

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By Jacob Oller (247) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 25 Aug 2021

While the kills, perpetrated by a being mostly just seen in mirrors, are sometimes a bit too obfuscated by their gimmick to be viscerally satisfying,…

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By Amon Warmann (68) for Time Out (7,510) on 25 Aug 2021

It helps that Candyman is exquisitely shot. Right from the first frame, DaCosta is always doing something interesting with the camera…

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