Review of Doctor Sleep (2019) by Eric Kohn for IndieWire — 30 Oct 2019
Doctor Sleep shows considerable effort to ingratiate itself to discerning cinephiles, from the moody Newton Brothers score to cinematographer Michael Fimognari’s dark blue nighttime palette; as a whole, the movie conjures an eerie and wondrous atmosphere that blends abject terror with a somber, mournful quality unique to Flanagan’s oeuvre.
But his pandering to dueling source material results in a jagged puzzle beneath both of their standards.
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This review of Doctor Sleep (2019) was written by Eric Kohn and published by IndieWire on 30 Oct 2019.
Doctor Sleep has generally received positive reviews.
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