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By Pat Brown (171) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 31 Oct 2019

Like a traumatized psyche, it remains uncomfortably stuck in the past, replaying familiar events in an effort to empty them of terror…

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By Robert Abele (1,309) for TheWrap (3,203) on 30 Oct 2019

Like a servant to two masters, “Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep” wants both Stephen King and fans of Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film of his…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 30 Oct 2019

You could call it fan service, if the service is to teach fans that mimicking Stanley Kubrick’s chilly elegance—and even reshooting scenes…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for The Guardian (2,969) on 30 Oct 2019

It is more than half an hour longer than the Stanley Kubrick film, although it seems more than that – laborious, directionless and densely…

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By Tim Robey (1,578) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 30 Oct 2019

Even those familiar with King’s 2013 follow-up of the same name, more of an absorbing dark fantasy than a horror novel, won’t be prepared…

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By Tom Jorgensen (31) for IGN (1,013) on 30 Oct 2019

The scary and powerful Doctor Sleep works best when doing its own thing rather than recreating parts of The Shining…

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By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 30 Oct 2019

The Overlook Hotel is still plenty creepy, as is the crusty naked ghost lady in Room 217…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 30 Oct 2019

Where so much horror cinema wields the sledgehammer, Flanagan consistently applies a scalpel…

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By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen Daily (1,021) on 30 Oct 2019

Flanagan brings enough smarts and soul to the flawed, fascinating Doctor Sleep that he manages to escape The Shining’s shadow mostly unscathed…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 30 Oct 2019

This sequel to “The Shining” may register, in the end, as a long footnote, but it makes you glad that you got to play in that sinister…

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By Matt Singer (625) for ScreenCrush (954) on 30 Oct 2019

Like HBO’s new Watchmen series, Flanagan’s Doctor Sleep doesn’t simply rehash its source material, and instead uses its characters, setting,…

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By Jamie Graham (285) for Total Film (3,532) on 30 Oct 2019

Don’t overlook this spiritual sequel to The Shining. But don’t expect it get close to Kubrick’s original, either…

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By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 30 Oct 2019

It doesn’t have Jack Nicholson, Stanley Kubrick or even much of the Overlook Hotel, but Rebecca Ferguson and other good actors provide some…

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By Chris Hewitt (1) (113) for Empire (3,446) on 30 Oct 2019

Working off source material that is very different from its predecessor, anyone expecting a straightforward Shining sequel will be disappointed…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for IndieWire (3,631) on 30 Oct 2019

Doctor Sleep shows considerable effort to ingratiate itself to discerning cinephiles, from the moody Newton Brothers score to cinematographer…

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By Darren Franich (64) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 30 Oct 2019

Doctor Sleep is a mess. It’s way too long, clashing somber sobriety with loony cheap thrills…

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