Review of War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky for The A.V. Club — 09 Jul 2017
The end result is too boxed in by the demands of the franchise era and the usual restrictions of a PG-13 rating to qualify as art. It can’t show morally troubling violence or embrace hopelessness, and its day trip into the heart of darkness has to end with a ray of sunshine—“The horror, the horror.
..” in quotation marks.
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This review of War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) was written by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky and published by The A.V. Club on 09 Jul 2017.
War for the Planet of the Apes has generally received very positive reviews.
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