Blade Runner 2049
Entertainment Weekly|October 13,2017

EVEN 35 YEARS AFTER THE RELEASE OF THE ORIGINAL Blade Runner, Ridley Scott’s future feels like an invention modern cinema is still trying to catch up to.

Joe McGovern
Blade Runner 2049

Other movies’ notions of nuclear-blasted dystopias or whiz-bang Jetsons kitsch seem to pale next to the haunting, soulful specificity of his vision: the Fritz Lang–meets–’40s-noir metropolis; the paranoid-android flair; the deeply unsci-fi moments of melancholy. It was enough in some scenes just to watch the smoke curl from Sean Young’s cigarette, or follow the dust drifting through a bleached-white sunbeam.

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