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The more I watch this the more convinced I am that it’s superior to the original. Director Denis Villeneuve’s sequel understands more deeply the exquisite pain of, essentially, orphanhood, that state of having been abandoned by the ones who brought you into this world. He then extrapolates from that loneliness a plot that is more sprawling and intimate than its predecessor but also more eloquent in how it imagines this world working. It’s true that everything here is still heavily indebted to Ridley Scott’s vision, but Villeneuve’s bigger canvas surpasses it by almost every measure, including its profound sadness. The one glaring sore thumb is Jared Leto’s distractingly showy performance as Niander Wallace; it’s a rare lapse of judgment in an otherwise impeccable movie.
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