I can only take so much messiah talk in science fiction, especially when it’s coming from Javier Bardem and Timothée Chalamet, both of whom I generally like, but here all I could think about was that they’d played Desi Arnaz and Bob Dylan.

| Mar 4, 2025

The massive cast, who could have easily felt like a Shakespeare-on-the-Beach ensemble, have fully bought in and are working overtime to ensure we do too.

| Feb 26, 2025

I found reasons to avoid it all year long. Finally catching it on the small screen, I was enthralled, mostly thanks to Zendaya distracting from the tiresome Atreides white messiah complex, but also because it finally embraced BIG sci-fi battles

| Jan 2, 2025

I'm constantly in awe of Villeneuve, and this chapter was the movie we were all waiting for.

| Original Score: A- | Dec 31, 2024

A very good film, but one that falls short of that elusive classic status.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 26, 2024

Right from sound, camera work, and VFX to sharp and crisp editing, Dune 2 aces in every technical department.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 23, 2024

Denis Villeneuve's sequel is a beautiful crash bang wallop of a film that is overpowering in its splendour and scale - a sci-fi film for people who don’t like sci-fi.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 11, 2024

Bigger, bolder and more satisfying, <I>Dune: Part Two</I> triumphs over its predecessor.

| Original Score: A- | Nov 18, 2024

Pt. 2 is massive, mind-blowing, less complex with much better pacing, better character development and expands the DuneMovie verse with culminating powers.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Sep 5, 2024

It almost feels like a miracle that Denis Villeneuve got to make a Dune adaptation this bold and daring in the current studio system.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 3, 2024

Dune: Part Two is a masterpiece that surpasses the high expectations set by Part One, a movie so good, it will make you forget the horror of its popcorn bucket.

| Original Score: A | Aug 15, 2024

A monstrous achievement for the Sci-Fi genre, Denis Villeneuve’s Dune Part Two is all guts and glory with an end result that feels like sanctified storytelling.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 28, 2024

I need a buddy comedy between Stilgar and Josh Brolin's Gurney Halleck.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 27, 2024

Just as The Empire Strikes Back was an improvement upon A New Hope, this too is an improvement upon its predecessor. It’s a perfect sci-fi epic.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Jul 25, 2024

For all its talk about centuries-old religious sects, intergalactic trading guilds, and foretold messiahs, Dune: Part Two is a movie about power and the material resources used to secure it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 19, 2024

Denis Villeneuve’s much-awaited sequel to 2021’s spi-fi epic, Dune, is the first truly great film of 2024. Dune: Part Two’s scope is awe-inspiring, its pacing is electric, and the themes it explores are suspenseful and thought-provoking.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 19, 2024

Dune: Part Two leads you on with the idea that we’re watching an avenging hero. In reality, we’re seeing the inevitable, deeply disconcerting outcome of where following a messiah figure takes a culture.

| Original Score: A | Jul 8, 2024

I would be remiss to not mention Rebecca Ferguson owning the screen as Lady Jessica. This film and cast is too stacked to give it fully adequate treatment in a mere blurb...

| Jul 5, 2024

“Two: A Spice Odyssey”: Villeneuve’s gorgeous, brute parable of generational rage, interplanetary revenge and exploitation of masses for the production of magical fuel that extends dynastic rule... is freed from the garrulous exposition of the first.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 4, 2024

(Timothée Chalamet) is blessed with a remarkable head of hair that defies the desert’s dryness. There’s not an ounce of frizz on those wavy tresses.

| Original Score: B | Jul 4, 2024