Filling it is a set of great performances from Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, Robin Wright, Mackenzie Davis, and Sylvia Hoeks. The futuristic environment has a majestic and lush hollowness to it. The arthouse circuit delivered the kind of movies that set social media buzzing while even the blockbuster films of 2017 felt smarter and more accomplished, from Wonder Woman to Dunkirk to Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

The movie is held back a bit with the same problems as the original, but it's still a surprisingly thoughtful detective movie masquerading as an epic, and it's much smarter than it looks.Īnd it looks amazing - literally. From all types of filmmaking, there were stories worth celebrating. Why you should see it: Even though it cost $150 million and was the sequel to one of the most influential science fiction movies ever made, 'Blade Runner 2049' was a box office failure, raking in only $90 million domestically. What it's about: A sequel to the 1982 sci-fi classic 'Blade Runner,' the new movie takes place even further in the future, where a bounty hunter stumbles upon a secret that threatens to upend the society around him and leads him to seek out Rick Deckard, who's been missing for 30 years.

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