Denis Villeneuve’s long-awaited follow-up has already distinguished itself as a more sophisticated breed of genre picture, earning praise for Roger Deakins’ mesmerizing photography and a cerebral narrative engaging with the same tricky ontological questions posed by the 1982 film.
In the new column Extra Credit, Charles Bramesco recommends supplemental viewing for fans whose interests have been piqued by a given week’s big new release.
This weekend, Blade Runner 2049 blade-runs into theaters, and like Ridley Scott’s thoroughly canonized original, it arrives bedecked with many difficult existential quandaries.
What will the prostitutes of the future look like?