Matt Reeves’ War for the Planet of the Apes is the best Apes installment yet (regardless of whether we’re talking new or classic formula).
War for the Planet of the Apes — the upcoming, Woody Harrelson-starring sequel — looks set to top both, currently standing at 95 percent with 44 reviews.
But it is also clearly a larger decision to frame the movies with clarity and directness, without huge cosmic ironies.
Dawn’s chest-thumping performance boldly declared the state of the digital art, dropping photoreal primates into a forest shoot with seamless precision.