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October 22, 2021
A cool wind sweeps through the sands of “Dune,” Denis Villeneuve's chilly, majestic adaptation of Frank Herbert's classic 1965 science-fiction novel.
Hot as it may be on Arrakis, the desert planet that draws the universe's most powerful interests to its mineral-rich but inhospitable sands, Villeneuve's film is a solemn slow burn. This “Dune,” a cool-headed colossus, erects a massive, brutalist architecture of otherworldly science-fiction to craft a big-screen spectacle of thundering splendor.
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