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- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: DaCosta’s mythology gets a bit murky before righting itself with a bold ending, but the film excels in its striking visuals incorporating shadow puppetry, mirrors and art installations,
- Herman Dhaliwal @ Cinema Sanctum
- Excerpt: If there’s one thing you can say about Candyman, it’s that it has a lot on its mind, but not all of it comes together in a totally satisfying way.
- [New] | James Jay Edwards @ The Big Smoke America
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Strikingly original horror with a purpose: to delve into the mythologizing of the past, to explore the boundary between cultural appropriation and artistic inspiration, to heed the lessons of history.
- Charlie Juhl @ Citizen Charlie
- Excerpt: Socio-cultural explorations take center stage over blood splatter & the sequel/spiritual resurrection is the better for it
- Sarah Marrs @ LaineyGossip.com
- Excerpt: The ideas are there—the continuity of violence, art and commercialism and exploitation, gentrification and haunting—but it doesn’t go anywhere.
- Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: Despite some intermittently rocky storytelling, the film firmly puts the title character into our racially turbulent times, finding real substance in the process.
- Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: The filmmakers utilize Rose’s intent with Barker’s story and run with it to find its most terrifying, resonate, and scathing conclusion.
- Aaron Neuwirth @ We Live Entertainment
- Excerpt: With striking visuals and a keen balance of relevant topics and creepy atmosphere, Candyman delivers on being a studio horror film with enough going on under the surface.
- Matt Oakes @
- Excerpt: A bone-rattling, conscious-stirring explosion of socially-conscious horror, Nia DaCosta’s ‘Candyman’ sequel brings the series into modern times with plenty of gore, effective performances, and searing social commentary to create a potent treatise on the cyclical nature of Black trauma.
- Eddie Pasa @ DC Filmdom
- Shelagh Rowan-Legg @ ScreenAnarchy
- Josh Taylor @ The Forgetful Film Critic
- Excerpt: The newest iteration of the Candyman franchise does everything the original film wanted to do, but better. Director Nia DaCosta uses a fresh and exciting approach to build and expand upon the mythology of the world.
- Andrew Wyatt @ The Lens
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