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- Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian]
- Kyle Anderson @ Nerdist
- Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: I think for as long as I may live, watching Doctor Sleep will be one of my biggest regrets.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: In adapting Stephen King’s “The Shining” sequel, writer/director Mike Flanagan has pulled off the rarity of creating a film which bests its source material. Far better than either chapter of “It,” “Doctor Sleep” isn’t perfect…
- Herman Dhaliwal @ Cinema Sanctum
- Excerpt: I was absolutely floored by Doctor Sleep. It’s a masterfully crafted film that takes an audacious approach in following up The Shining, and takes you on a ride that engages you from beginning to end.
- [New] | M Enois Duarte @ High-Def Digest.com
- Excerpt: Mike Flanagan’s Doctor Sleep reawakens past horror traumas, set forty years after the terrifying events at the Overlook Hotel, starring Ewan McGregor and splendid Rebecca Ferguson.
- James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
- Richard Gray @ The Reel Bits
- Excerpt: Adapting a book that’s a sequel to both a modern classic novel and an iconic film is a mammoth task, and this one comes pretty close to accomplishing both.
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: If you crave more exposition and mythology, then this is ‘The Shining’ sequel you want.
- Blake Howard @ Dark Horizons
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: A wonderfully unexpected sort of horror movie, beautiful and delicate, but unsettling, too, with an authentic plausibility to the dichotomy between the invented uncanny and the human response to it.
- Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: Rebecca Ferguson is the standout here, delivering a performance that is at once understated and intensely powerful.
- Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
- Excerpt: Mike Flanagan really likes peeling the skin off of hands.
- Simon Miraudo @ Student Edge
- Excerpt: There’s a lot to love in this sequel to The Shining , but it lives in the shadow of the original.
- Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: That starkly dangerous tone is probably Doctor Sleep’s best attribute because it refuses to forget the futility we felt while watching The Shining.
- Aaron Neuwirth @ We Live Entertainment
- Excerpt: Even at two and a half hours, there’s a lot of enjoyably spooky entertainment to get out of Doctor Sleep.
- Matt Oakes @
- Excerpt: With forceful dramatic inertia and a thoughtful depiction of trauma and addiction, ‘Doctor Sleep’ is not your average horror movie. But what less can you expect from Mike Flanagan? That it’s a long and slow journey may turn certain viewers off, but those looking for a horror movie with soul have come to the right place.
- Eddie Pasa @ Gunaxin
- Andrew Wyatt @ The Lens
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