Doctor Sleep

Flanagan pulls it off, especially in the extended climactic sequence.

With Kubrick-like attention to detail, Flanagan plays with images and themes we remember, but always with different outcomes.

A body of work that benefits from hindsight and reflection - unexpected pleasures for a horror movie, which must be why they feel so welcome.

"Doctor Sleep" feels like the logical continuation to Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of "The Shining."

Whichever route you prefer to take to the Overlook Hotel, there are better directions available than those prescribed by Doctor Sleep.

I think what I respected the most about Doctor Sleep is that it does feel like it's trying to be its own film for as long as it can.

Doctor Sleep is a dense dance of nostalgic supernatural horror mixed with a deep psychological examination of how we can rise from the sins of the past.

Mike Flanagan took the impossible task of balancing both Stephen King's The Shining and Stanley Kubrick's cinematic adaptation, and successfully nailed pretty much everything regarding the connection between the main stories.

…Flanagan and King have repurposed many of the familiar elements as part of a new and very different story, one that riffs neatly on the original property while going off in a fresh direction…

The movie has a hefty running time but it’s in large part due to the story never taking shortcuts and offering up plenty of rich character details.