even when its emotions risk running as cool as its palette, 2049 reaches for, and finds, something remarkable: the elevation of mainstream moviemaking to high art
Blade Runner 2049, on its own march to screen legend, delivers answers - and just as many new questions meant to tantalize, provoke and keep us up nights
"Blade Runner 2049" may not reinvent the rules for blockbuster storytelling, but it manages to inject the form with the ambitions of high art, maintaining a thrilling intensity along the way