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Dune: Part Two gets rave reviews: Timothee Chalamet and Zendaya's sci-fi sequel earns near-perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes as one critic declares 'our blockbuster drought is over'

The reviews are starting to trickle in for Dune Part 2, and they're even better than the first installment.

However, Gyarkye added, 'Part Two is plagued by a nagging shallowness when it comes to portraying the Fremen, an indigenous people fighting for self-determination within the empire; the film has difficulty fully embracing the nuance of Herbert’s anti-imperial and ecologically dystopian text.' 'Dune also stands in stark contrast to so many other shallow tentpoles of recent years in also investing an enormous amount of time and energy into treating its characters as fully realized and deeply flawed people, not merely props to be scanned and programmed into computers so they can do cool-looking but physically-impossible things onscreen,' he says. The Los Angeles Times' Joshua Rothkopf claimed the film was, 'An instant landmark of its genre,' while New York Post's Johnny Oleksinski boldly stated, 'Our blockbuster drought is over, thanks to a brilliant sequel set on a sweltering desert planet.'

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