Denis Villeneuve’s Dune is a coming-of-age space epic
For all its monsters and skulduggery, this is essentially a story in which a young man dreams of a woman in a far-off land.
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Ryan Gilbey
Ryan Gilbey is the New Statesman's film critic. He is also the author of It Don't Worry Me (Faber), about 1970s US cinema, and a study of Groundhog Day in the "Modern Classics" series (BFI Publishing). He was named reviewer of the year in the 27 Press Gazette awards and is Film Critic in Residence at Falmouth University.
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