'War For The Planet Of The Apes' Employs Small-Scale Gorilla Tactics
The latter-day Apes prequel trilogy concludes quietly, without cinematic chest-thumping. Critic Chris Klimek says the result is "suspenseful, mournful, grand and sensitively performed."
About a century before ceased to be Earth's dominant species, the primatologist F. Scott Fitzgerald observed that the "test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." So discerning cinephiles can — nay, — marvel at the meticulous artistry governing the third chapter in Fox's shockingly good series of prequels to the Nixon-era cycle — while still acknowledging that the sight of a scowling,
