‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ review: Simian, begin again
by Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
May 09, 2024
2 minutes
Strange thing: The recent 2011-17 films in the “Planet of the Apes” franchise, now joined by the chapter opening this week, follow a similar narrative cycle of peril, punishment, survival. And yet these these movies, spaced out in ways Marvel never learned to respect, feel just fresh enough to matter — as long as you don’t mind the adverb “grimly” in front of a word like “compelling.”
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