Review: Halloween (2018)

by Patrick Bromley

Blade Runner 2049: a legacy sequel that has its share of problems but which honors the original and justifies returning to this material all these years later. It's more than just the sigh of relief we can collectively breathe that they didn't fuck it all up; the filmmakers have managed to move the story along while still addressing new concerns -- in short, the original and the sequel are about different things, and that's rare in any sequel, much less one made 40 years later. It functions as a beautiful bookend to the 1978 film, paying off not just the reunion of these two opposing forces but also the decades in between that took place off camera. It rewards us for caring for all these years and hopefully gives Laurie Strode the peace she deserves. Lord knows she's earned it.