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Candyman's Rotten Tomatoes score confirmed
Nia DaCosta's Candyman seems to have convinced most critics with her reimagining of the 1992 horror movie of the same name.
Produced by Get Out director Jordan Peele, this new film taps into the original story with a modern twist. The action is set in the now-gentrified Chicago's Cabrini Green neighbourhood, where the legend of the man with a hook for a hand lives again.
Initial reviews dropped yesterday (August 25), with DaCosta's spiritual sequel scoring an excellent 86% on movie review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. This score could change as more reviews come in.
While we wouldn't dare say his name five times – or fewer, for that matter – Digital Spy was among the outlets reviewing DaCosta's horror, calling it "a memorable experience".
Below is a round-up of the mixed reviews for Candyman, starring Yahya Abdul Mateen II and Teyonah Parris.
Digital Spy
"The approach to continue the legacy rather than remake it also allows Candyman to appeal to audiences old and new. There are refreshers of what happened in the 1992 original, but they don't feel like an exposition dump and naturally work as a ghost story that Cabrini Green residents would tell each other."
Little White Lies
"While the film never seems to settle on Candyman's agency and a few interpersonal relationships could have done with more than a single scene, this is still a searing and exceptional piece of work."
Polygon
"That's a general problem with the script, written by Jordan Peele, Win Rosenfeld, and DaCosta: Candyman is so message-driven that it flattens into a generic fable."
Empire
"One of DaCosta's finest touches is the intermittent shadow-plays recounting various urban myths, a nod to an oral tradition of storytelling that preserves the repeatedly decimated history of African Americans. While doing this, it reaches the existentially terrifying fatalism of its predecessor, in how it emphasises inevitable, continuing cycles of white supremacy and continuing inter-generational pain."
Vulture
"This Candyman misunderstands the allure of the original and has nothing meaningful to say about the contemporary ideas it observes with all the scrutiny of someone rushing through a Starbucks order on their way to work."
The Guardian
"This film is a very tasty confection of satire and scorn."
Entertainment Weekly
"Who can take a reboot, sprinkle it with something new, cover it with blood and bumblebees and a pointed social commentary or two? Candyman can, at least for a little while, even if the movie doesn't really find its more-than-body-horror groove in the end."
Vanity Fair
"The movie prefers to tell rather than show, making for an incomplete fusion of social commentary and gothic scares."
Time Out
"Right from the first frame, DaCosta is always doing something interesting with the camera."
Candyman is released in cinemas on August 27.
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