Candyman, 2021 - ★★★

Second viewing: in a theater.

Thematic complaints remain intact, but it's a movie that just LOOKS better on the big screen:

"DaCosta’s utilization of long zoom-ins and zoom-outs play better with a massive image; at one point we start on a wide shot of gentrified Chicago and its restaurants and storefronts before zooming in and in and in until Anthony is singled out, followed, marked—a lone bee in the hive. At another point she zooms out from an apartment’s façade while a murder, which we can see through the window, takes place. The move highlights the loneliness of crowded city living: yes, she’s surrounded by folks, but the people stacked above and below her don’t realize she’s dying an ugly death. Also, you can just see what’s happening during this sequence better because...

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