The Dog Stars Review: Disjointed Pieces of the Post-Apocalypse

The Dog Stars Review: Disjointed Pieces of the Post-Apocalypse

The Dog Stars doesn't have an original bone in its body, and its execution isn't good enough to make up for its tonal disjointedness.

Review: The Dog Stars is Watchable Yet Adds Nothing New

The thing about post-apocalyptic movies is that, so far, Earth has avoided living through any of the kind of apocalypses depicted. This enables filmmakers to come up with myriad ways to play out the events. However, almost all of these films include familiar tropes: the anxiety that leads to rage as resources dwindle, which then […]

The Dog Stars Review: Ridley Scott’s latest is uneven but entertaining

PLOT: Years after a pandemic has wiped out most of civilization, Hig (Jacob Elordi), a civilian pilot and mechanic, is holed up in a compound with his dog Jasper and his survivalist buddy, Bangley (Josh Brolin). When he receives a call originating from other survivors, he takes his plane to try and find some trace of civilization, even if roaming scavengers and other dangers make the new world an exceedingly grim and dangerous place. REVIEW: I m…

‘The Dog Stars’ review: Jacob Elordi and Margaret Qualley ...

Josh Brolin and Guy Pearce also star in the director’s near-future set adaptation of the novel by Peter Heller