Episode three of our Stephen King mini-season! Doctor Sleep is an ambitious sequel that tries to thread an impossible needle: honoring Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining while faithfully adapting Stephen King’s very different novel. Director Mike Flanagan delivers moments of genuine emotional power and some solid horror, but the film was largely ignored upon release in 2019. Why wasn't it better?

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