The Best Sequels of the 21st Century: 'Blade Runner 2049,' 'The Last Jedi,' and More
Briefly

"Sequels aren't always terrible. On the contrary, some of them are pretty great! The last 17 years have been so overrun by sequels, reboots, seboots, and requels that people have bemoaned the film business' lack of creativity, but a small handful of these movies have leveraged their franchises to create something special."
"Whether deepening a beloved character ('Spider-Man 2'), deconstructing a sacred saga ('The Last Jedi'), or breathing fiery new life into a dormant legend ('Mad Max: Fury Road'), these sequels proved that Hollywood isn't out of new ideas, they're just hiding them in plain sight."
"Denis Villeneuve's 2017 sci-fi spectacle took audiences back to a future Los Angeles that was somehow even more bleak than the one first imagined... Villeneuve and star Ryan Gosling strived to make Gosling's K his own thing, toiling in a familiar world with new secrets to unearth."
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