Four-time Oscar-nominated director Ridley Scott isn’t just one of Hollywood’s most prolific blockbuster filmmakers. He’s the rare artist who knows how to visually paint on a big-screen canvas. His new film, The Dog Stars, reconfirms that reputation, its story embellished with striking aerial panoramas of the misty Colorado mountains that evoke both grand beauty and loneliness.
Unfortunately, no amount of aesthetic splendor can compensate for the derivativeness of the director’s latest, a post-apocalyptic yarn that’s stitched together from the decomposing parts of its genre ancestors. Headlined by a squandered Jacob Elordi, Margaret Qualley, Josh Brolin, and Guy Pearce, it has many stars and yet proves a mangy dog.
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