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It: Chapter Two

It. Chapter Two

2019

Andy Muschietti

Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Isaiah Mustafa, James Ransone ...

5.6

18,322

Horror. Fantasy Twenty-seven years after their first encounter with the terrifying Pennywise, the Losers Club have grown up and moved away, until a devastating phone call brings them back.

	Media	Author	Review
		Peter Debruge Variety	"An elaborate fun-house horror movie that springs pop-up gimmicks and boogie-boogie scares steadily enough to excuse its been-there story and self-important 169-minute running time.
		Griffin Schiller The Playlist	"The journey isn’t as tight or as focused as ‘Chapter One’ but Muschietti manages to successfully close the book on the Losers’ Club with his frightening and emotional film."
		John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"Less fun (...) [It] puts excellent thesps in the parts but winds up feeling much less satisfying."
		A. O. Scott The New York Times	"[It] drags more than it jumps, wearing out its premise and possibly also your patience as it lumbers toward the final showdown (...) Along the way there is some fun (...) to be found."
		Brian Truitt USA Today	"[It] packs enough monsters and scares in its 2 hours and 45 minutes to satiate gore hounds. It’s also an ambitious, thought-provoking work that aims for more [than the original] (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		William Bibbiani Bloody Disgusting	"It’s easy to watch and enjoy it as a fright flick. It’s just harder to connect with the adult versions of these characters than it should be, and it’s harder to take this story seriously than it was before (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"A movie with enough scare power to tap you on your subconscious just before you fall asleep tonight (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"
		Katie Rife AV Club	"[It] isn’t an abject failure by any means; it has some funny jokes, a couple of really good performances (...) and pleasing cinematography. But when it comes down to it, 'It Chapter Two' just isn’t all that scary."
		Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"Returning to your hometown is more terrifying than any CGI corpse (...) A very fine follow-up to the most successful horror film ever (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Kate Erbland IndieWire	"Andy Muschietti's much-anticipated sequel boasts another flawless cast, but a meandering script and played-out scares keep it from rising to the top"
		Joshua Rothkopf Time Out	"The hype is justified: It: Chapter Two improves on its predecessor in nearly every way (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Alex Godfrey Empire	"A psychologically merciless sequel, everything here is as it should be: deeper, scarier, funnier. Muschietti in particular has stepped up (...) It is obscenely entertaining (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"The truly scary thing about this painfully long horror show is the possibility of a third movie (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Clarisse Loughrey The Independent	"[It] is full of wit and imagination but also suffers from narrative excess (...) [It] is horror created in the blockbuster mould (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Tim Robey Telegraph	"Hader’s wonderful ability to meld humour and horror, using each to animate the other, is the best special effect that money can buy (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Chris Hunneysett Mirror	"[It] is entertaining - and chilling - as a standalone film (...) Full of strong character work, crowd-pleasing humour and eye-watering rip-your-throat-out terror (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Brian Lloyd entertainment.ie	"It overextends itself to the point where it becomes bloated and wearisome. It's still a lot of fun (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Tara Brady Irish Times	"[It] generates an average of one fright per hour, not very much bang for your buck. Suspense is entirely eschewed in favour of embarrassing attempts at humour (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"
		Sinead Brennan RTÉ	"The adult roles were excellently cast, but despite the starry line-up, no one really has the chance to shine too brightly (...) It's too long, too repetitive, and just too much (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"
		Paul Whitington Irish Independent	"Bill Hader provides welcome moments of humour, and Jessica Chastain makes Beverly the character you care most about in this film. But the Spielbergian charm of It is largely absent (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"

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