Opinion | New 'Shining' sequel 'Doctor Sleep' is both a disappointment and an education

Opinion | Noah Berlatsky: 'Doctor Sleep' is more honest but less artful than Stanley Kubrick's brilliant 'The Shining'. - NBCNewsTHINK

"Doctor Sleep" even brings in lookalike actors. Henry Thomas reproducing Jack Nicholson's Jack Torrance is a high or low point, depending on your perspective. Either way, Dan walks through his past, which is also our past, a tour guide pointing out memories of an older, better movie. You may smile in appreciation along with Rose when the blood starts pouring out of the elevator.

"Doctor Sleep" gets you on the side of the Overlook. And by doing so, it suggests that you were on the side of the Overlook all the time. The fun part of Kubrick's movie was always the merciless surrealism. Jack Torrance is a boring, corny nonentity before the demons get ahold of him.

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