The Mirage of the Wasteland: Why Ridley Scott’s ‘The Dog Stars’ Feels Like a Departure into Vacuity
Ridley Scott has spent nearly half a century defining the visual vocabulary of cinema. From the claustrophobic, industrial dread of Alien (1979) to the historical grandeur of Gladiator (2000) and the visceral, mud-caked realism of The Last Duel (2021),…