Ewan McGregor stars in a sequel to the 1980 horror film "The Shining." The film is also based on a Stephen King book.

The now-grown and troubled survivor of The Shining, played by Ewan McGregor, meets old ghosts in Mike Flanagan’s effectively unsettling sequel, which r...

The movie simultaneously attempts to honor both Stephen King’s writing and Stanley Kubrick's iconic film, "The Shining."

The satisfying follow-up nods to both King’s novel and Stanley Kubrick’s movie

What is the hold that “The Shining” has over us, culturally? It’s the popularity of Stephen King, indeed, but it’s also, specifically, Stanley Kubric...

‘Doctor Sleep’ owes a bigger debt to the Stanley Kubrick film than the books, with Ewan McGregor as Dan Torrance in a movie that flames out down the stretch

H-e-e-ere's Ewan! Ewan McGregor stars as the grown-up Danny Torrance, who takes a peek in the new horror film 'Doctor Sleep,' a sequel to Stanley Kubrick's…

Ewan McGregor stars in follow-up film that stands on its own, for the most part

Mike Flanagan adapts Stephen King's bestselling novel in a long-awaited sequel to The Shining. Read the Empire review.

Don’t overlook this spiritual sequel to The Shining. But don’t expect it get close to Kubrick’s original, either.

THR review: In 'Doctor Sleep,' Mike Flanagan's big-screen follow-up to 'The Shining,' Ewan McGregor stars as little Danny Torrance all grown up.

Mike Flanagan's adaptation of King's novel is an ambitious homage to the movie and the book that proves why they never clicked.

Ewan McGregor plays an all-grown-up Danny Torrance in an inspired horror-fantasy that seeks to reconcile Stephen King and Stanley Kubrick.

Ewan McGregor retreads familiar ground in this sequel to Stephen King’s (and Stanley Kubrick’s) The Shining.

James Mangold’s strongest film yet, starring Christian Bale and Matt Damon, feels like a character study strapped into an action flick.

Mike Flanagan directs a meandering, imitative sequel to both the Stephen King book and the Stanley Kubrick movie, The Shining; its nonhorror elements prove m...

Heeeeeeere’s Johnny…’s review of “Doctor Sleep.” If you’ve ever sat up at night thinking, “What happened to Shelley Duvall and the creepy kid i...

While one can sometimes feel Flanagan struggling to satisfy both King and Kubrick fans when he really should be trusting his own vision, he’s talented enou...

It takes forever to get going. “Doctor Sleep” has to give us all this backstory, remind us who Danny Torrance, the kid with “The Shining,” was. It ha...

'Doctor Sleep' brings 'The Shining's Danny Torrance—and moviegoers—back to the Overlook Hotel. Peter Travers on the King-and-Kubrick sequel.

"Doctor Sleep" feels like a logical continuation of the plot in Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining."

Both Stephen King and Stanley Kubrick fans should be happy with Mike Flanagan’s adaptation.

Ewan McGregor is the grown up Danny Torrance struggling to control his demons in this sequel to The Shining

Like a traumatized psyche, it remains uncomfortably stuck in the past, replaying familiar events in an effort to empty them of terror.

Mike Flanagan’s follow-up to "The Shining" strives to pay homage to Stanley Kubrick’s classic and remain faithful to Stephen King’s original novel.

Finding the right way to approach Doctor Sleep requires a bizarre amount of extra-textual introspection. Here we have a film that is a sequel to The Shining ...

Mike Flanagan’s Doctor Sleep serves mostly as a reminder of just how potent Stanley Kubrick’s film was. Or Stephen King’s original novel

Not overlooking Kubrick is well-intentioned, but the film undercuts its own compelling new story

As a grownup Danny Torrance, Ewan McGregor fights psychic vampires and returns to the Overlook in Stephen King's 'The Shining' sequel 'Doctor Sleep.'

Mike Flanagan's new Stephen King adaption, starring Ian McEwan, is satisfyingly chock-full of dread—and bogged down by too many nods to The Shining.

Stephen King's 2013 sequel to 'The Shining' gets turned into a movie that's long and prosaic but also creepy and scary.

Mike Flanagan’s spiritual sequel to The Shining is elevated by great performances. But King’s and Kubrick’s legacies loom large.

Doctor Sleep is a conflicted and unwieldy sequel attempting to unite worlds (King and Kubrick) while telling an original story from yet another filmmaker's v...