Dredd (2012 Future Cult Classic)
The twelfth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 2012 features our future cult classic pick, comic book adaptation Dredd. Directed by Pete Travis from a screenplay by Alex Garland and starring Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby, Lena Headey, Wood Harris and Domhnall Gleeson, Dredd was based on the long-running Judge Dredd character created by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra in the anthology series 2000 AD.
The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Darren Franich in Entertainment Weekly (https://ew.com/article/2012/10/19/dredd-3d/), Simon Abrams in The Village Voice, and Keith Phipps in the AV Club (https://www.avclub.com/dredd-1798174246).
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