Perfect directing and vfx/cinematography on a long flawed script

Rating: 9/10 (26 December 2017)

Denis Villeneuve has set a new bar with this masterpiece of directing and cinematography. You can literally take any frame from this film and blow it up into a poster print, hang it on a wall, and you have art!
My problems with this film are the long dragged out scenes that made this film almost 3 hours long, the yet enjoyable score that was way too loud/evident in some scenes, and even though I'm a fan of Ryan Gosling, this wasn't the role for him. He was too stale and monotonic, and I had trouble hearing his lines in certain parts as if he was mumbling to himself. There were far better choices to cast. However, all the rest of the cast where excellent.
Still, a visual masterpiece that would have been perfect had my areas of critique been absent. A 9/10 from me.