Venice Review: Thrilling 'Everest' is Guaranteed to Enhance Mountain-Climbing Fears

"Never let go," pleads the tagline for "Everest," a bracing depiction of an ill-fated 1996 expedition to climb the Himalayan mountain. While that likely refers to the risky exploits depicted onscreen, it could just as well serve as a mantra for woozy audiences enduring their own traumas through Baltasar Kormákur's nausea-inspiring adventure. Equal parts spectacle and harrowing survival tale, "Everest" also serves as a kind of bid for the survival of the ever-imperiled moviegoing experience, with the IMAX-enhanced thrills masterfully engineered to bring its mountain-climbing fears to horrific light. Released in the same window of time as the...

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