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Plus, coming into “Dune: Prophecy” as a stone-cold uninitiate is a challenge for which the script compensates using a combination of summary via narration and a brief, expository title card.

Some of the dialogue is frankly expository, seemingly designed to educate viewers.

Herzog’s adaptation prunes away the expository overgrowth of Ibsen’s satiric drama.

There might be a little too much description, and long, learned, expository passages coming out of the mouths of police sergeants.

The choice to only gradually unfurl what’s going on — there are no clunky expository speeches here to establish the rules of the world for us — draws us in.