science-fiction
Takashi Yamazaki goes bigger, darker, and more explicitly anti-American in a sequel whose jaw-dropping destruction outmuscles its uneven human drama.
From haunted islands to Gilead and outer space, four series keep the scary season alive.
Nathan Fielder’s “You Can See Everything” turns the Theranos saga into a revelatory, Philip K. Dickian inquiry into artifice, identity, and truth.
The stories in this collection are uneven, although to my mind the beauty and brilliance of the best outweigh the others.
“Soylent Green” should be seen as a work of future history, a docudrama of things that, in 1973, had yet to happen but are happening now, 50 years later.
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
In this adaptation for Hulu, Octavia E. Butler’s hybrid sci-fi novel has been reduced to a misguided time travel mystery.
I am a champion of “C” movie effects, the cheaper and clunkier the better. So huzzahs for Save Yourselves! and its tacky monsters from another planet.
In space, no one can hear you go extinct.
Book Appreciation: “Gulliver’s Travels” at 300 — Small Men, Tech Bro Delusions
Jonathan Swift’s satire of power, flattery, and human folly feels uncomfortably at home in the age of Trump and artificial intelligence.
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