The Trouble With ‘Encanto’? It Twerks Too Hard to Be Popular
With TikTok-optimized song and dance, Disney animated films have turned into multiplatform IP factories—and fall short as movies. Blame ‘Frozen.’
The Best Sci-Fi Movies of 2021
From Dune to Little Fish, they’re all love stories—though some are more touching than others.
The Best Sci-Fi Movies of 2021
From Dune to Little Fish, they’re all love stories—though some are more touching than others.
SPOILER ALERT: Spoiler Alerts Are Making Us All Stupid
If you think they’re protecting the experience of experiencing art, you’re more deluded than you know.
The Secret Sci-Fi Origins of Burning Man
Though almost nobody talks about it, the desert confab owes its existence to Mad Max, Lawrence of Arabia, and—very crucially, somewhat ironically—Dune.
Is Becky Chambers the Ultimate Hope for Science Fiction?
Her gentle, heartwarming stories seek to soothe our troubled souls. They also aim to blow up the entire genre.
The Futuristic Stink of Amazon’s Science Fiction
For years, the megacorporation has churned out sci-fi—Electric Dreams, Upload, Solos—that ranges from obnoxious to just plain noxious.
One Thing Covid Didn’t Smash to Pieces? Monster Movies
If you liked Godzilla vs. Kong, there’s more—and better—where that stupid, mindless clobberfest came from.
5 New Family-Friendly Movies and 1 Actually Good One
This year’s Oscar-nominated animated films have a uniformly safe, childish approach to death. But The Willoughbys—not nominated—will mess you up.