Tag: Science-Fiction

  • The 10 best alien encounter movies (that aren’t about invasion)

    Is there life on other planets? Judging by most films over the years, one would think humans are terrified by that possibility. Cinema’s default on space aliens has been hostile. For science-fiction of the 1950s, preoccupations with the Cold War and atomic nightmares tended to envision little green men as being bent on world domination.…

  • Lady in the Water (2006)

    Judging by the charges of rank self-indulgence that M. Night Shyamalan endured at the time for Lady in the Water, you might half-expect it to be 108 minutes of the director singing in the shower, brushing his teeth, and taking a dump while reading the Philadelphia Inquirer. The movie’s reception by critics in 2006 was…

  • Don’t Worry Darling (2022)

    After all the offscreen drama that surrounded the Venice Film Festival premiere of Don’t Worry Darling, you would have expected a dumpster fire of a movie. But it isn’t that. While Olivia Wilde’s sophomore directorial outing (after 2019’s Booksmart) isn’t an entirely satisfying thriller, it’s also not exactly a dud. Think of it as a…