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.
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.
A Sexy Theory of Consciousness Gets All Up in Your Feelings
Neuroscience is bad at explaining what it’s like to be alive. Mark Solms thinks he can change that—with help from, of all people, Freud.
The Backward-Looking Futurism of Stewart Brand
In a new documentary about his life, We Are As Gods, the famous tech prophet looks to his—and Earth’s—past.
The Wanting Mare Is the Most Visual Fantasy in Recent Memory
It asks you to dig into your past—with the help of some magic horses.