Movies

Star Trek: The Motion Picture is the most expensive screensaver in cinema history. Paramount gave Robert Wise a budget that dwarfed the entire television series and Wise spent most of it on shots of…

The 1978 Body Snatchers remake improves on the 1956 original in one crucial respect: it doesn’t flinch at its own ending. Philip Kaufman follows the premise to its logical conclusion — the pods…

A.I. Artificial Intelligence is a film with a powerful first act and an ending so tonally miscalibrated it damages everything that preceded it. Stanley Kubrick developed the project for years before…

Predestination is a clever puzzle in search of a reason to exist. The temporal loop at its center — a person who is their own parent, their own child, and their own nemesis — is logically…