The best science fiction movies of the 21st century. Everett Collection Share [Editor’s Note: This list was originally published in May 2016 and has since been updated.] So…what is sci-fi? It’s not the easiest question to answer when “sci-fi elements” permeate so many of the bigg...
Lincoln in the Bardo takes place over the course of one evening in the as Abraham Lincoln’s late son Willie passes into the afterlife and the president mourns the loss of a child. Saying much more would spoil this wildly inventive work of fiction, but the idea that the bardo (the ...
“Snowpiercer” was sliced and diced by a certain He Who Won’t Be Acknowledged on its way to an eventual stateside release in the spring of 2014 by Radius-TWC, which all but dumped this brilliant science fiction film directed by Bong Joon Ho. You are pummeled by intense and in-your-fa...
70 best comedies of the 21st century – from rom-coms to raunch-coms, 'Anchorman' to 'Wet Hot American Summer.'
Critics Consensus: In dramatizing Rudy Ray Moore's stranger-than-fiction story, Eddie Murphy makes Dolemite Is My Name just as bold, brash, and ultimately hard to resist as its subject. Synopsis: Performer Rudy Ray Moore develops an outrageous character named Dolemite, who becomes an undergrou...
Two decades on, Gladwell is often accused of oversimplification and cherry picking, but his idiosyncratic bestsellers have helped shape 21st-century culture. 93 Darkmans by Nicola Barker (2007) British fiction’s most anarchic author is as prolific as she is playful, but this freewheeling, ...
Historical fiction about Maud, an orphan, who is adopted out-of-the-blue by two elderly sisters. Her new guardians lavish her with new clothes on their way home to their large home, but then make her hide in the attic when guests come. They have a plan for Maud to help them in ...
The best science fiction books out there are listed below: old and new, popular and obscure, straightforward and super-weird.
It hardly needs mentioning, but not all science-fiction is created equal. Even as a term, it’s difficult to pin down exactly what constitutes sci-fi, especially in a medium like TV that can change so much from week to week or season to season. So when we took stock of the best TV...
The winner of the National Book Award for Non-Fiction, Between the World and Me was hailed when it was published as a work destined to become a classic. In the years since its arrival, it has only become more essential. 7. Going Clear by Lawrence Wright, 2013 Getty Images Wright ...