Scifi

Avatar (2009)

…the film’s message may be obtuse and heavy-handed, but its shockingly powerful visual composition is sure…

…glee-inducing fan service, peppered over flagrant disregard for the established logic of the franchise.

…adds to the existing story without detracting from it, builds on old ideas while introducing new ones, and it does right by…

Anyone who’s ever felt alone in a crowd will identify with the primordial terror running through…

In the hands of body-horror maestro David Cronenberg… things quite literally start falling apart.

…honors its predecessor and blazes its own path forward. As a youth, I wore out a library tape of “Aliens”…

“The Haunting” doesn’t try to get into your head; it puts you inside of its own.

…so terrifically terrible it’s almost required viewing.