By: Gary Panter

The mission’s leader is the scariest monster in the movie.

By: Rob Walker

The point of the huge lie is protecting an idea of truth.

By: William Nericcio

A lurid, Vonnegut-esque dissection of the America to come.

By: Lucy Sante

Weaponry, war between sexes, television culture, moral decay, and of course advertising…

By: Mark Kingwell

Every kid I knew had a favourite Thunderbird.

By: Devin McKinney

The machines are our friends. They want to help.

By: Chris Lanier

The tinny smallness of the IKARIE XB-1 acquires an urgent poignancy.

By: Dan Fox

The movie’s meaning is dreamily fungible.

By: Kio Stark

“She’ll be like one of those robots in Disneyland.”

By: Peggy Nelson

Is it copies all the way down?

By: Lynn Peril

Could 50-foot Nancy be read as a metaphor for women’s anger?

By: Mimi Lipson

Shirtless lotharios lounge about on leopard-skin throws eating Clark bars…

By: Joshua Glenn

An eroticized, non-repressive, egalitarian America. By any means necessary.

By: Michael Lewy

Pre-CGI effects allowed us to focus, which gave our brains time to create memories.

By: Adam McGovern

He has to leave the planet… and take the wilderness with him.