By: Lydia Millet

Beware the hyper-powerful otherness of people who look Scandinavian.

By: James Hannaham

Americans, like kids everywhere, must have seen and identified with their own gleeful nihilism.

By: Seth

For such a special-effects extravaganza it’s surprisingly a rather small film.

By: Susannah Breslin

Like Alex, we can’t help but love the horrorshow.

By: Gerald Peary

It’s underwater, the Creature’s domain, where the id runs free.

By: Adam Harrison Levy

There is a powerful irony watching the film in August 2020.

By: Lisa Jane Persky

As quickly as we glean the gist it is more and less forgotten.

By: Sara Ryan

“The only industry left on our planet was the manufacturing of spaceships!”

By: Carolyn Kellogg

They just talk to each other, with the vast desert landscape as backdrop.

By: Karinne Keithley Syers

The precision of every visible movement, nothing naturalistic, not even the breathing.

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: Jeff Malmberg

A film gets to be many things, including sometimes a recipe.

By: William Nericcio

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

By: Vicente Lozano

To Ahmad, the notebook is everything.