65 review: Timing is a bit off in Adam Driver's dinosaur thriller
29 March 2023
The premise of this science fiction film from Scott Beck and Bryan Woods doesn't hold up to close scrutiny and the narrative can be jarringly slow-paced
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Atomic Light review: Solar astronomers rescue an uneven installation
22 March 2023
Four films make up Atomic Light by video and installation artist David Blandy, a work marred by overstatement, but saved by the story of two solar astronomers who drew the sun on the day of the Hiroshima blast
Extrapolations review: Can this climate sci-fi make us care?
22 March 2023
Earth's climate is reeling out of control in this eight-part sci-fi series stuffed with A-listers. From one of the minds behind An Inconvenient Truth, it is heavy on messaging, but lacks some focus
Don't Miss: 65, a sci-fi dinosaur thriller by writers of A Quiet Place
8 March 2023
New Scientist's weekly round-up of the best books, films, TV series, games and more that you shouldn't miss
How to understand wormholes and their weird quantum effects
6 March 2023
Classical relativity suggests that nothing could pass through a wormhole and exit, but quantum effects change that, says space reporter Leah Crane
Creature review: Human nature is key to a sci-fi ballet
5 March 2023
The ballet Creature, adapted for film, worries about how we treat other primates, but its subtleties are overwhelmed by simple moralising and a metaphor that doesn’t work. The dancing is superb, though
Animalia review: Intriguing sci-fi thriller, shame about the aliens
24 February 2023
Faith, freedom and spirituality are key to a well-made sci-fi psychological thriller, Animalia. But writer-director Sofia Alaoui leaves the aliens dangling in an unsatisfying ending
The Longest Goodbye review: A poignant documentary on space psychology
15 February 2023
Astronaut Cady Coleman playing duets with her Earth-bound son is among the moving and candid moments from The Longest Goodbye, Ido Mizrahy's poignant exploration of the psychology of space travel
Hello Tomorrow! review: Selling holiday homes on the moon
15 February 2023
Apple TV+'s compelling new science-fiction offering is a retro-futurist piece, more 20th-century US social drama than technofest
A message for today from last century's vast telephone exchanges
15 February 2023
A telecommunications museum in Seattle, with a working exchange from the 1940s, shows how telephones brought us together – but also tore us apart, says Annalee Newitz
