Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 

As Rey (Daisy Ridley) is in Jedi training, Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) faces threats from both the Resistance and an emperor who is supposed to be dead… The final chapter…

Dark Phoenix

In 1992, a dangerous incident in space involving the Endeavour brings great new powers to Jean Grey (Sophie Turner). Set nine years after X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), this film wasn’t really…

Stalker: Secrets of the Zone

Photo: Goskino Andrei Tarkovsky’s crew found a grim place to shoot the scenes inside the film’s mystical Zone – two deserted hydro power plants just outside Tallinn. There had also…

Venom 

Down-on-his-luck investigative journalist Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) is infected by an alien lifeform, which gives him awkward new powers to fight the industrialist (Riz Ahmed) who caused his downfall. Venom…

Terminator: Dark Fate 

The sixth film continues a franchise tradition: serving up impressive action just like its predecessors, but also disowning those movies at the same time. This one continues two decades after…

Solaris: Journey of the Mind

Donatas Banionis. Photo: Mosfilm He’s admired now, but in the late 1960s Andrei Tarkovsky wasn’t doing so well. His second film, Andrei Rublev, had not been released due to controversial…

A Quiet Place

The Abbotts are trying to survive in a world that has been overtaken by large, vicious monsters; the only way to escape their notice is to remain absolutely quiet. Here’s…

Resident Evil: Apocalypse 

Alice (Milla Jovovich), who survived the troubles inside The Hive, now fights to live another day in Raccoon City that lies on top of the doomed facility; the whole place…

Dune 

Sometime in the future, somewhere in the universe, the Emperor is planning to have a young man (Kyle MacLachlan), who could pose a threat, killed. David Lynch’s greatest failure has…

Aniara 

Sometime in the future, passengers are boarding a spacecraft that will take them from an ailing Earth to Mars, but Aniara subsequently faces a tremendous challenge… Swedish science fiction may…