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"...This mash-up of family drama and science fiction is a pleasant but unconvincing adventure with strong adolescent..."

"...What a story! This stranger-than-fiction documentary starts with the astonishing reunion of identical male..."

"...that sharply divides academic pursuits from vocational. The film’s science-fiction elements fail to engage our eyes or minds. In..."

"...Pine Ridge, The Rider is a stunning piece of fiction played close to the bone. Brady Blackburn, his father..."

"...ambitions may outstrip its accomplishments. Story elements blend science fiction, comedy, and drama to create tones and a trajectory..."

"...When Disney's groundbreaking science fiction oddity The Black Hole explodes back on the big..."

"...Sean Conway and Marc Forster (Monster’s Ball, Stranger Than Fiction), who also directed. I appreciated some of the low-key..."

"...resembles, in both style and content, his flamboyant 1997 science-fiction adventure The Fifth Element, a guilty pleasure that improves..."

"...sun and fill moon with light. Sadly, it’s only “Fiction.”..."

"...Arthur is caught in a world between documentary and fiction as Ott and Silver record his life and then..."

"...days holed up in his bedroom writing erotic fan fiction. For those who’ve never heard of this wildly popular..."

"...ending is revealed. The initial storyline plays like a science-fiction film in which Gabriel Drummer (LaBeouf) and his best..."

"...employee David Ghantt (a then-record $17 million payday!), the stranger-than-fiction premise about a romantically besotted buffoon (Galifianakis) who recklessly..."

"...the story, an example of “truth is stranger than fiction,” has all the thrust it needs, and then some...."

"...a man who changed the world.” So begins this stranger-than-fiction (ahem) account about a controversial maverick who rose to..."

"...are facts about early hominids and there are also fictions about early hominids. But when we asked Lydia Pyne..."

"...of chase films and thrillers, and maybe even science fiction. Yet as Nichols casts a wider net, fans of..."

"...psychedelic rock into a sonic storm. New album Night Fiction, showcased tonight (Wednesday) inside at Sidewinder, 9pm, spotlights voice..."

"...here. Based on the absurdly popular anthology of horror fiction that sold over 400 million books during its heyday,..."

"...The great science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke once wrote, "Any sufficiently advanced..."

"...Yet just as you begin settling into these science-fiction parameters and start pondering the wisdom of humanity’s vain..."

"...that In the Name of My Daughter is a “fiction based on real events,” a common narrative strategy in..."

"...chewed through. A rattling and ruminative piece of speculative fiction, Ex Machina is good enough to wish it were..."

"...the inaugural year of the city's first dedicated science fiction film festival leaves the winners of its awards, the..."

"...as an asset at first. Fascinatingly, unlike a spy fiction, the film tends to slow down as it goes..."

"...cinematic than narratively focused, more intuitive than coherent, this science-fiction romp from director Terry Gilliam explores a demented and..."

"...exhausted hostages are released to safety. Of course, this stranger-than-fiction account of a bank robbery gone terribly wrong inspired..."

"...eight guests cover the spectrum of the book world: fiction to nonfiction, local to international, new authors to old..."

"...Another Earth, Cahill and his brand of humanist science fiction are destined to appeal most to like-minded souls. Empiricists..."

"...is just another computer. Easily the most unique science fiction film I’ve come across in years, Under the Skin..."