Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day ending challenges modern cynicism with a hopeful vision of humanity.

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The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist having a Eureka moment, realising in a single dramatic instant that Earth is ...

Purchase Current Issue or Login to Download the PDF of this Issue Download the PDF of this Issue Columbia and Paul, Weiss are reprising the gutlessness last seen in the McCarthy era. D.D. Guttenplan ...

For a tournament often billed as the world’s greatest sporting spectacle, the men’s World Cup seems curiously underrepresented in cinema. By our reckoning, there have been only 20 fictional films — ...

It's one thing to watch "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" in a theater. Watching it with Steven Spielberg? That's a master class. Viewing a scene with Richard Dreyfuss, the conditions of filming ...

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