By Kathryn Whitney Boole The film “Midnight Special” is a distinctive and brilliant telling of a mysterious tale. The premise involves the age-old science fiction theme of hidden worlds. The ...

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Whether something is fake or fiction, “it doesn’t really matter here,” Niyya says. But it does, very much so, because she and Theodore might share a crucial connection.

Here we go again — the mood is not sunny in science fiction these days. The United States of the year 2073 is a nightmare of extremes in this feature from the director Asif Kapadia.