One of my favorite movies of 2017, “War for the Planet of the Apes,” posited near-total human extinction as a more-or-less happy ending. A radically dystopian future seems like the best we deserve ...

The idea, developed in response to astonishing new strides in the lab from a bunch of Norwegian scientists, is to reduce humanity’s negative impact on a fatally damaged planet. You downsize, you ...

With “Downsizing,” Alexander Payne takes his compassionate social satire into a new realm -- science fiction. But the picture isn’t scary sci-fi or an action-filled adventure. It’s another of Payne’s ...