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The Inverse Interview
American Society of Magical Negroes Remixes the “Lore” of the Black Experience

The director and star unpack the film’s trickiest choices.

ByLyvie Scott
Feature
Time Travel on a Budget

Why indie sci-fi loves to go back in time.

ByKayleigh Donaldson
Feature
Indie Animation Reigns

The team behind the acclaimed sci-fi animated show Scavengers Reign detail their long, strange trip to the screen.

ByHoai-Tran Bui
The Inverse Interview
Dune 2 Writer Reveals Why They Changed Alia

“We were a little leery of that talking toddler.”

ByHoai-Tran Bui
The Inverse Interview
Why So Serious?

Vera Drew's The People's Joker takes on the superhero movie industrial complex.

ByDais Johnston
Exclusive
The Director of Love Lies Bleeding Weighs In On Its Trippy Ending

The A24 thriller isn’t afraid to get weird — or to confront our notions of love.

ByLyvie Scott
The Inverse Interview
“Trashy, But Beautiful”: Love Lies Bleeding Relishes In Its Toxic Love Affair

The director and star of Love Lies Bleeding talk about bringing the sapphic neo-noir to life.

ByLyvie Scott
Exclusive
Why Dune 2’s Thrilling Gladiator Fight Had to Be in Black-and-White

Denis Villeneuve and Greig Fraser reveal why Giedi Prime’s monochromatic look was more than just an aesthetic choice.

ByHoai-Tran Bui
Spoilers
Spaceman’s Ending Explained By Adam Sandler, Paul Dano, and Director Johan Renck

“It’s almost a string theory idea that time doesn’t exist.”

ByJake Kleinman
The Inverse Interview
How Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two Rejects the White Savior Myth

“Frank Herbert didn't want to do a white savior story. He wanted to do the opposite.”

ByHoai-Tran Bui
Exclusive
Why Doesn't Dune 2 Have a Post-Credits Scene? Denis Villeneuve Has a Good Reason

Here's why a certain cameo doesn't happen.

ByHoai-Tran Bui and Ryan Britt
The Inverse Interview
Shogun Finally Gives Hiroyuki Sanada the Role He Deserves

The team behind the samurai epic explains why now is the right time to revisit the classic story.

ByHoai-Tran Bui
The Inverse Interview
Is Adam Sandler’s New Sci-Fi Movie a Secret Anti-Capitalist Allegory?

“It’s a reflection on the spectacle that is human life in modern days. We are here led to believe that we’re here to buy shit.”

ByJake Kleinman
Exclusive
True Detective Season 4’s Showrunner Explains The Spiral’s True Meaning

Issa López explains just why there were so many Season 1 Easter eggs in Night Country.

ByDais Johnston
The Inverse Interview
Avatar: The Last Airbender Grows Up

Showrunner Albert Kim talks to Inverse about adapting the beloved animated series.

ByHoai-Tran Bui
Exclusive
Why Dune 2 Had to Change the Bene Gesserit

Denis Villeneuve’s epic sequel puts a fresh emphasis on the cosmic sisterhood.

ByRyan Britt and Hoai-Tran Bui

Reviews

Review
Immaculate Is the Loudest Horror Movie You’ve Ever Heard

The movie’s good ideas fall victim to overbearing horror filmmaking.

BySiddhant Adlakha
Review
Cuckoo Is Maddeningly Close to Being a Great Surreal Horror Movie

Tilman Singer’s follow-up to his superb demonic debut is a mixed bag.

ByMatt Donato
Review
Civil War Will Set Your Senses Ablaze

Alex Garland’s terrifying dystopian war movie takes an apolitical bent for a political purpose.

BySiddhant Adlakha
Review
The Animal Kingdom Takes Mutants Very Seriously

French Teen Wolf, hold the basketball.

ByDais Johnston
Review
The American Society of Magical Negroes Fails to Juggle Two Worlds

The satire is Key & Peele by way of Harry Potter, but those disparate themes never completely gel.

ByLyvie Scott
Review
The Fall Guy Is Full-Gear Popcorn Entertainment at Its Finest

David Leitch’s fun-filled love letter to stunt work is everything you want it to be.

ByMatt Donato
Review
Monkey Man Is a Kick-Ass Directorial Debut for Dev Patel

Welcome to the era of Dev Patel, action hero.

ByMatt Donato
TV
Star Trek: Discovery Season 5 Boldly Goes Out On A High Note

The Trek series that relaunched the franchise is going out on an upbeat note.

ByRyan Britt
Review
Sasquatch Sunset is Moving and Grossly Adorable

The Zellner Brothers cast big-time actors as grunting, pooping cryptids — and it works like a charm.

BySiddhant Adlakha
Review
Road House is Fun, But Embodies the Worst of Modern Hollywood

Doug Liman’s remake of the 1989 classic falls victim to a ruthless studio system that squeezes art for cash.

BySiddhant Adlakha
Review
Netflix’s 3 Body Problem Flattens a Singular Sci-Fi Saga

Liu Cixin’s acclaimed sci-fi epic gets the event TV treatment, for better and for worse.

ByHoai-Tran Bui
Inverse Recommends
Damsel Is a Flimsy Feminist Fantasy With Grit

Stranger Things’ Millie Bobby Brown stars in a Ready Or Not-inspired fantasy.

ByLyvie Scott
Review
Imaginary is an Underwhelming Scare-Fest Totally Devoid of Scares

Anyone could imagine a scarier horror movie than this.

ByMatt Donato
Review
Netflix’s The Gentlemen Is a Stale Retread of Guy Ritchie’s Greatest Hits

After decades of telling the same story, Ritchie’s finally run out of ways to make it feel fresh.

ByLyvie Scott
Review
Adam Sandler Gives One of His Best Performances in the Overly Subdued Spaceman

Sandler talks to a giant spider in a dour space drama.

ByHoai-Tran Bui
Review
The Regime Is a Political Thriller in a Funhouse Mirror

It’s Elena’s world; we’re just living in it.

ByDais Johnston