Dystopian thrillers offer a way for filmmakers to show a horrifying future for the world, or to criticize current social conditions by pushing them to the extreme. These films have been around since ...

It happened to an electrical engineer from New Hampshire, a medical researcher at Harvard University, and an aging auntie from Seattle—all of them permanent residents. They were each returning home to ...

Asif Kapadia's 2073 received little attention when it came out near the end of 2024. It’s not exactly holiday fare: this vision of a bleak dystopian future wracked by environmental cataclysms and ...

The saying goes that it takes two to tango, but What Happened to Monday suggests it takes seven to survive a dystopian future where siblings are outlawed. With Noomi Rapace taking on the lead role ...

When novelists look to the future, the view is often grim. There are a lot more fictional dystopias than utopias. Ian McEwan has good news and bad news about what lies ahead in “ What We Can Know,” a ...

Ian McEwan's new novel, "What We Can Know," is a literary mystery set in a dystopian future. The story follows a scholar in the year 2119 searching for a lost poem from the 21st century. The novel ...