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...Roswell, who turn out to be refugees from a crashed spacecraft escaping an interstellar war. This 1999-2002 series lasted only about as long as high school does, but the final season shows why it is missed: it cut its high emotion with humor and grounded its sometimes loopy sci-fi adventure in the Romeo-Juliet affair between space boy Max (Jason Behr) and Earth girl Liz (Shiri Appleby). Ending in a graduation--what else?--the last 18 episodes brought the saga to a satisfying, if too early...
...Files was really two shows. One was a sci-fi series of mysteries resolved in an hour. They were often brilliant, but for many, they simply killed time between the "mythology" episodes, which laid out the series' tantalizing story line about a government-alien conspiracy. Now 20th Century Fox has had the good sense to strip out the filler and serve up the mythology with no chaser. These two themed collections unspool ongoing plot threads from Seasons 1 through 5. If you don't know what "black oil"--a nefarious goo that may be an alien life form...
...with a flying motorcycle and a surprise-filled sequence in which the leads are hanging onto a skyscraper sign that's losing its moorings. But for all the menace of its techno-prattle, its implicit boosts for humanism and its swell production design, the picture is finally a bore. Sci-fi was more powerful when its special effects were cheap and crude, its ideas simple but potently stated. --By Richard Schickel
...call from Darryl Zanuck saying, 'Come do this movie on Monday.' So you have to do it on your own." He has already checked off teen flick (Dazed and Confused), western (The Newton Boys), romance (Before Sunrise), sequel (Before Sunset), animation (Waking Life), sci-fi (A Scanner Darkly, due in 2006), filmed play (Tape) and a kids' movie (School of Rock). If you've got a script for an Elizabethan musical, now might be the time to send it over...
Luckily, Steven Spielberg’s sparkling new version of H. G. Wells’ anti-colonialist sci-fi bonanza, “The War of the Worlds,” avoids the cliché pratfalls that have been the peril of many an ambitious epic. As he destroys Planet Earth, Spielberg spares us images of the White House splintering to pieces or blustery generals ordering tanks and fighter jets into battle; instead, we see the horrors through the eyes of Spielberg’s everyman hero, Ray Ferreira (Tom Cruise...