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Joshua Oppenheimer's The End is a superb musical set in the end times

In a luxury survival bunker, a rich family lie to each other as Earth's surface becomes unviable. But things change when a young woman stumbles on them in The End, a wonderful, end-of-the-world musical drama, says Simon Ings

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Indiana Jones vs Lara Croft: Ranking the best fictional archaeologists

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New Scientist recommends The Martian – sci-fi fun for all the family

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Robert Pattinson shines in clunky sci-fi adaptation Mickey 17

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Terrific drama shows the battle for girls' education in Afghanistan

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Robot Iris turns out to be a straw man in horror-comedy Companion

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Severance is still the most thoughtful, complex show on television

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New Scientist recommends Spike Jonze’s eerily prescient 2013 film Her

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New Tom Hanks film fails to wow despite the cutting-edge tech

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New Scientist recommends artist Philippe Parreno’s new work, Voices

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The best science fiction films of 2024

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New Scientist recommends cooperative board game Sammu-ramat

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Media portrayals peddle a dangerous fiction about substance misuse

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An unusual documentary follows a simulated attempted coup in the US

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