Released almost exactly 20 years ago, The Matrix has gone on to become a cultural phenomenon well beyond the science fiction genre. While it was generally considered science fiction at the time, it ...

The concept of “simulation theory” is not new. It’s been around since René Descartes proposed a version of it in a philosophical argument, and possibly even before then. It holds that everything ...

Building his latest documentary around impossibly big questions, a cheeky ‘90s cyber aesthetic and the words of visionary author Philip K. Dick, director Rodney Ascher explores the labyrinthine ...

In the most talked-about film from the final year of the 20th century, “The Matrix,” a computer hacker named Neo finds that the world he lives and works in isn’t real. It’s a virtual reality, created ...

What would it take to turn the entire cosmos into software-down to the rules that generate space and time? For decades, the ...

Premiering at Sundance, the new doc “A Glitch in the Matrix” examines whether we are living in a simulation controlled by an advanced society, or if it’s all in people’s heads. Entertainment Critic ...