Of all the frenzied races in Steven Spielberg’s “Ready Player One,” the closest one pits the director’s mastery against the material’s banality. By a whisker, Spielberg wins it. If you ...

Ready Player One occurs in a future where the class divide is more obvious than ever. The poor of the world, who make up the vast majority, physically exist in makeshift slums.

The America of Ernest Cline's Ready Player One is dystopian -- post-energy crisis, life is kind of a bummer -- in all but its view of virtual reality.. The VR tech in both the book and the current ...

Ready Player One review: ... “These days, reality is a bummer,” we are told as the film opens in a grim and dystopian-looking Columbus, Ohio, in the mid 2040s.

'Ready Player One' fails to do anything meaningful with the story's underlying dystopia, but it's a fun ride from the architect of the Hollywood blockbuster, Steven Spielberg.

In the future, Ready Player One will be a cautionary tale. In its chilling vision of of the year 2045, there are no new books, films, movies, poems, video games, or thoughts being had by anyone.

The Oasis — the virtual-reality universe in which much of “Ready Player One” takes place, and where the population of its dystopian world escapes from the misery of real life by donning ...

The further inclusion of “One Way or Another” by Blondie and “We’re Not Gonna Take It” by Twisted Sister truly captures the rebellious spirit of the ’80s manifest in the plot. Packed thoroughly with ...

Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One is being billed as a science fiction adventure, which makes sense. Most of it takes place in a Virtual Reality playground in which anything is possible. The ...

Steven Spielberg is back at it again with the new trailer for his forthcoming movie, Ready Player One. The film is an adaptation of Ernest Cline’s bestselling book. The storyline takes place in ...

The first book, "Ready Player One," became a hit film in 2018 and was directed by Steven Spielberg. ... 'Ready Player Two' Dives Into A Dystopian World Where Virtual Reality Is Possible ...

In the 2011 novel Ready Player One and its 2018 feature film adaptation, citizens of a dystopian world escape to a virtual universe populated by avatars and filled with games, puzzles and settings ...