On one end of this journey is 18-year-old orphan Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan), who helpfully explains that his parents gave him the alliterated name “because it sounds like the alter ego of a ...

'Ready Player One' is based on a novel that fawns over 'Knight Rider', Betamax and all things '80s. But film critic Nick Schager says turning it into a blockbuster is a tall order, even for Spielberg.

At the end of Ready Player One, Wade asks Halliday if he is really dead. The version of the man seen during the final test in the Easter Egg hunt certainly seems to be fully autonomous, and this ...