With “Downsizing,” Alexander Payne takes his compassionate social satire into a new realm -- science fiction. But the picture isn’t scary sci-fi or an action-filled adventure. It’s another of Payne’s ...

There’s no better time than now for an adaptation of Donald E. Westlake’s unsparing 1997 novel The Ax, an acutely observed book about downsizing as a form of dehumanization. The bad news is that No ...