This silly supernatural thriller about a fiendish shape shifter leaves coherence and clarity behind. By Erik Piepenburg Before the presidency. Before Yorktown. There was … George, the land surveyor.

New leader of the National Academy of Sciences Neil Shubin warns: ‘a society that loses science loses the future’.

The writing is “casually accomplished” and the performances are “top tier”. The best the characters can hope for, in the end, “are the compensations of enduring companionship and emotional honesty”, a ...