However, not all of them have had Sarah Connor, made iconic by the actress Linda Hamilton in much the same way as Sigourney Weaver’s Alien-bashing Lieutenant Ripley. The best Terminators, James ...

Although The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgement Day rank among the best sci-fi movies of all time, the later movies in this franchise were met with mixed or outright negative critical reactions.

When I read my Variety colleague Owen Gleiberman’s review of “Terminator: Dark Fate,” in which he astutely described 1984’s “The Terminator,” the film that spawned the franchise, as “a ruthlessly ...