Star Trek Beyond makes the 2009 Star Trek a much better film

The downside of today’s relentless review economy — the rush to cover every film and television show first and fastest — is that we’re constantly analyzing stories long before we know where they’re headed. Critics dismiss entire TV series based on the pilot. Fans turn the first issue of a comic series into a national crisis. And as our entertainment becomes more and more serialized, and we focus more and more on breaking it down into bite-sized chunks, we often miss