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From cyberpunk to monster mashes, and time-travelling head trips to space operas and beyond, here's the essential science-fiction movies to watch now! 150 Best Sci-Fi Movies of All Time –...
- Plan 9 From Outer Space
Jim M This is so bad it's good and wraps back around to bad....
- Sunshine
True science fiction- 3.8 stars Rated 3.5/5 Stars • Rated...
- Cloverfield
As a group of New Yorkers (Michael Stahl-David, Mike Vogel,...
- Them
Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 10/21/23 Full...
- Repo Man
After being fired from his job, Los Angeles slacker and punk...
- Alita: Battle Angel
Set several centuries in the future, the abandoned Alita is...
- Liquid Sky
An alien creature invades New York's punk subculture in its...
- Plan 9 From Outer Space
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) G | 149 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi. 8.3. Rate. 84 Metascore. After uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, a spacecraft is sent to Jupiter to find its origins: a spacecraft manned by two men and the supercomputer HAL 9000.
Mar 31, 2022 · There’s ‘hard sci-fi’ like The Martian, and ‘space opera’ with a helping of fantasy, like Star Wars. The sci-fi that appeals to one person won’t necessarily appeal to another. To...
- Galaxy Quest
- Wall-E
- Ex Machina
- Inception
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Robocop
- Back to The Future
- Close encounters of The Third Kind
- The Day The Earth Stood Still
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Where to Watch:Prime Video, Fubo, Paramount+ Hailed as the best "non-Star Trek" Star Trek movie, Galaxy Questis a hilarious love letter to both sci-fi fandom and iconic performers in sci-fi properties perhaps held back in their careers because of their association with said sci-fi. Starring Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, and more as the...
Where to Watch:Disney+ Finding Nemo's Andrew Stanton went from deep sea to deep space for this delightfully warped trek, seen through the eyes of a trash-bot tasked with cleaning up a centuries-later Earth smothered in garbage. Laced with satirical social commentary regarding the consequences of excess and pollution, WALL-E is a love story among th...
Where to Watch: Max Alex Garland's intimate, close-quarters sci-fi suspense piece Ex Machina centers on a lowly programmer (Domhnall Gleeson) who gets invited to the house of his CEO (Oscar Isaac) to administer the Turing test to the CEO's latest creation -- a humanoid robot (Alicia Vikander). It's an A.I. taledesigned to set you on edge and catch ...
Where to Watch: Rentable on most platforms Christopher Nolan movieswon the hearts and minds of fanboys with Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, but he truly solidified his status as a filmmaker at the top of his game with 2010's Inception. A mind-bending sci-fi stunner that proved Hollywood blockbusters could still be smart while also dazzling us on...
Where to Watch: Paramount+, Showtime apps "In another life, I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you." Our most recent entry on this list is an honest-to-goodness Best Picture winner. In fact, the multiversal madness of A24's Everything Everywhere All at Once took home seven Academy Awards, which is one of the most significan...
Where to Watch: Prime Video, Roku Channel (w/ ads), Tubi (w/ ads) "Your move... creep." In the back half of the '80s, director Paul Verhoeven not only uncorked an action classic, complete with over the top gore and an unforgettable score, but also a wry sci-fi satire of corperate grime and greed. Envisioning a bleak, practically lawless future Detr...
Where to Watch: DirecTV, Turner apps Time travel in movies wasn't uncommon before 1985's Back to the Future, but no one thought to cram a flux capacitor in the back of a DeLorean until Marty McFly and Doc Brown stepped onto the scene. This family(ish)-friendly sci-fi classic sees Michael J. Fox's Marty accidentally drive himself back to 1955. Befor...
Where to Watch: Rentable on most platforms. "This means something." Yes, yes it does, Richard Dreyfuss. His character's carving Devil's Tower a.k.a. UFO-topia and then later visiting the site where the titular close encounter occurs turns this movie into one of the few entries on this list about aliens that is more concerned with the wonder and pri...
Where to Watch: Prime Video, Fubo Forget the bland 2008 remake starring Keanu Reeves, the original 1951 version of The Day the Earth Stood Stillis the one that deserves accolades in the annals of sci-fi greatness. After all, it's the movie that inserted the phrase "Klaatu barada nikto" into the pop-culture lexicon! The Day the Earth Stood Still was...
Where to Watch: Netflix Terminator 2 is a solid example of a sequel coming along and just destroying the original in every regard. In this follow-up to the original, Skynet sends back an advanced, liquid metal-based Terminator to destroy John Connor once and for all. Connor's only hope is the T-800 -- a reprogrammed version of the same machine that...
- Blade Runner (1982) Director: Ridley Scott Starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean YoungWhat sci-fi film can best Ridley Scott's genre classic Alien?
- Alien (1979) Director: Ridley Scott Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Ian Holm, John HurtIt's fitting that, of all things, Ridley Scott's Alien feels in many ways unknowable, filled with elements that feel genuinely, well, alien.
- Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Director: Irvin Kershner Starring: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie FisherIf Star Wars gave us a whole new cinematic galaxy, Empire made that galaxy feel so much larger, deeper, and richer.
- The Matrix (1999) Director: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski Starring: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence FishburneAt the dawn of the Internet age, the Wachowskis gave Hollywood science fiction a major upgrade.
Jan 1, 2024 · From space odysseys to star wars, alien invaders to guardians of the galaxy — the best sci-fi films from the beginning of the movies until now. By Rolling Stone. January 1, 2024. Illustration by ...
1. Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) PG-13 | 192 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy. 7.6. Rate. 67 Metascore. Jake Sully lives with his newfound family formed on the extrasolar moon Pandora. Once a familiar threat returns to finish what was previously started, Jake must work with Neytiri and the army of the Na'vi race to protect their home.
