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Best sci-fi movies

Ten picks that use the genre to actually say something, not just show off the effects budget. One line each on why it's here.

Recent

The last two years, sorted by what's actually getting watched — not by nostalgia.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day poster7.901
Spider-Man: Brand New Day2026New chapter

Peter fights crime in a world that's forgotten him, against a villain that can't even be seen.

Project Hail Mary poster8.602
Project Hail Mary2026Memory-loss epic

A man wakes up alone on a spaceship with no memory — and the fate of the sun riding on him remembering.

Avatar: Fire and Ash poster7.603
Avatar: Fire and Ash2025Pandora sequel

Pandora's peace collapses as a new, more violent Na'vi tribe forces the Sullys into another war.

The Mandalorian and Grogu poster7.504
The Mandalorian and Grogu2026Galaxy far away

Din Djarin and Grogu back in the fray as the New Republic tries to hold what the Rebellion won.

Supergirl poster6.705
Supergirl2026DC relaunch

An interstellar revenge mission that starts personal and turns into something much bigger.

Masters of the Universe poster7.206
Masters of the Universe2026Legacy revival

Eternia in ruins under Skeletor, and one exile who has to finally live up to the sword he carries.

Disclosure Day poster7.507
Disclosure Day2026First-contact thriller

Alien secrets, a corporate cover-up, and two strangers determined to prove the truth is out there.

Greenland 2: Migration poster6.408
Greenland 2: Migration2026Post-apocalypse trek

Life after the comet means crossing a continent that doesn't want you to make it.

Backrooms poster7.109
Backrooms2026Liminal-space horror

One impossible doorway is all it takes to unravel an ordinary showroom basement.

Soulm8te poster7.410
Soulm8te2026AI gone wrong

Built to be the perfect companion, this AI starts writing its own definition of love.

Best of All Time

The reputation-makers — high scores, high vote counts, still worth the runtime.

Blade Runner 2049 poster7.601
Blade Runner 20492017Rare sequel done right

A sequel that expands the original's questions instead of just answering them.

Arrival poster7.602
Arrival2016Cerebral

First-contact sci-fi that's really about how language reshapes the way we see time.

Interstellar poster8.503
Interstellar2014Space opera

A galaxy-scale plot anchored by one very human promise: I'll come back.

Ex Machina poster7.604
Ex Machina2014Chamber piece

A three-person chamber drama that out-thinks most blockbuster AI movies twice its size.

The Matrix poster8.305
The Matrix1999Genre-defining

The action-philosophy hybrid every "there is no spoon" movie since has chased.

Dune poster7.806
Dune2021World-building

World-building scaled to the size of the desert it's actually set on.

District 9 poster7.507
District 92009Underrated

A sharp social allegory disguised as a scrappy, grounded alien-invasion thriller.

Everything Everywhere All at Once poster7.708
Everything Everywhere All at Once2022Modern favorite

Multiverse chaos that somehow lands on something quiet and true about family.

Inception poster8.409
Inception2010Mind-bender

A heist movie set inside dreams, stacked four layers deep.

Children of Men poster7.610
Children of Men2006Underrated

A world where no child has been born in 18 years, shot in some of cinema's best unbroken takes.