Top 10 Movies: Sci-Fi
The highest-graded sci-fi movies we have reviewed, best first.
InterstellarThe rare blockbuster that stakes everything on sincerity and wins.Read the review
The MatrixA philosophy seminar smuggled inside the best action design of its decade, and both halves still work.
InceptionA heist film built out of architecture, grief, and rules it never once cheats on.
The PrestigeNolan structures the film as the trick it describes, and the prestige lands every time.
Avengers: Infinity WarTen years of setup spent in one film, structured as the villain's story and ending on a loss.
V for VendettaHugo Weaving acts an entire performance through a fixed plastic grin, and it works.
2001: A Space OdysseyCinema's greatest visual achievement, hung on characters deliberately drained of personality.
A Clockwork OrangeAn invented slang, a monstrous narrator you follow anyway, and a director who withdrew his own film.
Captain America: The Winter SoldierA paranoid seventies conspiracy thriller wearing a shield, and still the best film this studio has made.
AliensThe rare sequel that changes genre entirely and comes out with more than it started with.
