35 Best Science Fiction Movies Since Blade Runner

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The 35 best science-fiction movies since=C2=A0Blade Runner
Graphic: Jimmy HasseA.A. Dowd,=C2=A0Ignatiy Vishnevetsky,=C2=A0Erik Adams,=
=C2=A0William Hughes,=C2=A0Vikram Murthi,=C2=A0Gwen Ihnat,=C2=A0Danette Cha=
vez,=C2=A0Clayton Purdom,=C2=A0Sean O'Neal,=C2=A0Charles Bramesco,=C2=A0Jes=
se Hassenger,=C2=A0Alex McLevy,=C2=A0Noel Murray,=C2=A0Josh Modell,=C2=A0an=
d=C2=A0Mike D'AngeloToday 6:00amFiled to:=C2=A0BLADE RUNNER281The most wide=
ly admired science-fiction film to come out of the 1980s,=C2=A0Blade Runner=
=C2=A0reimagined the nocturnal, seductive, and pessimistic qualities of fil=
m noir and its =E2=80=9870s derivative, neo-noir, for the paranoid cityscap=
e of the future: a dark, rainy, multi-lingual Los Angeles where a detective=
 in a trench coat trails a gang of biomechanical replicants who escaped fro=
m an off-world colony. Released during a rich period for sci-fi, fantasy, a=
nd special-effects filmmaking=E2=80=94the same weekend as the sci-fi horror=
 classic=C2=A0The Thing, just two weeks after=C2=A0E.T.: The Extra-Terrestr=
ial, with=C2=A0Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan,=C2=A0Conan The Barbarian, a=
nd=C2=A0Poltergeist=C2=A0still in theaters=E2=80=94it was not initially a h=
it. But over the last 35 years and across multiple reedited re-releases,=C2=
=A0Blade Runner=C2=A0has grown exponentially in stature and influence, and =
and now looms over the genre, second only to=C2=A02001: A Space Odyssey.Wit=
h a belated sequel,=C2=A0Blade Runner 2049, opening in theaters this Friday=
, we at=C2=A0The A.V. Club=C2=A0couldn=E2=80=99t help but ask: What are the=
 best sci-fi movies to come out since the original theatrical release of Ri=
dley Scott=E2=80=99s masterpiece? Of course, some parameters had to be crea=
ted, because the question of what=C2=A0is=C2=A0and=C2=A0isn=E2=80=99t=C2=A0=
sci-fi can become very tricky. Some movies are grandfathered in by venerabl=
e sci-fi tropes like time machines, space travel, artificial intelligence, =
dystopian societies, or extraterrestrial and extra-dimensional life. But is=
 a story that revolves around pseudo-scientific gobbledygook any different =
from a story about magic? And why not include superhero movies, which more =
often than not involve sci-fi elements?One possible definition of sci-fi in=
volves questions posed in the terms of a futurological imagination: technol=
ogies that haven=E2=80=99t yet been invented, worlds that haven=E2=80=99t y=
et come to be, places that haven=E2=80=99t yet been discovered. Most fantas=
y or superhero narratives ask us to accept their realities, while sci-fi fi=
lms more often than not beg us to question theirs, even if the characters d=
on=E2=80=99t. Perhaps that=E2=80=99s why there=E2=80=99s such a current of =
paranoia running through the genre, such an obsession with secrets: referen=
ces hidden in the production design, subtexts, ambiguous endings. Whether t=
he world of a sci-fi film is a decadent distant future where eugenics, drug=
s, and mental conditioning have replaced computers or a garage in a present=
-day Texas suburb, it=E2=80=99s based on some kind of question, even if the=
 question is simply, =E2=80=9CIs this real?=E2=80=9DADVERTISEMENTTo put tog=
ether our list, we asked a group of=C2=A0A.V. Club=C2=A0staff members and f=
reelancers to submit ranked ballots and tallied up the votes. Any sci-fi fi=
lm released in the United States after June 25, 1982 was eligible.
35.=C2=A0Dune=C2=A0(1984)

Photo: Trailer screenshotOur list kicks off with what might be its most con=
troversial entry. The costliest and, in retrospect, unlikeliest project of =
David Lynch=E2=80=99s career, this singular space opera is set in a feudali=
stic deep future where aristocratic dynasties plot over the mind-altering r=
esources of a desert planet. Kyle MacLachlan, who would become Lynch=E2=80=
=99s iconic leading man in=C2=A0Blue Velvet=C2=A0and=C2=A0Twin Peaks, stars=
 as the heir of a noble house who leads the planet=E2=80=99s native inhabit=
ants in a rebellion, though his hero=E2=80=99s journey is lost in the film=
=E2=80=99s tapestry of conspiracies, accents, Freudian overtones, tsarist t=
rappings, and creepy drones. By turns bombastic and grotesque, campy and fa=
talistic,=C2=A0Dune=C2=A0has to be the most subconsciously strange film to =
ever try to pass itself off as special effects blockbuster=E2=80=94less an =
adaptation of Frank Herbert=E2=80=99s classic 1965 novel than an obfuscatio=
n. [Ignatiy Vishnevetsky]

34.=C2=A0Battle Royale=C2=A0(2000)


Photo: Trailer screenshotWhen=C2=A0one of dystopian literature=E2=80=99s cr=
uelest solutions to overpopulation made it to the big screen, it was condem=
ned by Japanese parliament and shunned by North American distributors. But =
whether they waited for a legal means to see the students of class 3-B pick=
 each other off one by one or risked acquiring their own explosive collar b=
y seeking out a bootleg, American audiences would learn that Kinji Fukasaku=
=E2=80=99s futuristic bloodbath lives up to its reputation. Everything feel=
s like life or death in high school, and=C2=A0Battle Royale=C2=A0inflates t=
hose feelings to allegorical proportions, a twisted test of loyalty and sur=
vival that=E2=80=99s part=C2=A0Lord Of The Flies, part=C2=A0The Most Danger=
ous Game, and part media critique =C3=A0 la=C2=A0The Running Man. Nearly im=
possible to see for more than a decade, the film still managed to influence=
 blockbuster franchises (The Hunger Games) and its fellow future midnight f=
eatures (Kill Bill), though perhaps its greatest impact is in making a crac=
kerjack sci-fi picture out of the sneaking, teenage suspicion that everythi=
ng and everyone is set against you. [Erik Adams]

33.=C2=A0Moon=C2=A0(2009)

Photo: Trailer screenshotDuncan Jones earned a richly deserved BAFTA for hi=
s 2009 debut, a throwback bit of hard sci-fi about a lone astronaut who spe=
nds his days mining the lunar surface for a massive corporation, and his ni=
ghts building models, arguing with his robot buddy (Kevin Spacey, providing=
 a 21st century, emoji-equipped answer to Hal 9000), and pining for the fam=
ily he left back on Earth. But shortly before Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is sc=
heduled to go home, an on-the-job accident permanently disrupts his monoton=
ous routine, and=C2=A0Moon=C2=A0soon finds itself spiraling into a much wei=
rder direction. Like all the best sci-fi, Jones=E2=80=99 film=C2=A0asks que=
stions that we=E2=80=99re not yet equipped to answer, the big, heady stuff =
about who we are, where we=E2=80=99re headed, and how much damage we=E2=80=
=99re going to do to ourselves along the way. It=E2=80=99s also a fantastic=
 showcase for Rockwell, who somehow manages to make driving a giant truck a=
cross the stark, gorgeous stillness of the lunar surface look like just ano=
ther boring goddamn job, while simultaneously working through the steps of =
a serious existential freak-out without ever descending into hysterics. [Wi=
lliam Hughes]

32.=C2=A0The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension=C2=A0(1=
984)

Photo: Trailer screenshotScience fiction is often rife with dense mythologi=
es, but rarely is the mythology more=C2=A0casually=C2=A0dense than in=C2=A0=
The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th=C2=A0Dimension. W.D. Richt=
er=E2=80=99s madcap debut follows the eponymous neurosurgeon/test pilot/roc=
k star (Peter Weller, cool as all hell) as he defends Earth from an inter-d=
imensional alien takeover. But the plot couldn=E2=80=99t be more beside the=
 point. Taking their cues from a variety of high/low pop culture=E2=80=94Th=
e Fantastic Four, Thomas Pynchon, Orson Welles, =E2=80=9970s kung fu, Elvis=
 Costello=E2=80=94Richter and screenwriter Earl Mac Rauch create a complex =
world and then have the confidence never to over-explain it, instead allowi=
ng viewers to comb through the thicket of gags on repeat viewings. What rea=
lly keeps them coming back is the generosity of spirit baked into everythin=
g from the performances to the intricate production design. It=E2=80=99s a =
wacky ride to nowhere and everywhere at once. [Vikram Murthi]

31.=C2=A0The Host=C2=A0(2006)

Photo: Trailer screenshotThis isn=E2=80=99t the first time=C2=A0The Host=C2=
=A0has crashed a decades-spanning=C2=A0A.V. Clublist. Two years ago, it mad=
e like a rampaging mutant river monster and plowed its way into our ranked =
rundown of the=C2=A0new millennium=E2=80=99s best horror films. Truth is, t=
his exhilarating budget blockbuster=E2=80=94Spielbergian in both its focus =
on fatherhood and its tremendous special effects=E2=80=94is no more easily =
classified than the film=E2=80=99s ferocious star attraction. The basic pre=
mise is science (runs amok) fiction: an eccentric makeover of atomic-age an=
xieties. But South Korean visionary Bong Joon-ho juggles multiple tones and=
 genres, stuffing a seriocomic family portrait down the gullet of a throwba=
ck kaiju movie, then dousing the whole thing in withering social critique. =
In other words, though=C2=A0The Host=C2=A0helped=C2=A0put Bong on his curre=
nt path to sci-fi canonization (see: two films down from here), don=E2=80=
=99t be shocked when it breaks the top 20 of next year=E2=80=99s list of, s=
ay, the best political satires since=C2=A0Being There. [A.A. Dowd]

30.=C2=A0Looper=C2=A0(2012)

Photo: Trailer screenshotWhat a masterful mindfuck of a movie. In the 2044 =
of=C2=A0Looper, time travel exists, but it=E2=80=99s mainly used by a giant=
 organized crime syndicate, which sends hit men who have outlived their use=
fulness back in time to be murdered by their younger selves. Getting your h=
ead wrapped around the premise is only half the fun of Rian Johnson=E2=80=
=99s futuristic noir, which casts Joseph Gordon-Levitt as one of these so-c=
alled Loopers, who gets into a jam when he fails to kill the 30-years-later=
 version of himself, played by Bruce Willis. There=E2=80=99s nifty weaponry=
, some unexpected location changes, age-old questions of the =E2=80=9Ccould=
 you kill baby Hitler?=E2=80=9D variety, and an opportunity for Gordon-Levi=
tt (with a small CGI assist) to do his best squinty Bruce Willis impression=
. Inventively made on a modest budget,=C2=A0Looper=C2=A0helped Johnson scor=
e a pretty plum gig; his next project is a little movie called=C2=A0The Las=
t Jedi. [Gwen Ihnat]

29.=C2=A0Snowpiercer=C2=A0(2013)

Photo: Trailer screenshotIn Bong Joon-ho=E2=80=99s=C2=A0Snowpiercer, the re=
mnants of humanity pack tightly into train cars, where =E2=80=9Cfirst-class=
 passenger=E2=80=9D has taken on a new meaning. Uprisings are a common occu=
rrence, but they=E2=80=99re brutally suppressed. Though there=E2=80=99s rea=
lly only one way out of this dystopian nightmare, there=E2=80=99s nothing s=
traightforward about Bong=E2=80=99s vision. The director of=C2=A0The Host=
=C2=A0takes a French sci-fi novel, filters it through some of the genre=E2=
=80=99s best films, including=C2=A0Aliens=C2=A0and=C2=A0Brazil, and then re=
imagines capitalism=E2=80=99s rat race as a never-ending train trek. Parall=
els are easy to drawn, but Bong and co-writer Kelly Masterson=E2=80=99s cla=
ss-warfare parable is unlike any other, in part because the character devel=
opment is as plentiful for the have-nots as it is for the haves. The result=
 is equal parts grimy fable and post-apocalyptic action movie, powered by a=
 soulful lead performance by Captain America himself, Chris Evans. [Danette=
 Chavez]

28.=C2=A0Ghost In The Shell=C2=A0(1995)

Photo: Trailer screenshotYou=E2=80=99d be forgiven for thinking that the st=
ars of=C2=A0Ghost In The Shell=C2=A0were its various lovingly animated mach=
ines: enormous mechanical firearms, boxy cars and helicopters, intricately =
locking steam-powered doors, and blinking UX displays full of hallucinatory=
 information. Its humans, meanwhile, often remain static for whole scenes, =
barely blinking; you never even see Batou=E2=80=99s eyes. Mamoru Oshii=E2=
=80=99s cyberpunk masterpiece explores a world in which the lines between h=
uman and machine are increasingly blurry, but it has a clinical, almost pro=
cedural air, with the bureaucratic intrigue and moody, neon-lit nightscapes=
 of a Michael Mann film. Thanks in part to the vast fictional universe from=
 which it hails=E2=80=94which has resulted in several excellent sequels, ga=
mes, and the rare=C2=A0CG-modified remake=C2=A0that doesn=E2=80=99t ruin ev=
erything=E2=80=94this seminal anime manages to couch its transhumanist musi=
ngs in a narrower noir narrative. In the same year that also brought sensat=
ionalist,=C2=A0instantly dated technophobe narratives=C2=A0like=C2=A0Hacker=
s,=C2=A0Johnny Mnemonic, and=C2=A0The Net,=C2=A0Ghost In The Shell=C2=A0man=
ages to render the digital infosphere at once mundane and liberating, an ag=
ent of change to be anticipated, protected, and exploited. [Clayton Purdom]

27.=C2=A0Donnie Darko=C2=A0(2001)

Photo: Trailer screenshotDisregarding=C2=A0its overly explanatory director=
=E2=80=99s cut, Richard Kelly=E2=80=99s debut is less of a straight science=
-fiction film than a metaphysical meditation on teenage alienation, on that=
 feeling like neither you nor anything you do matters. In his breakout role=
, Jake Gyllenhaal uses his haunted eyes to their greatest effect as the tit=
ular troubled kid, living in an anonymous late =E2=80=9980s suburb, where h=
e=E2=80=99s plagued by nightmarish visions of a man in a rabbit costume, om=
inously counting down to the apocalypse. Kelly=E2=80=99s film creates a sus=
tained mood of dreamy portent, full of Lynchian surreality, eerily calm sil=
ences, and some of the best use of gloomy new-wave ever committed to cellul=
oid. But=C2=A0Donnie Darko=C2=A0also leavens these with moments of absurdis=
t black comedy (never doubt his commitment to Sparkle Motion) as well as a =
surprisingly moving story about a family trying to cope with mental illness=
. It=E2=80=99s a uniquely soulful work, one that just happens to involve wo=
rmholes and demon bunnies. [Sean O=E2=80=99Neal]

26.=C2=A0The Terminator=C2=A0(1984)

Photo: ScreenshotThe brilliant low-budget sci-fi action flick that launched=
 James Cameron=E2=80=99s career begins its mirror dance of destruction and =
destiny with a tank-bot crushing human skulls in a post-apocalyptic wastela=
nd and two nude figures materializing from blobs of animated lighting in mi=
d-1980s Los Angeles. One is a human soldier (Michael Biehn) thrown back in =
time to protect a diner waitress named Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), the o=
ther an unstoppable machine (Arnold Schwarzenegger) sent to kill her; their=
 paths will eventually cross on a dance floor. A breathlessly efficient B-m=
ovie of choreographed momentum and comic-book-panel compositions,=C2=A0The =
Terminator=C2=A0showed sci-fi could be as brutal and lean as the starkest p=
ulp; Schwarzenegger=E2=80=99s angular physique would never be put to more p=
erfect use. [Ignatiy Vishnevetsky]
25.=C2=A0They Live=C2=A0(1988)

Photo: Sunset Boulevard/Corbis/GettyJohn Carpenter=E2=80=99s 1988 cult clas=
sic isn=E2=80=99t subtle about its anti-capitalist message, bluntly emblazo=
ning it across the =E2=80=9COBEY=E2=80=9D billboards that only its special =
sunglasses-wearing hero can see. Still, the fact that=C2=A0even idiot neo-N=
azis seem to believe the film is really about the Jews=C2=A0just speaks to =
how deftly=C2=A0They Live=C2=A0resonates with everyone=E2=80=99s inner cons=
piracist, where we=E2=80=99re secretly convinced that we=E2=80=99re at the =
mercy of powerful forces beyond our control. In the case of =E2=80=9CRowdy=
=E2=80=9D Roddy Piper=E2=80=99s construction worker, those forces are actua=
l aliens living among us who use subliminal advertising to keep the populac=
e living as docile, conformist consumers. It=E2=80=99s a simple premise=E2=
=80=94Orwell meets=C2=A0AdBusters=C2=A0meets your freshman year of college=
=E2=80=94but Carpenter turns that anti-yuppie screed into the kind of fun, =
satirical romp where Piper and Keith David can just=C2=A0wrestle in an alle=
y for five straight minutes. And he gives it such lasting iconography, it=
=E2=80=99s still being referenced (and misinterpreted) 30 years later. [Sea=
n O=E2=80=99Neal]

24.=C2=A0Inception=C2=A0(2010)

Photo: Trailer screenshotThe most important technology in=C2=A0Inception=C2=
=A0isn=E2=80=99t the largely unseen dream-invading machine that drives the =
plot, the numerous clocks Christopher Nolan focuses on lovingly, or even th=
at infamous top. It=E2=80=99s something much older and more sacred: the lab=
yrinth, particularly of the unsolvable, Borgesian sort, which reconfigures =
itself at every turn and reveals ever-expanding mazes within mazes. Designi=
ng one is Ariadne=E2=80=99s first challenge upon joining the team=E2=80=94a=
n introduction that, once the film=E2=80=99s game-like mechanics are establ=
ished, proves increasingly fitting as each character=E2=80=99s psyche is re=
vealed to be a series of logical puzzles. The competing wills of a dying sc=
ion, the careful set-up that leaves DiCaprio=E2=80=99s Cobb framed, the lay=
ered deceits that make Cillian Murphy=E2=80=99s Robert Fischer comply with =
the team raiding his mind: Nolan literalizes these as three-dimensional spa=
ce, staging them as crumbling modernist nowheres, secret air ducts infiltra=
ting a snowbound fortress, a train barreling through a rainy city street. H=
ow strange and beautiful that all of these serpentine mechanisms reveal at =
last Nolan=E2=80=99s most personal film: a harrowing chess match between lo=
vers, the final resolution of which makes that still-spinning top irrelevan=
t. Cobb finds his way out of one maze, and stops wondering if he=E2=80=99s =
in another, which is about as idealistic a resolution as any restless creat=
ive mind could dream. [Clayton Purdom]

23.=C2=A0Edge Of Tomorrow=C2=A0(2014)

Photo: Trailer screenshotCall it=C2=A0Edge Of Tomorrow, or=C2=A0Live Die Re=
peat, or=E2=80=94to repurpose the hilarious title of its manga source mater=
ial=E2=80=94All You Need Is Kill. Under any name, Doug Liman=E2=80=99s fien=
dishly clever almost-hit already feels like a new classic of the genre, one=
 that can be comfortably re-watched about as many times as its main charact=
er croaks. Drafted into the real-life game of=C2=A0Space Invaders=C2=A0that=
 he thoughtlessly propagandizes, Tom Cruise=E2=80=99s slimy military spokes=
man promptly dies on the battlefield, only to continuously re-spawn, trappe=
d in a loop of his final hours. Like Bill Murray in=C2=A0Groundhog Day, he =
becomes a better man (and in this case, a better soldier) through repetitio=
n, while also falling in love with the badass comrade (Emily Blunt, going f=
ull Sigourney) who forgets him after each reset. The true gallows-humor gen=
ius of=C2=A0Edge Of Tomorrow=C2=A0is how it plays with the audience=E2=80=
=99s love/hate feelings toward Cruise himself. We get to have our cake and =
eat it, too: basking in the aging actor=E2=80=99s still-formidable star pow=
er, while also taking a perverse pleasure in seeing him bite it over and ov=
er and over again for our amusement. [A.A. Dowd]

22.=C2=A0Upstream Color=C2=A0(2013)

Photo: Trailer screenshotWriggling larvae, blue-tipped orchids, fatted sows=
, a couple with a bond on the molecular level: Director, writer, producer, =
star, editor, cinematographer, soundtrack composer, and presumptive orange =
slice-bringer Shane Carruth takes far more interest in rendering the pieces=
 of this vivid puzzle with stunning clarity than fitting them together for =
us. The audience instead processes this enigma on experiential, even spirit=
ual terms. (Terrence Malick has been widely over-compared as of late, but i=
f the Texan heritage and fluid long takes of elemental forces fit=E2=80=A6)=
 And while Carruth has rightly drawn praise for his quixotic impulse to do =
it all, his collaborators brought a lot to the table as well; costar Amy Se=
imetz sprints the entire emotional gamut, and coeditor David Lowery=E2=80=
=99s fairy dust has been sprinkled all over the final cut. But it=E2=80=99s=
 Carruth who has the direct link to the primal energy source=E2=80=94a fuel=
 glacial or volcanic=E2=80=94that powers this frugal mindblower. [Charles B=
ramesco]

21.=C2=A0Jurassic Park=C2=A0(1993)

Photo: Universal/GettyOne of the most rousing (and financially successful) =
blockbusters of the 1990s plunks three scientists and a couple of pesky kid=
s in a theme park where cloned dinosaurs have been let loose in a perfect s=
torm of hubris and greed. It=E2=80=99s not exactly profound stuff, though D=
avid Koepp=E2=80=99s script hides layers of irony and self-reflection. Dire=
ctor Steven Spielberg=E2=80=99s mastery of special effects has rarely been =
more seamless (or necessary) than in this blockbuster about the blockbuster=
 era; the moral is that the wonders of technology are best handled with car=
e, and it=E2=80=99s=C2=A0buried in the filmmaking itself. The park=E2=80=99=
s tycoon master, a more sympathetic character than in Michael Crichton=E2=
=80=99s bestselling novel, watches on as his technical marvels of childlike=
 wonder begin tearing his audience to shreds. Yet=C2=A0Jurassic Park=C2=A0i=
s, above all, tremendously fun, from the John Williams score to, yes, the c=
homping T-Rex. It=E2=80=99s the first of three Spielberg movies to make our=
 list. [Ignatiy Vishnevetsky]

20.=C2=A0RoboCop=C2=A0(1987)

Photo: Orion Pictures Corporation/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis/GettyFrom the cit=
y that put America on wheels, then automated itself out of work, comes the =
future of law enforcement: a tragic hero whose resurrection and redemption =
are encased in Detroit steel. The cyberpunk saga of Officer Alex Murphy, Om=
ni Consumer Products, and Delta City makes for the smartest stupid movie of=
 the 1980s, all the big ideas rattling beneath its chassis contributing to =
a deafening din of glib commercials, T&A sitcoms, and nonstop gunfire. It=
=E2=80=99s a warning shot about American greed and violent cowboy justice t=
hat could only come from an outsider like Paul Verhoeven, whose near-future=
 Motor City exposed the polluted, putrid soul of Ronald Reagan=E2=80=99s Un=
ited States, then launched a goddamn franchise out of the toxic waste.=C2=
=A0RoboCop=C2=A0incriminates while it absolves: The satirical spikes and em=
inently quotable script=E2=80=94=E2=80=9CI fuckin=E2=80=99 love that guy,=
=E2=80=9D =E2=80=9CCan you fly, Bobby?=E2=80=9D, =E2=80=9CI=E2=80=99d buy t=
hat for a dollar!=E2=80=9D=E2=80=94can=E2=80=99t be separated from the extr=
eme bloodlust. Dead or alive, you=E2=80=99re coming with=C2=A0RoboCop. [Eri=
k Adams]

19.=C2=A0Videodrome=C2=A0(1983)

Photo: A Planfilm International II/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis/GettyEarly on in=
=C2=A0Videodrome, Max Renn (James Woods) receives a warning to stay away fr=
om the mysterious snuff porn he=E2=80=99s stumbled upon. =E2=80=9CIt has so=
mething that you don=E2=80=99t have, Max,=E2=80=9D he=E2=80=99s told. =E2=
=80=9CIt has a philosophy. And that is what makes it dangerous.=E2=80=9D Wh=
at follows is David Cronenberg=E2=80=99s feverish thesis statement, not jus=
t because Renn ignores the warning, unlocking a portal to psychosexual tran=
sgression and physical transformation, but because it=E2=80=99s filmed and =
presented impassively, uneasily leaving the viewer to determine what that p=
hilosophy is and why we should fear it.=C2=A0Videodrome=C2=A0presents a =E2=
=80=9Cbattle for the mind of North America=E2=80=9D fought through screens,=
 its antagonist a hungry corporation looking to control America=E2=80=99s e=
yes for corporate gain as well as some other, more eschatological end. In a=
n era of reality-TV politics, carefully constructed and monetized digital a=
vatars, and constant surveillance and broadcasting, it=E2=80=99s easy to th=
ink that we lost this battle. But Cronenberg=E2=80=99s concerns are less di=
dactic, tracing instead Renn=E2=80=99s metamorphosis from opportunistic nih=
ilist (=E2=80=9Cthe world=E2=80=99s a shithole, ain=E2=80=99t it?=E2=80=9D)=
 to free-roaming agent of anarchy. Its only concern is to normalize the rel=
igion of the new flesh, its violence a capsule that helps install the philo=
sophy deeper in the brain. This very nebulousness is what makes=C2=A0Videod=
rome=C2=A0still so resonant, and indeed so dangerous on its own. Like Renn,=
 we watch on despite these warnings, the screen flickering too seductively =
to turn away. [Clayton Purdom]

18.=C2=A0Terminator 2: Judgment Day=C2=A0(1991)

Photo: Trailer screenshotNo, it=E2=80=99s not as primal and gritty, as effi=
ciently=C2=A0cool, as its low-budget predecessor. How could it be, with Jam=
es Cameron reprogramming one of the most terrifying villains in movie histo=
ry=E2=80=94Arnold Schwarzenegger=E2=80=99s literal killing machine=E2=80=94=
into a catchphrase-spouting bodyguard? With=C2=A0T2, fans had to settle for=
 something different: the platonic ideal of summer blockbusters, a peerless=
 big-budget entertainment with brains, brawn, and soul to spare. Cameron br=
oke the bank on the set-pieces, which seamlessly blend muscular practical a=
ction with early but still-remarkable CGI, most notably in the deadly metal=
lic-goo wizardry of Robert Patrick=E2=80=99s amorphous T-1000. But he also =
expanded upon the original=E2=80=99s open questions of fate and destiny, an=
d located a strange new poignancy in a not-quite-nuclear family (mother, ch=
ild, time-traveling mechanical father) attempting to stave off nuclear anni=
hilation. By the film=E2=80=99s closing act of sacrifice, less guarded view=
ers may struggle to hold back the tears the T-800 could never cry. Cornball=
 catharsis may be an odd substitute for relentless menace, but shouldn=E2=
=80=99t every sequel plot a new future instead of getting stuck in the fran=
chise past? [A.A. Dowd]

17.=C2=A0Starship Troopers=C2=A0(1997)


Photo: Trailer screenshotTime has been kind to=C2=A0Starship Troopers, just=
 as=C2=A0Starship Troopers=C2=A0has been very unkind to our time. These day=
s, the tongue-in-cheek politics of the film=E2=80=94a bunch of kids from a =
futuristically Caucasian version of Buenos Aires enthusiastically head into=
 a slaughterous battle against giant alien bugs who may not have intentiona=
lly instigated any conflict=E2=80=94veer from darkly funny to plainly chill=
ing. Look no further than the late-movie sight of then-fresh-faced Neil Pat=
rick Harris done up in Third Reich-style duds=E2=80=94a total Paul Verhoeve=
n move that no longer feels as out-there as it did during its initial relea=
se. Of course, plenty of 1997 audiences, and even critics, took the movie a=
t face-value (=E2=80=9CMelrose Space=E2=80=9D was a common crack at the mov=
ie=E2=80=99s overscrubbed cast of bland normies, plus Jake Busey). The dirt=
y secret of=C2=A0Starship Troopers=C2=A0is that plenty of it=C2=A0does=C2=
=A0work on a surface level: if not as a feat of ensemble acting, certainly =
as an intensely gory and quotable=C2=A0Aliens=C2=A0riff (plus Jake Busey). =
The gnashing war-movie sensations fuel the satire, and vice versa. [Jesse H=
assenger]

16.=C2=A0Minority Report=C2=A0(2002)

Photo: 20th Century-Fox/GettyHollywood=E2=80=99s love affair with Philip K.=
 Dick began with=C2=A0Blade Runner, but it didn=E2=80=99t end there; the 35=
 years that separate the original from this week=E2=80=99s belated sequel a=
re dotted with adaptations of the sci-fi author=E2=80=99s brain-bending wor=
k. Planted at the nexus of thrilling and thought-provoking,=C2=A0Minority R=
eport=C2=A0towers over most of them. Like=C2=A0Blade Runner, it=E2=80=99s a=
 heady detective yarn, set in a nightmarishly credible tomorrow when crimin=
als are arrested=C2=A0before=C2=A0they commit their crimes; Tom Cruise, in =
dashing=C2=A0Mission: Impossible=C2=A0mode, is the cop pitted against his o=
wn ethically suspect methodology, running from the law and a possibly foreg=
one conclusion, otherwise known as fate. The middle chapter in Steven Spiel=
berg=E2=80=99s unofficial, early-2000s sci-fi trilogy,=C2=A0Minority Report=
reconfigures Dick=E2=80=99s source material into a breathless chase picture=
, allowing for some of the coolest set-pieces of the director=E2=80=99s car=
eer, but also for the construction of a future so technologically plausible=
 that it=E2=80=99s=C2=A0already coming true. Even the rosy Spielbergian ups=
hot can=E2=80=99t kill the suggestion that we=E2=80=99re seeing a troubling=
 premonition of now: Today, as in=C2=A0Minority Report, what you only=C2=A0=
might=C2=A0do could get you arrested or worse. [A.A. Dowd]

15.=C2=A0Arrival=C2=A0(2016)


The fact that it=E2=80=99s been less than a year since it hit theaters may =
account for this weighty sorta-thriller landing outside of the top 10: Ther=
e=E2=80=99s a good chance that=C2=A0Arrival=C2=A0could go toe-to-toe with s=
ome of the best science fiction ever once some real time has passed. Workin=
g from a novella by Ted Chiang,=C2=A0Blade Runner 2049=C2=A0director Denis =
Villeneuve retells the familiar story of an alien appearance here on earth,=
 only with the far more plausible premise that these strange creatures woul=
d have no fucking clue how to talk to us. Bolstered by uniformly strong per=
formances (Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner do some of their best work here),=C2=
=A0Arrivaltackles a tired subject in a fresh way, emphasizing the need for =
communication above all else. It suggests that taking the time to be respec=
tful of one another, and clearly convey our thoughts and feelings, might li=
terally be the most important thing on Earth (or other planets), and that=
=E2=80=99s a message that deserves to resonate with any generation. [Alex M=
cLevy]

14.=C2=A0The Fly=C2=A0(1986)

Photo: 20th Century-Fox/GettyIn the annals of mad science, has a god-playin=
g genius ever regretted his own hubris more than Seth Brundle regrets his? =
Suffering a mishap with his homemade teleportation device, Brundle accident=
ally merges his DNA with that of a common housefly, and the day-by-day resu=
lts aren=E2=80=99t pretty. Of course, there=E2=80=99s much more than a fear=
 of unchecked ambition to be gleaned from David Cronenberg=E2=80=99s stomac=
h-churning, heartbreaking remake of a =E2=80=9950s schlock staple. Whether =
viewed as an early AIDS allegory, a cautionary tale about drug abuse, or so=
me combination of both,=C2=A0The Flycreates goopy, grand entertainment from=
 one of life=E2=80=99s worst ordeals: helplessly watching as a loved one wa=
stes away. Geena Davis, in a star-is-born performance, makes that horror pa=
lpable, while Jeff Goldblum, emoting fiercely under pounds of amazing prost=
hetics, plugs the audience into this crucible of mind-and-body deterioratio=
n, infecting us with his fear and disgust and scientific wonder. He=E2=80=
=99s Frankenstein and the monster rolled into one: a BrundleFly of mankind=
=E2=80=99s defiance of limits and the sometimes-gruesome consequences of th=
e same. [A.A. Dowd]

13.=C2=A0Under The Skin=C2=A0(2013)

Photo: Lionsgate=E2=80=9CSpecies=C2=A0meets=C2=A0Morvern Callar=E2=80=9D ma=
y sound like an odd mix, but writer-director Jonathan Glazer=E2=80=99s adap=
tation of a Michel Faber novel makes that combo work. Scarlett Johansson gi=
ves one of the best performances of her career as a creature who seduces an=
d consumes lonely men, in docu-realistic footage shot on the sly in nondesc=
ript Scottish cities and villages. Every now and then, Glazer strands the a=
udience in the heroine=E2=80=99s spooky extra-dimensional lair, which looks=
 like a pool of inky black, dotted with abstract gray blobs.=C2=A0Under The=
 Skin=C2=A0is an arty spin on a cheesy B-movie premise, allowing audiences =
to experience both the mundanity of our world and the forbidding darkness o=
f an alien realm through non-human eyes. It=E2=80=99s as mesmerizing as it =
is disorienting. [Noel Murray]

12.=C2=A0Her=C2=A0(2013)

Photo: Trailer screenshotSpike Jonze=E2=80=99s Academy Award-winning foray =
into full-scale sci-fi is a contemplation of timeless emotions and modern t=
echnology, anchored by two of our greatest living movie stars=E2=80=94one o=
f whom is also today=E2=80=99s versatile genre-film personality (see above)=
. And Scarlett Johansson doesn=E2=80=99t even appear onscreen in=C2=A0Her: =
She=E2=80=99s the ghost in Joaquin Phoenix=E2=80=99s machines, the increasi=
ngly sentient OS providing companionship to a divorc=C3=A9 who spends his d=
ays conjuring feelings for total strangers. It=E2=80=99s dystopian in premi=
se yet utopian in outlook, its simultaneous awakenings set against the back=
drops of a globalized L.A., a wordless Arcade Fire record, and cinematograp=
hy that starts out fixated on Phoenix but gradually expands its scope as he=
 starts seeing beyond himself. In some ways, it=E2=80=99s the anti-Blade Ru=
nner, the congestion and techno-paranoia of Ridley Scott=E2=80=99s classic =
flipped to find a protagonist in retro-futurist fashions who=E2=80=99s neve=
r in doubt of his humanity, living in harmony with a female AI discovering =
(and transcending) her own. [Erik Adams]

11.=C2=A012 Monkeys=C2=A0(1995)

Photo: ScreenshotTerry Gilliam=E2=80=99s era-traversing thriller has all th=
e elements of a science-fiction slam dunk: time travel, a dystopian future,=
 a killer virus, Bruce Willis. As post-apocalyptic convict James Cole, Will=
is travels from a very Gilliam-esque steampunk bunker in the near future to=
 try and figure out the origin of the disease that nearly destroyed humanit=
y. His trip goes sideways, naturally, as he meets a skeptical scientist (Ma=
deleine Stowe) who later becomes his kidnappee, then his Stockholm syndrome=
 ally, and a mental patient (Brad Pitt, in his first Oscar-nominated role) =
who leads the story in new directions. But it=E2=80=99s=C2=A012 Monkeys=E2=
=80=99 twisty narrative=E2=80=94inspired by Chris Marker=E2=80=99s short-fo=
rm stunner =E2=80=9CLa Jetee=E2=80=9D=E2=80=94that makes=C2=A012 Monkeysa c=
lassic. Gilliam=E2=80=99s version was written, perhaps not coincidentally, =
by Janet and David Peoples, the latter of whom penned the masterpiece that =
inspired this very list. [Josh Modell]

10.=C2=A0A.I. Artificial Intelligence=C2=A0(2001)

Photo: Trailer screenshotSteven Spielberg=E2=80=99s thoughtful and profound=
ly sad fairytale about a childlike android (Haley Joel Osment) who wants to=
 become a real boy is about as dark as a special effects fantasy can get wi=
thout betraying its core principle of wonder. Programmed to yearn for his a=
dopted human mother=E2=80=99s love, little David travels through the garish=
 neon metropolises, drowned downtowns, and robot demolition derbies of the =
future in search of Pinocchio=E2=80=99s Blue Fairy, accompanied by a fugiti=
ve sex-borg (a pitch-perfect Jude Law) and a super-intelligent teddy bear. =
Stanley Kubrick originally developed the project, but=C2=A0A.I. is a movie =
that only Spielberg could create. (It=E2=80=99s also one of only two script=
s that he=E2=80=99s written for himself to direct; the other is=C2=A0Close =
Encounters Of The Third Kind.) The most delicate of sci-fi masterpieces, it=
 concerns itself with the world we leave behind, discovering humanity in ou=
r last traces; the deeply moving ending is its own Voight-Kampff test. [Ign=
atiy Vishnevetsky]

9.=C2=A0Mad Max: Fury Road=C2=A0(2015)

Photo: Trailer screenshotGeorge Miller=E2=80=99s feature-length chase scene=
 (give or take a couple of rest stops) envisions the fluid, mythical post-a=
pocalyptic setting of the anthology-like=C2=A0Mad Max=C2=A0series as a wast=
eland ruled by humanity=E2=80=99s earliest wrongs. Reimagined as a traumati=
zed veteran, Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy, taking over the role previously pl=
ayed by Mel Gibson) becomes the reluctant ally of the one-armed truck pilot=
 Furiosa (Charlize Theron) as she leads a harem of young beauties to a half=
-remembered society of women, pursued by the patriarchal death cult of Immo=
rtan Joe and his War Boys. The metal-twisting, pyrotechnic vehicular carnag=
e is consistently exhilarating=E2=80=94=E2=80=9Cpure=E2=80=9D action at its=
 most gloriously over-the-top. But the thrill of escape takes on a differen=
t meaning here; while science fiction traditionally looks to the future,=C2=
=A0Fury Road=C2=A0is all about the eternal past, racing to catch up in the =
rear-view mirror. [Ignatiy Vishnevetsky]

8.=C2=A0Primer=C2=A0(2004)

Photo: Trailer screenshotOpinions of Shane Carruth=E2=80=99s no-budget debu=
t (which unexpectedly won the dramatic prize at Sundance) tend to be sharpl=
y divided, depending upon whether one finds its recursive narrative challen=
ging or simply impenetrable. There=E2=80=99s certainly no denying that it p=
uts the =E2=80=9Cscience=E2=80=9D in science fiction.=C2=A0Primer=E2=80=99s=
 dual protagonists, Aaron (Carruth) and Abe (David Sullivan), are engineers=
, and they=C2=A0talk=C2=A0like engineers, without bothering to explain them=
selves for an audience of laymen; the film=E2=80=99s dialogue is a torrent =
of jargon, meant to be experienced as a disorienting whole rather than proc=
essed line by line. Equally cryptic are the characters=E2=80=99 motivations=
, about which Carruth provides only hints. All that can be stated with conf=
idence is that Aaron and Abe, while working on a side project in Aaron=E2=
=80=99s garage, accidentally invent a limited form of time travel into the =
past, and that a combination of ego and paranoia leads to multiple versions=
 of both men existing simultaneously. Fans have created elaborate, brain-nu=
mbing diagrams that attempt to work out exactly what happens, but the film=
=E2=80=99s genius lies in its cerebral embrace of uncertainty, along with C=
arruth=E2=80=99s precise visual sense and his almost quixotic faith in the =
viewer to keep up. [Mike D=E2=80=99Angelo]

7.=C2=A0WALL-E=C2=A0(2008)


Photo: Trailer screenshotLet=E2=80=99s talk about the opening stretch of=C2=
=A0WALL-E, in which the exacting geniuses at Pixar introduce their bleak pr=
emise: In the far-flung (but perhaps not quite distant) future, a garbage-s=
aturated Earth is no longer inhabited by humans=E2=80=94just a single trash=
-collecting robot chipping away at endless, impossible clean-up duty with a=
 side of slapstick misadventures. In mere minutes, the movie establishes a =
chilling vision of our planet=E2=80=99s future, and does so in silent-comed=
y language that barely-verbal children might still understand. But let=E2=
=80=99s also talk about the rest of=C2=A0WALL-E, the part of the movie some=
times unfairly maligned as a comedown from that magnificent opening. Once W=
ALL-E winds up on the=C2=A0Axiom, a massive spaceship on an endless cruise,=
 the movie deepens its critique of consumerism run amok via devolved, blobb=
ed-out humans no longer programmed to think or even walk for themselves. At=
 the same time, it finds gentle poetry in a romance of sorts between two ma=
chines who may be cute but are never cheaply humanoid. Pixar may attempt to=
 solve humanity=E2=80=99s problems with a series of elaborate action sequen=
ces, but when this involves the best robot chases this side of a=C2=A0Termi=
natormovie, it=E2=80=99s hard to complain. The opening creates a world, but=
 the whole movie tells a story. [Jesse Hassenger]

6.=C2=A0Children Of Men=C2=A0(2006)

Photo: Trailer screenshotPerhaps more than any other year in recent memory,=
 2017 has inspired constant talk of the most pertinent or prescient dystopi=
an visions. Alfonso Cuar=C3=B3n=E2=80=99s=C2=A0Children Of Men=C2=A0might b=
e the film to beat among those contenders, tapping into current debates on =
refugees, immigration, and even reproductive rights. But the movie is more =
than the sum of its political parts. Adapted from a novel by P.D. James, it=
 presents a harsh vision of the future, when human civilization is basicall=
y in its death throes=E2=80=94and that=E2=80=99s just in the first few minu=
tes. From there, Clive Owen=E2=80=99s Theo must find a way to shepherd the =
first pregnant woman in years across a war-torn England, evading factions w=
ho would use her unborn child to further their own agendas. Owen, Julianne =
Moore, and Michael Caine all deliver gut-wrenching performances, and the us=
e of elaborate, unbroken long takes develops a cinematic language as powerf=
ul as its emotional one. [Danette Chavez]

5.=C2=A0Back To The Future=C2=A0(1985)

Photo: Universal/GettyThe science is shaky=E2=80=94a plutonium-fueled DeLor=
ean defies quantum physics to travel back in time, paying blithe lip servic=
e to the many paradoxes it creates=E2=80=94and its fantastical premise is r=
eally just the contrivance for a sweet culture-clash comedy about an 1980s =
teen who meets (and tries not to sleep with) his 1950s parents. Yet for all=
 its long-debated =E2=80=9Chard sci-fi=E2=80=9D flaws, Robert Zemeckis=E2=
=80=99=C2=A0Back To The Future=C2=A0remains our most beloved modern time-tr=
avel story, as responsible as Doc Brown=E2=80=99s heroes Jules Verne and H.=
G. Wells for popularizing the basic concepts and causalities of messing aro=
und with our destinies. Meanwhile, its sequel continues to be the most wide=
ly referenced vision of our (now passed) future, as the annual deluge of ho=
verboard articles attests. All told,=C2=A0Back To The Future=E2=80=99s mass=
ive, crossover success performed the equally improbable feat of making scie=
nce fiction broadly appealing, every bit as cool to the kids as Huey Lewis.=
 [Sean O=E2=80=99Neal]

4.=C2=A0Aliens=C2=A0(1986)

Photo: Stanley Bielecki Movie Collection/GettyIf there=E2=80=99s a glimmer =
of hope that James Cameron won=E2=80=99t be wasting his talent with four mo=
re rounds of=C2=A0Avatar, it lies in the knowledge that this maestro of blo=
ckbusters is also, generally speaking, a master of sequels. The director kn=
ew how to expand his stone-cold=C2=A0Terminator=C2=A0into an awesome multip=
lex epic. Before that, he achieved the even more daunting feat of pulling a=
 new sci-fi classic out of the shadow of an old one. Rather than try to rep=
licate the glacial deep-space dread of a Ridley Scott movie arguably even b=
etter than=C2=A0Blade Runner,=C2=A0Aliens=C2=A0stomps on the gas, stranding=
 an unfrozen Ripley (tough-as-nails Sigourney Weaver) on an outpost crawlin=
g with acid-bleeding creatures, alongside a platoon of over-armed but sever=
ely underprepared space marines. Few action or war movies released in the d=
ecades since can match=C2=A0Aliens=C2=A0for sheer adrenaline-junkie intensi=
ty, but there=E2=80=99s something affecting about its emotional arc, too=E2=
=80=94about the way Cameron turns the d=C3=A9j=C3=A0 vu storytelling logic =
of sequels into warped immersion therapy, allowing Ripley to overcome the t=
rauma of=C2=A0Alien=C2=A0(and the loss of her daughter) by rushing back int=
o the monster-blasting fray. It=E2=80=99s not a redo. It=E2=80=99s a rebirt=
h, bursting bloody and triumphant from the cold body of a perfect genre spe=
cimen. [A.A. Dowd]

3.=C2=A0Brazil=C2=A0(1985)

Photo: Embassy International Pictures/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis/GettyTerry Gi=
lliam=E2=80=99s dystopian vision, which he considered titling=C2=A01984=C2=
=BD, so confounded Universal Pictures that it nearly wound up being shelved=
; only after the Los Angeles Film Critics Association named=C2=A0Brazil=C2=
=A0the year=E2=80=99s best film=E2=80=94based on secret, unauthorized scree=
nings=E2=80=94did the studio finally relent and release it. Despite clear O=
rwellian parallels, they=E2=80=99d somehow expected something more conventi=
onally heroic from this tale of a Walter Mitty-ish bureaucrat (Jonathan Pry=
ce) who fantasizes about rebelling against the totalitarian system he helps=
 to administer. Gilliam instead delivered a merrily bleak portrait of amora=
l dysfunction, mixing absurdist comedy with nightmarish imagery in truly un=
settling ways. Nor does=C2=A0Brazil=C2=A0offer an escape by way of pure spe=
ctacle=E2=80=94while the conception of its alternate world is visually asto=
nishing (especially for its relatively low budget), Gilliam shrewdly challe=
nges sci-fi orthodoxy by rooting extrapolations of the future in antiquated=
 aspects of the past. Even the title, which refers to a popular romantic so=
ng written in 1939, seems designed to foster cognitive dissonance. The resu=
lt is a movie so recklessly singular that it came dangerously close to neve=
r being seen in its intended form. [Mike D=E2=80=99Angelo]

2.=C2=A0The Matrix=C2=A0(1999)

Photo: Getty/Ronald SiemoneitA pastiche of influences and references (Hong =
Kong action,=C2=A0Alice In Wonderland, anime,=C2=A0The Wizard Of Oz, body h=
orror, etc., etc.) wrapped in greenish tints, undergrad philosophy and memo=
rable special effects, the Wachowskis=E2=80=99 breakthrough became a cultur=
al touchstone and a massive, influential box-office hit by striking an unli=
kely balance between style and substance. It seems to have something for ev=
eryone. The premise=E2=80=94reality as a simulation created by sinister mac=
hines=E2=80=94is versatile enough to fit any reading across the political s=
pectrum, but the subtexts of identity and self-discovery are deeply persona=
l. Every ambitious sci-fi film made since the 1980s is, in some elementary =
way, about the genre itself.=C2=A0The Matrix=C2=A0takes its possibilities=
=E2=80=94as gee-whiz effects spectacle, allegory, secular mind-blower, esca=
pist fantasy=E2=80=94and fashions them into a worldview. [Ignatiy Vishnevet=
sky]

1.=C2=A0Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind=C2=A0(2004)

Image: Focus FeaturesAt its best, science fiction is a mirror. It shows us =
not just other planets, other eras, and other species, but also ourselves, =
refracted through the smoke screen of impossible conceits and creative prog=
nostication. Directed by impish French daydreamer Michel Gondry, from a bri=
lliant script by the mad genius screenwriter Charlie Kaufman,=C2=A0Eternal =
Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind=C2=A0fulfills the full potential of the genre=
 as a window into human experience, all while functioning as maybe the quin=
tessentially funny-poignant love story of 21st-century cinema. Just the pre=
mise alone might have triggered all the synapses in Philip K. Dick=E2=80=99=
s noggin. On the receiving end of an especially brutal breakup, introverted=
 sadsack Joel (a perfectly cast-against-type Jim Carrey) pays a team of cer=
ebral janitors to wipe away all mental traces of the dead relationship. But=
 as memories disappear into the void, Joel has second thoughts about forget=
ting it all, and begins scrambling through his own subconscious, trying to =
hide extroverted ex Clementine (Kate Winslet, in what essentially amounts t=
o a plum dual role) in the deepest folds and recesses of his brain. Gondry =
and Kaufman turn the Lacuna, Inc. procedure into a fantastic voyage of coll=
apsing landscapes and reality-bending hallucinations; in its own in-camera,=
 lo-fi way,=C2=A0Eternal Sunshine=C2=A0is as much a special effects showcas=
e as any blockbuster on this list. What makes it our undisputed top choice =
is the way the film uses a high-concept hook for the ages to make a profoun=
d point about human nature, about our stupid, reckless, romantic willingnes=
s to endure life=E2=80=99s lows in pursuit of its highs. Working its way to=
 the=C2=A0beautifully bittersweet ending=C2=A0of the new millennium,=C2=A0E=
ternal Sunshinesuggests that time, space, and oblivion are no more mysterio=
us than our own complicated, sometimes contradictory desires. That=E2=80=99=
s a whole universe to explore. [A.A. Dowd]
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t; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_1=
6_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49435">Blade Runner</em></a><em style=3D"box-sizin=
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nal, seductive, and pessimistic qualities of film noir and its =E2=80=9870s=
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p;<a href=3D"https://film.avclub.com/e-t-the-extra-terrestrial-blu-ray-1798=
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ndering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1=
_1507160346470_49443">&nbsp;<a href=3D"https://film.avclub.com/conan-the-ba=
rbarian-conan-the-destroyer-1798169183" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" =
style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration-line:=
 none; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(227, 58, 245) 0px -2px 0px ins=
et; transition: color 0.1s ease-out;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470=
_49444">Conan The Barbarian</a></em>, and&nbsp;<a href=3D"https://film.avcl=
ub.com/poltergeist-25th-anniversary-edition-1798203255" target=3D"_blank" r=
el=3D"noopener" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-=
decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(227, 58, 245) =
0px -2px 0px inset; transition: color 0.1s ease-out;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19=
_1_1507160346470_49445"><em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: o=
ptimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_150716034=
6470_49446">Poltergeist</em></a>&nbsp;still in theaters=E2=80=94it was not =
initially a hit. But over the last 35 years and across multiple reedited re=
-releases,&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeL=
egibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_494=
47">Blade Runner</em>&nbsp;has grown exponentially in stature and influence=
, and and now looms over the genre, second only to<em style=3D"box-sizing: =
inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"y=
ui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49448">&nbsp;<a href=3D"https://film.avclub.=
com/2001-a-space-odyssey-1798221357" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" sty=
le=3D"box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration-line: no=
ne; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(227, 58, 245) 0px -2px 0px inset;=
 transition: color 0.1s ease-out;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49=
449">2001: A Space Odyssey</a></em>.</div><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit=
; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 1.=
25rem; margin-left: auto; word-break: break-word; font-size: 17px; line-hei=
ght: 32px; max-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49450">=
With a belated sequel,&nbsp;<a href=3D"https://www.avclub.com/blade-runner-=
2049-creates-gorgeously-languid-spectacle-1819003907" rel=3D"nofollow" styl=
e=3D"box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration-line: non=
e; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(227, 58, 245) 0px -2px 0px inset; =
transition: color 0.1s ease-out;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_494=
51"><em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; l=
ine-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49452">Blade Ru=
nner 2049</em></a>, opening in theaters this Friday, we at&nbsp;<em style=
=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: i=
nherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49453">The A.V. Club&nbsp;</=
em>couldn=E2=80=99t help but ask: What are the best sci-fi movies to come o=
ut since the original theatrical release of Ridley Scott=E2=80=99s masterpi=
ece? Of course, some parameters had to be created, because the question of =
what&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibil=
ity; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49454">is=
</em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optim=
izeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470=
_49455">isn=E2=80=99t</em>&nbsp;sci-fi can become very tricky. Some movies =
are grandfathered in by venerable sci-fi tropes like time machines, space t=
ravel, artificial intelligence, dystopian societies, or extraterrestrial an=
d extra-dimensional life. But is a story that revolves around pseudo-scient=
ific gobbledygook any different from a story about magic? And why not inclu=
de superhero movies, which more often than not involve sci-fi elements?</di=
v><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; ma=
rgin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-left: auto; word-break: br=
eak-word; font-size: 17px; line-height: 32px; max-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_=
3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49456">One possible definition of sci-fi involv=
es questions posed in the terms of a futurological imagination: technologie=
s that haven=E2=80=99t yet been invented, worlds that haven=E2=80=99t yet c=
ome to be, places that haven=E2=80=99t yet been discovered. Most fantasy or=
 superhero narratives ask us to accept their realities, while sci-fi films =
more often than not beg us to question theirs, even if the characters don=
=E2=80=99t. Perhaps that=E2=80=99s why there=E2=80=99s such a current of pa=
ranoia running through the genre, such an obsession with secrets: reference=
s hidden in the production design, subtexts, ambiguous endings. Whether the=
 world of a sci-fi film is a decadent distant future where eugenics, drugs,=
 and mental conditioning have replaced computers or a garage in a present-d=
ay Texas suburb, it=E2=80=99s based on some kind of question, even if the q=
uestion is simply, =E2=80=9CIs this real?=E2=80=9D</div><div style=3D"box-s=
izing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160=
346470_49457"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 1.5rem 0px; paddin=
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er; text-transform: uppercase;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49460=
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ty; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-left: auto; word-bre=
ak: break-word; font-size: 17px; line-height: 32px; max-width: 636px;" id=
=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49466">To put together our list, we ask=
ed a group of&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimi=
zeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_=
49467">A.V. Club&nbsp;</em>staff members and freelancers to submit ranked b=
allots and tallied up the votes. Any sci-fi film released in the United Sta=
tes after June 25, 1982 was eligible.</div><hr style=3D"box-sizing: inherit=
; border: 0px; clear: both; min-height: 11px; margin: 40px auto; max-width:=
 636px; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; m=
in-width: 18px; background-image: url(&quot;data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg wi=
dth=3D\&quot;18\&quot; height=3D\&quot;11\&quot; viewBox=3D\&quot;0 0 18 11=
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eak-a</title><g fill=3D\&quot;none\&quot; fill-rule=3D\&quot;evenodd\&quot;=
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8.03\&quot;/></g></svg>&quot;);" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_4946=
8"><h2 style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1rem; font-family: Pr=
oximaNovaCond, sans-serif; font-size: 1.75rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegi=
bility; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); max-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui=
_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49469"><strong style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; l=
ine-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49470">35.&nbsp=
;<a href=3D"https://film.avclub.com/the-eraserhead-baby-from-space-david-ly=
nch-made-a-weir-1798252461#_ga=3D2.13233847.1407947596.1507042467-160227058=
.1494430824" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"box-sizing: inheri=
t; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit=
; box-shadow: rgb(227, 58, 245) 0px -2px 0px inset; transition: color 0.1s =
ease-out;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49471"><em style=3D"box-si=
zing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" i=
d=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49472">Dune</em></a><em style=3D"box-s=
izing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" =
id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49473">&nbsp;</em>(1984)</strong></h2=
><figure style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; max-width: none; margin: 0px auto 1.=
5rem; clear: left;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49474"><div style=
=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; =
position: relative; max-width: 1243px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15071603464=
70_49475"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px =
470.281px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49476"><span style=3D"box=
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lear: both; display: block;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49477"><=
span style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; opac=
ity: 0; ; top: 8px; left: 8px; width: 32px; min-height: 32px; border-radius=
: 5px; cursor: pointer; transition: 0.15s; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, =
0.7); z-index: 93;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49478"><svg id=3D=
"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49479"><use xmlns:xlink=3D"http://www.w3.o=
rg/1999/xlink" xlink:href=3D"#iconset-zoom-in" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507=
160346470_49480"><svg viewBox=3D"0 0 18 18" x=3D"1" y=3D"1" width=3D"100%" =
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9.5" cy=3D"6.5" r=3D"6" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49482"></circ=
le><path d=3D"M9.5 3.5v6m-3-3h6M5 11L.5 15.5" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15071=
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g: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49484"><source data-srcs=
et=3D"https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--7aPH8pUi--/c_fit=
,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/klyy7ph7or4tebcrxdph.png" media=3D"(max-width: 5=
99px)" sizes=3D"988px" srcset=3D"https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image=
/upload/s--7aPH8pUi--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/klyy7ph7or4tebcrxdph.=
png" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_4=
9485"><source data-srcset=3D"https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upl=
oad/s--WOZoeps7--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/klyy7ph7or4tebcrxdph.pn=
g" media=3D"(max-width: 799px)" sizes=3D"988px" srcset=3D"https://i.kinja-i=
mg.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--WOZoeps7--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,=
w_800/klyy7ph7or4tebcrxdph.png" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_=
16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49486"><source data-srcset=3D"https://i.kinja-img=
.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--Dwd41dDj--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_=
1600/klyy7ph7or4tebcrxdph.png" sizes=3D"988px" srcset=3D"https://i.kinja-im=
g.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--Dwd41dDj--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w=
_1600/klyy7ph7or4tebcrxdph.png" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_=
16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49487"><img class=3D"ymail-preserve-class inline-=
image-guid-87d83025-e8ec-d93d-fdfe-10302a8f8ead rte-inline-saved-image" src=
=3D"cid:[email protected]" data-id=3D"inline-i=
mage-guid-87d83025-e8ec-d93d-fdfe-10302a8f8ead" alt=3D"Inline image" style=
=3D"width:100%;max-width:1px;max-height:1px;"><br></picture></span></div><f=
igcaption style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; position: relative; font-family: Pr=
oximaNovaCond, sans-serif; color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 15px; line=
-height: 21px; margin-top: 0.5rem;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_4=
9489">Photo: Trailer screenshot</figcaption></div></figure><div style=3D"bo=
x-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; margin-right: auto; =
margin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-left: auto; word-break: break-word; font-siz=
e: 17px; line-height: 32px; max-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507=
160346470_49490">Our list kicks off with what might be its most controversi=
al entry. The costliest and, in retrospect, unlikeliest project of David Ly=
nch=E2=80=99s career, this singular space opera is set in a feudalistic dee=
p future where aristocratic dynasties plot over the mind-altering resources=
 of a desert planet. Kyle MacLachlan, who would become Lynch=E2=80=99s icon=
ic leading man in&nbsp;<a href=3D"https://film.avclub.com/blue-velvet-17981=
70482" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; col=
or: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; box-=
shadow: rgb(227, 58, 245) 0px -2px 0px inset; transition: color 0.1s ease-o=
ut;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49491"><em style=3D"box-sizing: =
inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"y=
ui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49492">Blue Velvet</em></a><em style=3D"box-=
sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;"=
 id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49493">&nbsp;</em>and&nbsp;<a href=
=3D"https://www.avclub.com/c/tv-review/twin-peaks" rel=3D"nofollow" style=
=3D"box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration-line: none=
; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(227, 58, 245) 0px -2px 0px inset; t=
ransition: color 0.1s ease-out;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_4949=
4"><em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; li=
ne-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49495">Twin Peak=
s</em></a>, stars as the heir of a noble house who leads the planet=E2=80=
=99s native inhabitants in a rebellion, though his hero=E2=80=99s journey i=
s lost in the film=E2=80=99s tapestry of conspiracies, accents, Freudian ov=
ertones, tsarist trappings, and creepy drones. By turns bombastic and grote=
sque, campy and fatalistic,&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-ren=
dering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_=
1507160346470_49496">Dune&nbsp;</em>has to be the most subconsciously stran=
ge film to ever try to pass itself off as special effects blockbuster=E2=80=
=94less an adaptation of Frank Herbert=E2=80=99s classic 1965 novel than an=
 obfuscation. [Ignatiy Vishnevetsky]<br style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=
=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49497"></div><h2 style=3D"box-sizing: i=
nherit; margin: 0px auto 1rem; font-family: ProximaNovaCond, sans-serif; fo=
nt-size: 1.75rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1.3; col=
or: rgb(0, 0, 0); max-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_=
49498">34.&nbsp;<a href=3D"https://film.avclub.com/the-new-cult-canon-battl=
e-royale-1798214119" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"box-sizing=
: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration-line: none; line-height:=
 inherit; box-shadow: rgb(227, 58, 245) 0px -2px 0px inset; transition: col=
or 0.1s ease-out;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49499"><em style=
=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: i=
nherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49500">Battle Royale</em></a=
>&nbsp;(2000)<br style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_150=
7160346470_49501"></h2><figure style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; max-width: non=
e; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; clear: left;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_150716034=
6470_49502"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0=
px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; max-width: 1280px;" id=3D"yui_3_1=
6_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49503"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: =
0px; padding: 0px 0px 510.781px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_495=
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ure style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49=
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picture></span></div><figcaption style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; position: re=
lative; font-family: ProximaNovaCond, sans-serif; color: rgb(170, 170, 170)=
; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-top: 0.5rem;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0=
_ym19_1_1507160346470_49517">Photo: Trailer screenshot</figcaption></div></=
figure><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibilit=
y; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-left: auto; word-brea=
k: break-word; font-size: 17px; line-height: 32px; max-width: 636px;" id=3D=
"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49518">When<em style=3D"box-sizing: inheri=
t; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_1=
6_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49519">&nbsp;</em>one of dystopian literature=E2=
=80=99s cruelest solutions to overpopulation made it to the big screen, it =
was condemned by Japanese parliament and shunned by North American distribu=
tors. But whether they waited for a legal means to see the students of clas=
s 3-B pick each other off one by one or risked acquiring their own explosiv=
e collar by seeking out a bootleg, American audiences would learn that Kinj=
i Fukasaku=E2=80=99s futuristic bloodbath lives up to its reputation. Every=
thing feels like life or death in high school, and&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-si=
zing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" i=
d=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49520">Battle Royale&nbsp;</em>inflate=
s those feelings to allegorical proportions, a twisted test of loyalty and =
survival that=E2=80=99s part&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-re=
ndering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1=
_1507160346470_49521">Lord Of The Flies</em>, part&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-si=
zing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" i=
d=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49522">The Most Dangerous Game</em>, a=
nd part media critique =C3=A0 la&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; tex=
t-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym=
19_1_1507160346470_49523">The Running Man</em>. Nearly impossible to see fo=
r more than a decade, the film still managed to influence blockbuster franc=
hises (<a href=3D"https://film.avclub.com/the-hunger-games-1798172070" targ=
et=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(34,=
 34, 34); text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb=
(227, 58, 245) 0px -2px 0px inset; transition: color 0.1s ease-out;" id=3D"=
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xt-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_y=
m19_1_1507160346470_49525">The Hunger Games</em></a>) and its fellow future=
 midnight features (<a href=3D"https://film.avclub.com/quentin-tarantino-ma=
kes-his-one-true-action-movie-and-1798263140" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noop=
ener" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration=
-line: none; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(227, 58, 245) 0px -2px 0=
px inset; transition: color 0.1s ease-out;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160=
346470_49526"><em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLeg=
ibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49527=
">Kill Bill</em></a>), though perhaps its greatest impact is in making a cr=
ackerjack sci-fi picture out of the sneaking, teenage suspicion that everyt=
hing and everyone is set against you. [Erik Adams]<br style=3D"box-sizing: =
inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49528"></div><h2 style=3D"b=
ox-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1rem; font-family: ProximaNovaCond, sa=
ns-serif; font-size: 1.75rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-heig=
ht: 1.3; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); max-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15=
07160346470_49529">33.&nbsp;<a href=3D"https://film.avclub.com/moon-1798206=
399" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; color=
: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; box-sh=
adow: rgb(227, 58, 245) 0px -2px 0px inset; transition: color 0.1s ease-out=
;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49530"><em style=3D"box-sizing: in=
herit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui=
_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49531">Moon</em></a>&nbsp;(2009)</h2><figure s=
tyle=3D"box-sizing: inherit; max-width: none; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; clea=
r: left;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49532"><div style=3D"box-si=
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9_1_1507160346470_49545"><img class=3D"ymail-preserve-class inline-image-gu=
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d-c3540f0a-7e0c-cb77-52c6-072ce88159a0" alt=3D"Inline image" style=3D"width=
:100%;max-width:1px;max-height:1px;"><br></picture></span></div><figcaption=
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Cond, sans-serif; color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 15px; line-height: =
21px; margin-top: 0.5rem;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49547">Pho=
to: Trailer screenshot</figcaption></div></figure><div style=3D"box-sizing:=
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ttom: 1.25rem; margin-left: auto; word-break: break-word; font-size: 17px; =
line-height: 32px; max-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470=
_49548">Duncan Jones earned a richly deserved BAFTA for his 2009 debut, a t=
hrowback bit of hard sci-fi about a lone astronaut who spends his days mini=
ng the lunar surface for a massive corporation, and his nights building mod=
els, arguing with his robot buddy (Kevin Spacey, providing a 21st century, =
emoji-equipped answer to Hal 9000), and pining for the family he left back =
on Earth. But shortly before Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is scheduled to go hom=
e, an on-the-job accident permanently disrupts his monotonous routine, and&=
nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; =
line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49549">Moon&nb=
sp;</em>soon finds itself spiraling into a much weirder direction. Like all=
 the best sci-fi, Jones=E2=80=99 film<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text=
-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym1=
9_1_1507160346470_49550">&nbsp;</em>asks questions that we=E2=80=99re not y=
et equipped to answer, the big, heady stuff about who we are, where we=E2=
=80=99re headed, and how much damage we=E2=80=99re going to do to ourselves=
 along the way. It=E2=80=99s also a fantastic showcase for Rockwell, who so=
mehow manages to make driving a giant truck across the stark, gorgeous stil=
lness of the lunar surface look like just another boring goddamn job, while=
 simultaneously working through the steps of a serious existential freak-ou=
t without ever descending into hysterics. [William Hughes]<br style=3D"box-=
sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49551"></div><h2 st=
yle=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1rem; font-family: ProximaNova=
Cond, sans-serif; font-size: 1.75rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; l=
ine-height: 1.3; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); max-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_y=
m19_1_1507160346470_49552">32.<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-render=
ing: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_150=
7160346470_49553">&nbsp;<a href=3D"https://film.avclub.com/the-adventures-o=
f-buckaroo-banzai-across-the-eighth-dim-1798197331" target=3D"_blank" rel=
=3D"noopener" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-de=
coration-line: none; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(227, 58, 245) 0p=
x -2px 0px inset; transition: color 0.1s ease-out;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1=
_1507160346470_49554">The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dime=
nsion</a>&nbsp;</em>(1984)</h2><figure style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; max-wi=
dth: none; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; clear: left;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1=
507160346470_49555"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; pa=
dding: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; max-width: 1280px;" id=3D=
"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49556"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; =
margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 481.141px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_150716034=
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ibility; position: relative; clear: both; display: block;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0=
_ym19_1_1507160346470_49558"><span style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rende=
ring: optimizeLegibility; opacity: 0; ; top: 8px; left: 8px; width: 32px; m=
in-height: 32px; border-radius: 5px; cursor: pointer; transition: 0.15s; ba=
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d=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49567"><source data-srcset=3D"https://=
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=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49568"><img class=3D"ymail-preserve-cla=
ss inline-image-guid-de9b479f-6fe0-a9f3-7133-99532c7a214b rte-inline-saved-=
image" src=3D"cid:[email protected]" data-id=
=3D"inline-image-guid-de9b479f-6fe0-a9f3-7133-99532c7a214b" alt=3D"Inline i=
mage" style=3D"width:100%;max-width:1px;max-height:1px;"><br></picture></sp=
an></div><figcaption style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; position: relative; font=
-family: ProximaNovaCond, sans-serif; color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size:=
 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-top: 0.5rem;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507=
160346470_49570">Photo: Trailer screenshot</figcaption></div></figure><div =
style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; margin-ri=
ght: auto; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-left: auto; word-break: break-wor=
d; font-size: 17px; line-height: 32px; max-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_=
ym19_1_1507160346470_49571">Science fiction is often rife with dense mythol=
ogies, but rarely is the mythology more&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inher=
it; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_=
16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49572">casually</em>&nbsp;dense than in&nbsp;<em =
style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-heig=
ht: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49573">The Adventures O=
f Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8<sup style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui=
_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49574">th</sup>&nbsp;Dimension</em>. W.D. Rich=
ter=E2=80=99s madcap debut follows the eponymous neurosurgeon/test pilot/ro=
ck star (Peter Weller, cool as all hell) as he defends Earth from an inter-=
dimensional alien takeover. But the plot couldn=E2=80=99t be more beside th=
e point. Taking their cues from a variety of high/low pop culture=E2=80=94<=
em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-h=
eight: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49575">The Fantastic=
 Four</em>, Thomas Pynchon, Orson Welles, =E2=80=9970s kung fu, Elvis Coste=
llo=E2=80=94Richter and screenwriter Earl Mac Rauch create a complex world =
and then have the confidence never to over-explain it, instead allowing vie=
wers to comb through the thicket of gags on repeat viewings. What really ke=
eps them coming back is the generosity of spirit baked into everything from=
 the performances to the intricate production design. It=E2=80=99s a wacky =
ride to nowhere and everywhere at once. [Vikram Murthi]<br style=3D"box-siz=
ing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49576"></div><h2 style=
=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1rem; font-family: ProximaNovaCon=
d, sans-serif; font-size: 1.75rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line=
-height: 1.3; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); max-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19=
_1_1507160346470_49577">31.&nbsp;<a href=3D"https://film.avclub.com/the-kor=
ean-horror-movie-the-host-finds-humor-among-mayh-1798232095" target=3D"_bla=
nk" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); =
text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(227, 58, =
245) 0px -2px 0px inset; transition: color 0.1s ease-out;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0=
_ym19_1_1507160346470_49578"><em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-renderi=
ng: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507=
160346470_49579">The Host</em></a>&nbsp;(2006)</h2><figure style=3D"box-siz=
ing: inherit; max-width: none; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; clear: left;" id=3D=
"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49580"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; =
margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; max-w=
idth: 1280px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49581"><div style=3D"b=
ox-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 500.906px;" id=3D"yui_3_1=
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tion: relative; font-family: ProximaNovaCond, sans-serif; color: rgb(170, 1=
70, 170); font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-top: 0.5rem;" id=3D"yu=
i_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49595">Photo: Trailer screenshot</figcaption>=
</div></figure><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeL=
egibility; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-left: auto; w=
ord-break: break-word; font-size: 17px; line-height: 32px; max-width: 636px=
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t time&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegib=
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The Host</em>&nbsp;has crashed a decades-spanning&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-siz=
ing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=
=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49598">A.V. Club</em>list. Two years ag=
o, it made like a rampaging mutant river monster and plowed its way into ou=
r ranked rundown of the&nbsp;<a href=3D"https://film.avclub.com/the-25-best=
-horror-movies-since-2000-1798285725" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" st=
yle=3D"box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration-line: n=
one; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(227, 58, 245) 0px -2px 0px inset=
; transition: color 0.1s ease-out;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_4=
9599">new millennium=E2=80=99s best horror films</a>. Truth is, this exhila=
rating budget blockbuster=E2=80=94Spielbergian in both its focus on fatherh=
ood and its tremendous special effects=E2=80=94is no more easily classified=
 than the film=E2=80=99s ferocious star attraction. The basic premise is sc=
ience (runs amok) fiction: an eccentric makeover of atomic-age anxieties. B=
ut South Korean visionary Bong Joon-ho juggles multiple tones and genres, s=
tuffing a seriocomic family portrait down the gullet of a throwback kaiju m=
ovie, then dousing the whole thing in withering social critique. In other w=
ords, though&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimiz=
eLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_4=
9600">The Host&nbsp;</em>helped<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rende=
ring: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15=
07160346470_49601">&nbsp;</em>put Bong on his current path to sci-fi canoni=
zation (see: two films down from here), don=E2=80=99t be shocked when it br=
eaks the top 20 of next year=E2=80=99s list of, say, the best political sat=
ires since&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeL=
egibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_496=
02">Being There</em>. [A.A. Dowd]<br style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"y=
ui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49603"></div><h2 style=3D"box-sizing: inheri=
t; margin: 0px auto 1rem; font-family: ProximaNovaCond, sans-serif; font-si=
ze: 1.75rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1.3; color: r=
gb(0, 0, 0); max-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49604=
">30.&nbsp;<a href=3D"https://film.avclub.com/looper-1798174341" target=3D"=
_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 3=
4); text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(227, =
58, 245) 0px -2px 0px inset; transition: color 0.1s ease-out;" id=3D"yui_3_=
16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49605"><em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-ren=
dering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_=
1507160346470_49606">Looper</em></a>&nbsp;(2012)</h2><figure style=3D"box-s=
izing: inherit; max-width: none; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; clear: left;" id=
=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49607"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inheri=
t; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; ma=
x-width: 1280px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49608"><div style=
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dia/image/upload/s--K1UpRtVw--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_1600/xizo91jjs=
0iyvtyxrurm.jpg" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_150=
7160346470_49620"><img class=3D"ymail-preserve-class inline-image-guid-8125=
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ax-width:1px;max-height:1px;"><br></picture></span></div><figcaption style=
=3D"box-sizing: inherit; position: relative; font-family: ProximaNovaCond, =
sans-serif; color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; =
margin-top: 0.5rem;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49622">Photo: Tr=
ailer screenshot</figcaption></div></figure><div style=3D"box-sizing: inher=
it; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: =
1.25rem; margin-left: auto; word-break: break-word; font-size: 17px; line-h=
eight: 32px; max-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49623=
">What a masterful mindfuck of a movie. In the 2044 of&nbsp;<em style=3D"bo=
x-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit=
;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49624">Looper</em>, time travel ex=
ists, but it=E2=80=99s mainly used by a giant organized crime syndicate, wh=
ich sends hit men who have outlived their usefulness back in time to be mur=
dered by their younger selves. Getting your head wrapped around the premise=
 is only half the fun of Rian Johnson=E2=80=99s futuristic noir, which cast=
s Joseph Gordon-Levitt as one of these so-called Loopers, who gets into a j=
am when he fails to kill the 30-years-later version of himself, played by B=
ruce Willis. There=E2=80=99s nifty weaponry, some unexpected location chang=
es, age-old questions of the =E2=80=9Ccould you kill baby Hitler?=E2=80=9D =
variety, and an opportunity for Gordon-Levitt (with a small CGI assist) to =
do his best squinty Bruce Willis impression. Inventively made on a modest b=
udget,&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegib=
ility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49625">=
Looper</em>&nbsp;helped Johnson score a pretty plum gig; his next project i=
s a little movie called&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-renderi=
ng: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507=
160346470_49626">The Last Jedi</em>. [Gwen Ihnat]<br style=3D"box-sizing: i=
nherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49627"></div><h2 style=3D"bo=
x-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1rem; font-family: ProximaNovaCond, san=
s-serif; font-size: 1.75rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-heigh=
t: 1.3; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); max-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_150=
7160346470_49628"><strong style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inheri=
t;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49629">29.&nbsp;<a href=3D"https:=
//film.avclub.com/from-the-director-of-the-host-comes-snowpiercer-a-thri-17=
98180771" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; =
color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; b=
ox-shadow: rgb(227, 58, 245) 0px -2px 0px inset; transition: color 0.1s eas=
e-out;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49630"><em style=3D"box-sizin=
g: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=
=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49631">Snowpiercer</em></a>&nbsp;(2013)=
</strong></h2><figure style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; max-width: none; margin=
: 0px auto 1.5rem; clear: left;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_4963=
2"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; overf=
low: hidden; position: relative; max-width: 1280px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_=
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ibility; opacity: 0; ; top: 8px; left: 8px; width: 32px; min-height: 32px; =
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gba(0, 0, 0, 0.7); z-index: 93;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_4963=
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d=3D"inline-image-guid-863ac8d6-1482-d267-fc21-7dae3db61146" alt=3D"Inline =
image" style=3D"width:100%;max-width:1px;max-height:1px;"><br></picture></s=
pan></div><figcaption style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; position: relative; fon=
t-family: ProximaNovaCond, sans-serif; color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size=
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ight: auto; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-left: auto; word-break: break-wo=
rd; font-size: 17px; line-height: 32px; max-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0=
_ym19_1_1507160346470_49648">In Bong Joon-ho=E2=80=99s&nbsp;<em style=3D"bo=
x-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit=
;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49649">Snowpiercer</em>, the remna=
nts of humanity pack tightly into train cars, where =E2=80=9Cfirst-class pa=
ssenger=E2=80=9D has taken on a new meaning. Uprisings are a common occurre=
nce, but they=E2=80=99re brutally suppressed. Though there=E2=80=99s really=
 only one way out of this dystopian nightmare, there=E2=80=99s nothing stra=
ightforward about Bong=E2=80=99s vision. The director of&nbsp;<em style=3D"=
box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inher=
it;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49650">The Host</em>&nbsp;takes =
a French sci-fi novel, filters it through some of the genre=E2=80=99s best =
films, including&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: opt=
imizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15071603464=
70_49651">Aliens</em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-=
rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19=
_1_1507160346470_49652">Brazil</em>, and then reimagines capitalism=E2=80=
=99s rat race as a never-ending train trek. Parallels are easy to drawn, bu=
t Bong and co-writer Kelly Masterson=E2=80=99s class-warfare parable is unl=
ike any other, in part because the character development is as plentiful fo=
r the have-nots as it is for the haves. The result is equal parts grimy fab=
le and post-apocalyptic action movie, powered by a soulful lead performance=
 by Captain America himself, Chris Evans. [Danette Chavez]<br style=3D"box-=
sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49653"></div><h2 st=
yle=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1rem; font-family: ProximaNova=
Cond, sans-serif; font-size: 1.75rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; l=
ine-height: 1.3; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); max-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_y=
m19_1_1507160346470_49654">28.&nbsp;<a href=3D"https://film.avclub.com/huma=
ns-get-hacked-in-a-landmark-dystopian-anime-1798267894" target=3D"_blank" r=
el=3D"noopener" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-=
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_1_1507160346470_49655"><em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: o=
ptimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_150716034=
6470_49656">Ghost In The Shell</em></a>&nbsp;(1995)</h2><figure style=3D"bo=
x-sizing: inherit; max-width: none; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; clear: left;" =
id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49657"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inhe=
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=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 534.5px;" id=3D"yui_=
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ft: 8px; width: 32px; min-height: 32px; border-radius: 5px; cursor: pointer=
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2-4cd1-13a9-88a8a539d595" alt=3D"Inline image" style=3D"width:100%;max-widt=
h:1px;max-height:1px;"><br></picture></span></div><figcaption style=3D"box-=
sizing: inherit; position: relative; font-family: ProximaNovaCond, sans-ser=
if; color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-t=
op: 0.5rem;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49672">Photo: Trailer sc=
reenshot</figcaption></div></figure><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text=
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2px; max-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49673">You=E2=
=80=99d be forgiven for thinking that the stars of&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-si=
zing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" i=
d=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49674">Ghost In The Shell&nbsp;</em>we=
re its various lovingly animated machines: enormous mechanical firearms, bo=
xy cars and helicopters, intricately locking steam-powered doors, and blink=
ing UX displays full of hallucinatory information. Its humans, meanwhile, o=
ften remain static for whole scenes, barely blinking; you never even see Ba=
tou=E2=80=99s eyes. Mamoru Oshii=E2=80=99s cyberpunk masterpiece explores a=
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, but it has a clinical, almost procedural air, with the bureaucratic intri=
gue and moody, neon-lit nightscapes of a Michael Mann film. Thanks in part =
to the vast fictional universe from which it hails=E2=80=94which has result=
ed in several excellent sequels, games, and the rare&nbsp;<a href=3D"https:=
//film.avclub.com/the-beguiling-ghost-in-the-shell-is-more-replicant-than-1=
798190943" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;=
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se-out;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49675">CG-modified remake</a=
>&nbsp;that doesn=E2=80=99t ruin everything=E2=80=94this seminal anime mana=
ges to couch its transhumanist musings in a narrower noir narrative. In the=
 same year that also brought sensationalist,&nbsp;<a href=3D"https://film.a=
vclub.com/1995-marked-the-birth-of-internet-paranoia-films-1798280432" targ=
et=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(34,=
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(227, 58, 245) 0px -2px 0px inset; transition: color 0.1s ease-out;" id=3D"=
yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49676">instantly dated technophobe narrativ=
es</a>&nbsp;like&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: opt=
imizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15071603464=
70_49677">Hackers</em>,&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-renderi=
ng: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507=
160346470_49678">Johnny Mnemonic</em>, and&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: in=
herit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui=
_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49679">The Net</em>,&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-siz=
ing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=
=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49680">Ghost In The Shell</em>&nbsp;man=
ages to render the digital infosphere at once mundane and liberating, an ag=
ent of change to be anticipated, protected, and exploited. [Clayton Purdom]=
<br style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49=
681"></div><h2 style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1rem; font-fa=
mily: ProximaNovaCond, sans-serif; font-size: 1.75rem; text-rendering: opti=
mizeLegibility; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); max-width: 636px;" i=
d=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49682">27.&nbsp;<a href=3D"https://fil=
m.avclub.com/the-new-cult-canon-donnie-darko-1798213361" target=3D"_blank" =
rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text=
-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(227, 58, 245)=
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9_1_1507160346470_49683"><em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: =
optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15071603=
46470_49684">Donnie Darko</em></a>&nbsp;(2001)</h2><figure style=3D"box-siz=
ing: inherit; max-width: none; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; clear: left;" id=3D=
"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49685"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; =
margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; max-w=
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ox-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 484.109px;" id=3D"yui_3_1=
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_49697"><source data-srcset=3D"https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/u=
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_49698"><img class=3D"ymail-preserve-class inline-image-guid-b2d37aa5-8e36-=
435b-4f12-77268789424c rte-inline-saved-image" src=3D"cid:123c1bc6-928b-5d4=
[email protected]" data-id=3D"inline-image-guid-b2d37aa5-8e36-4=
35b-4f12-77268789424c" alt=3D"Inline image" style=3D"width:100%;max-width:1=
px;max-height:1px;"><br></picture></span></div><figcaption style=3D"box-siz=
ing: inherit; position: relative; font-family: ProximaNovaCond, sans-serif;=
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nshot</figcaption></div></figure><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-re=
ndering: optimizeLegibility; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; ma=
rgin-left: auto; word-break: break-word; font-size: 17px; line-height: 32px=
; max-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49701">Disregard=
ing&nbsp;<a href=3D"https://film.avclub.com/the-unkindest-cut-13-plus-movie=
s-weakened-by-directors-1798231638" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" styl=
e=3D"box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration-line: non=
e; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(227, 58, 245) 0px -2px 0px inset; =
transition: color 0.1s ease-out;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_497=
02">its overly explanatory director=E2=80=99s cut</a>, Richard Kelly=E2=80=
=99s debut is less of a straight science-fiction film than a metaphysical m=
editation on teenage alienation, on that feeling like neither you nor anyth=
ing you do matters. In his breakout role, Jake Gyllenhaal uses his haunted =
eyes to their greatest effect as the titular troubled kid, living in an ano=
nymous late =E2=80=9980s suburb, where he=E2=80=99s plagued by nightmarish =
visions of a man in a rabbit costume, ominously counting down to the apocal=
ypse. Kelly=E2=80=99s film creates a sustained mood of dreamy portent, full=
 of Lynchian surreality, eerily calm silences, and some of the best use of =
gloomy new-wave ever committed to celluloid. But&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizi=
ng: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=
=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49703">Donnie Darko</em>&nbsp;also leav=
ens these with moments of absurdist black comedy (never doubt his commitmen=
t to Sparkle Motion) as well as a surprisingly moving story about a family =
trying to cope with mental illness. It=E2=80=99s a uniquely soulful work, o=
ne that just happens to involve wormholes and demon bunnies. [Sean O=E2=80=
=99Neal]<br style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15071603=
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ng: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); max-width: 6=
36px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49705"><strong style=3D"box-si=
zing: inherit; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470=
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nold-a-star-and-changes-action-c-1798251750#_ga=3D2.226433491.81544716.1506=
889770-895532060.1491529866" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"bo=
x-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration-line: none; line=
-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(227, 58, 245) 0px -2px 0px inset; transit=
ion: color 0.1s ease-out;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49707"><em=
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ght: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49708">The Terminator<=
/em></a><em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibilit=
y; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49709">&nbs=
p;</em>(1984)</strong></h2><figure style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; max-width:=
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0_49725">Photo: Screenshot</figcaption></div></figure><div style=3D"box-siz=
ing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; margin-right: auto; margi=
n-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-left: auto; word-break: break-word; font-size: 17=
px; line-height: 32px; max-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_150716034=
6470_49726">The brilliant low-budget sci-fi action flick that launched Jame=
s Cameron=E2=80=99s career begins its mirror dance of destruction and desti=
ny with a tank-bot crushing human skulls in a post-apocalyptic wasteland an=
d two nude figures materializing from blobs of animated lighting in mid-198=
0s Los Angeles. One is a human soldier (Michael Biehn) thrown back in time =
to protect a diner waitress named Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), the other =
an unstoppable machine (Arnold Schwarzenegger) sent to kill her; their path=
s will eventually cross on a dance floor. A breathlessly efficient B-movie =
of choreographed momentum and comic-book-panel compositions,&nbsp;<em style=
=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: i=
nherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49727">The Terminator</em>&n=
bsp;showed sci-fi could be as brutal and lean as the starkest pulp; Schwarz=
enegger=E2=80=99s angular physique would never be put to more perfect use. =
[Ignatiy Vishnevetsky]</div><h2 style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px a=
uto 1rem; font-family: ProximaNovaCond, sans-serif; font-size: 1.75rem; tex=
t-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); max=
-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49728">25.&nbsp;<a hr=
ef=3D"https://film.avclub.com/the-new-cult-canon-they-live-1798213585" targ=
et=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(34,=
 34, 34); text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb=
(227, 58, 245) 0px -2px 0px inset; transition: color 0.1s ease-out;" id=3D"=
yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49729"><em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; te=
xt-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_y=
m19_1_1507160346470_49730">They Live</em></a><em style=3D"box-sizing: inher=
it; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_=
16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49731">&nbsp;</em>(1988)</h2><figure style=3D"box=
-sizing: inherit; max-width: none; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; clear: left;" i=
d=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49732"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inher=
it; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; m=
ax-width: 5388px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49733"><div style=
=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 658px;" id=3D"yui_3_=
16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49734"><span style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-r=
endering: optimizeLegibility; position: relative; clear: both; display: blo=
ck;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49735"><span style=3D"box-sizing=
: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; opacity: 0; ; top: 8px; left=
: 8px; width: 32px; min-height: 32px; border-radius: 5px; cursor: pointer; =
transition: 0.15s; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7); z-index: 93;" id=
=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49736"><svg id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_150=
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ref=3D"#iconset-zoom-in" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49738"><svg =
viewBox=3D"0 0 18 18" x=3D"1" y=3D"1" width=3D"100%" height=3D"100%" id=3D"=
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_636/peprljljkqkgrbvqhwdm.jpg" media=3D"(max-width: 599px)" sizes=3D"988px"=
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ng: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49743"><source data-src=
set=3D"https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--HHCewSxb--/c_sc=
ale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/peprljljkqkgrbvqhwdm.jpg" media=3D"(max-width=
: 799px)" sizes=3D"988px" srcset=3D"https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/im=
age/upload/s--HHCewSxb--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/peprljljkqkgrbvq=
hwdm.jpg" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346=
470_49744"><source data-srcset=3D"https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/imag=
e/upload/s--fvI8ESmk--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_1600/peprljljkqkgrbvqh=
wdm.jpg" sizes=3D"988px" srcset=3D"https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/ima=
ge/upload/s--fvI8ESmk--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_1600/peprljljkqkgrbvq=
hwdm.jpg" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346=
470_49745"><img class=3D"ymail-preserve-class inline-image-guid-d49258b9-fa=
b4-a482-e6d1-677205dce3a6 rte-inline-saved-image" src=3D"cid:2241a68b-8e89-=
[email protected]" data-id=3D"inline-image-guid-d49258b9-fab=
4-a482-e6d1-677205dce3a6" alt=3D"Inline image" style=3D"width:100%;max-widt=
h:1px;max-height:1px;"><br></picture></span></div><figcaption style=3D"box-=
sizing: inherit; position: relative; font-family: ProximaNovaCond, sans-ser=
if; color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-t=
op: 0.5rem;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49747">Photo: Sunset Bou=
levard/Corbis/Getty</figcaption></div></figure><div style=3D"box-sizing: in=
herit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; margin-right: auto; margin-botto=
m: 1.25rem; margin-left: auto; word-break: break-word; font-size: 17px; lin=
e-height: 32px; max-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49=
748">John Carpenter=E2=80=99s 1988 cult classic isn=E2=80=99t subtle about =
its anti-capitalist message, bluntly emblazoning it across the =E2=80=9COBE=
Y=E2=80=9D billboards that only its special sunglasses-wearing hero can see=
. Still, the fact that&nbsp;<a href=3D"https://news.avclub.com/john-carpent=
er-thinks-internet-nazis-need-to-quit-misin-1798255923" target=3D"_blank" r=
el=3D"noopener" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-=
decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(227, 58, 245) =
0px -2px 0px inset; transition: color 0.1s ease-out;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19=
_1_1507160346470_49749">even idiot neo-Nazis seem to believe the film is re=
ally about the Jews</a>&nbsp;just speaks to how deftly&nbsp;<em style=3D"bo=
x-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit=
;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49750">They Live</em>&nbsp;resonat=
es with everyone=E2=80=99s inner conspiracist, where we=E2=80=99re secretly=
 convinced that we=E2=80=99re at the mercy of powerful forces beyond our co=
ntrol. In the case of =E2=80=9CRowdy=E2=80=9D Roddy Piper=E2=80=99s constru=
ction worker, those forces are actual aliens living among us who use sublim=
inal advertising to keep the populace living as docile, conformist consumer=
s. It=E2=80=99s a simple premise=E2=80=94Orwell meets&nbsp;<em style=3D"box=
-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;=
" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49751">AdBusters&nbsp;</em>meets yo=
ur freshman year of college=E2=80=94but Carpenter turns that anti-yuppie sc=
reed into the kind of fun, satirical romp where Piper and Keith David can j=
ust&nbsp;<a href=3D"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D4-MVMbm6c0k" target=
=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(34, 3=
4, 34); text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(2=
27, 58, 245) 0px -2px 0px inset; transition: color 0.1s ease-out;" id=3D"yu=
i_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49752">wrestle in an alley for five straight =
minutes</a>. And he gives it such lasting iconography, it=E2=80=99s still b=
eing referenced (and misinterpreted) 30 years later. [Sean O=E2=80=99Neal]<=
br style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_497=
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ily: ProximaNovaCond, sans-serif; font-size: 1.75rem; text-rendering: optim=
izeLegibility; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); max-width: 636px;" id=
=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49754">24.&nbsp;<a href=3D"https://film=
.avclub.com/inception-1798165473" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=
=3D"box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration-line: none=
; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(227, 58, 245) 0px -2px 0px inset; t=
ransition: color 0.1s ease-out;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_4975=
5"><em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; li=
ne-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49756">Inception=
</em></a>&nbsp;(2010)</h2><figure style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; max-width: =
none; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; clear: left;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_150716=
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color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7); z-index: 93;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346=
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lative; font-family: ProximaNovaCond, sans-serif; color: rgb(170, 170, 170)=
; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-top: 0.5rem;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0=
_ym19_1_1507160346470_49772">Photo: Trailer screenshot</figcaption></div></=
figure><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibilit=
y; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-left: auto; word-brea=
k: break-word; font-size: 17px; line-height: 32px; max-width: 636px;" id=3D=
"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49773">The most important technology in&nb=
sp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; li=
ne-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49774">Inception=
</em>&nbsp;isn=E2=80=99t the largely unseen dream-invading machine that dri=
ves the plot, the numerous clocks Christopher Nolan focuses on lovingly, or=
 even that infamous top. It=E2=80=99s something much older and more sacred:=
 the labyrinth, particularly of the unsolvable, Borgesian sort, which recon=
figures itself at every turn and reveals ever-expanding mazes within mazes.=
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=E2=80=94an introduction that, once the film=E2=80=99s game-like mechanics =
are established, proves increasingly fitting as each character=E2=80=99s ps=
yche is revealed to be a series of logical puzzles. The competing wills of =
a dying scion, the careful set-up that leaves DiCaprio=E2=80=99s Cobb frame=
d, the layered deceits that make Cillian Murphy=E2=80=99s Robert Fischer co=
mply with the team raiding his mind: Nolan literalizes these as three-dimen=
sional space, staging them as crumbling modernist nowheres, secret air duct=
s infiltrating a snowbound fortress, a train barreling through a rainy city=
 street. How strange and beautiful that all of these serpentine mechanisms =
reveal at last Nolan=E2=80=99s most personal film: a harrowing chess match =
between lovers, the final resolution of which makes that still-spinning top=
 irrelevant. Cobb finds his way out of one maze, and stops wondering if he=
=E2=80=99s in another, which is about as idealistic a resolution as any res=
tless creative mind could dream. [Clayton Purdom]<br style=3D"box-sizing: i=
nherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49775"></div><h2 style=3D"bo=
x-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1rem; font-family: ProximaNovaCond, san=
s-serif; font-size: 1.75rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-heigh=
t: 1.3; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); max-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_150=
7160346470_49776">23.<a href=3D"https://film.avclub.com/edge-of-tomorrow-pu=
ts-tom-cruise-through-an-action-pack-1798180619" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"n=
oopener" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decorat=
ion-line: none; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(227, 58, 245) 0px -2p=
x 0px inset; transition: color 0.1s ease-out;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507=
160346470_49777">&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: op=
timizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346=
470_49778">Edge Of Tomorrow</em></a>&nbsp;(2014)</h2><figure style=3D"box-s=
izing: inherit; max-width: none; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; clear: left;" id=
=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49779"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inheri=
t; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; ma=
x-width: 1280px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49780"><div style=
=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 556.234px;" id=3D"yu=
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dia/image/upload/s--f8NHdflD--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_1600/npcmsrrgg=
zulu1ozz8wp.jpg" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_150=
7160346470_49792"><img class=3D"ymail-preserve-class inline-image-guid-adab=
ef1e-40b4-ebcb-366b-6cfd0a2f07a9 rte-inline-saved-image" src=3D"cid:1b0c798=
[email protected]" data-id=3D"inline-image-guid-adabe=
f1e-40b4-ebcb-366b-6cfd0a2f07a9" alt=3D"Inline image" style=3D"width:100%;m=
ax-width:1px;max-height:1px;"><br></picture></span></div><figcaption style=
=3D"box-sizing: inherit; position: relative; font-family: ProximaNovaCond, =
sans-serif; color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; =
margin-top: 0.5rem;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49794">Photo: Tr=
ailer screenshot</figcaption></div></figure><div style=3D"box-sizing: inher=
it; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: =
1.25rem; margin-left: auto; word-break: break-word; font-size: 17px; line-h=
eight: 32px; max-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49795=
">Call it&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLe=
gibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_4979=
6">Edge Of Tomorrow</em>, or&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-re=
ndering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1=
_1507160346470_49797">Live Die Repeat</em>, or=E2=80=94to repurpose the hil=
arious title of its manga source material=E2=80=94<em style=3D"box-sizing: =
inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"y=
ui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49798">All You Need Is Kill</em>. Under any =
name, Doug Liman=E2=80=99s fiendishly clever almost-hit already feels like =
a new classic of the genre, one that can be comfortably re-watched about as=
 many times as its main character croaks. Drafted into the real-life game o=
f&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility=
; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49799">Space=
 Invaders</em>&nbsp;that he thoughtlessly propagandizes, Tom Cruise=E2=80=
=99s slimy military spokesman promptly dies on the battlefield, only to con=
tinuously re-spawn, trapped in a loop of his final hours. Like Bill Murray =
in&nbsp;<a href=3D"https://film.avclub.com/bill-murray-lives-life-on-repeat=
-in-groundhog-day-1798241803" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"b=
ox-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration-line: none; lin=
e-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(227, 58, 245) 0px -2px 0px inset; transi=
tion: color 0.1s ease-out;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49800"><e=
m style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-he=
ight: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49801">Groundhog Day<=
/em></a>, he becomes a better man (and in this case, a better soldier) thro=
ugh repetition, while also falling in love with the badass comrade (Emily B=
lunt, going full Sigourney) who forgets him after each reset. The true gall=
ows-humor genius of&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: =
optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15071603=
46470_49802">Edge Of Tomorrow</em>&nbsp;is how it plays with the audience=
=E2=80=99s love/hate feelings toward Cruise himself. We get to have our cak=
e and eat it, too: basking in the aging actor=E2=80=99s still-formidable st=
ar power, while also taking a perverse pleasure in seeing him bite it over =
and over and over again for our amusement. [A.A. Dowd]<br style=3D"box-sizi=
ng: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49803"></div><h2 style=
=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1rem; font-family: ProximaNovaCon=
d, sans-serif; font-size: 1.75rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line=
-height: 1.3; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); max-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19=
_1_1507160346470_49804">22.&nbsp;<a href=3D"https://film.avclub.com/upstrea=
m-color-1798176362#_ga=3D2.13233847.1407947596.1507042467-160227058.1494430=
824" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; color=
: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; box-sh=
adow: rgb(227, 58, 245) 0px -2px 0px inset; transition: color 0.1s ease-out=
;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49805"><em style=3D"box-sizing: in=
herit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui=
_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49806">Upstream Color</em></a>&nbsp;(2013)</h2=
><figure style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; max-width: none; margin: 0px auto 1.=
5rem; clear: left;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49807"><div style=
=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; =
position: relative; max-width: 1280px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15071603464=
70_49808"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px =
556.234px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49809"><span style=3D"box=
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lear: both; display: block;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49810"><=
span style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; opac=
ity: 0; ; top: 8px; left: 8px; width: 32px; min-height: 32px; border-radius=
: 5px; cursor: pointer; transition: 0.15s; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, =
0.7); z-index: 93;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49811"><svg id=3D=
"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49812"><use xmlns:xlink=3D"http://www.w3.o=
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le><path d=3D"M9.5 3.5v6m-3-3h6M5 11L.5 15.5" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15071=
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,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/ttxwyic2rjrg3pkxxwxe.jpg" media=3D"(max-width: 5=
99px)" sizes=3D"988px" srcset=3D"https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image=
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9818"><source data-srcset=3D"https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upl=
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mg.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--OhtAq-rZ--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,=
w_800/ttxwyic2rjrg3pkxxwxe.jpg" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_=
16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49819"><source data-srcset=3D"https://i.kinja-img=
.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s---0OCOI8o--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_=
1600/ttxwyic2rjrg3pkxxwxe.jpg" sizes=3D"988px" srcset=3D"https://i.kinja-im=
g.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s---0OCOI8o--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w=
_1600/ttxwyic2rjrg3pkxxwxe.jpg" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_=
16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49820"><img class=3D"ymail-preserve-class inline-=
image-guid-cb02b518-e7b0-db43-022c-65e3ad34daf4 rte-inline-saved-image" src=
=3D"cid:[email protected]" data-id=3D"inline-i=
mage-guid-cb02b518-e7b0-db43-022c-65e3ad34daf4" alt=3D"Inline image" style=
=3D"width:100%;max-width:1px;max-height:1px;"><br></picture></span></div><f=
igcaption style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; position: relative; font-family: Pr=
oximaNovaCond, sans-serif; color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 15px; line=
-height: 21px; margin-top: 0.5rem;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_4=
9822">Photo: Trailer screenshot</figcaption></div></figure><div style=3D"bo=
x-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; margin-right: auto; =
margin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-left: auto; word-break: break-word; font-siz=
e: 17px; line-height: 32px; max-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507=
160346470_49823">Wriggling larvae, blue-tipped orchids, fatted sows, a coup=
le with a bond on the molecular level: Director, writer, producer, star, ed=
itor, cinematographer, soundtrack composer, and presumptive orange slice-br=
inger Shane Carruth takes far more interest in rendering the pieces of this=
 vivid puzzle with stunning clarity than fitting them together for us. The =
audience instead processes this enigma on experiential, even spiritual term=
s. (Terrence Malick has been widely over-compared as of late, but if the Te=
xan heritage and fluid long takes of elemental forces fit=E2=80=A6) And whi=
le Carruth has rightly drawn praise for his quixotic impulse to do it all, =
his collaborators brought a lot to the table as well; costar Amy Seimetz sp=
rints the entire emotional gamut, and coeditor David Lowery=E2=80=99s fairy=
 dust has been sprinkled all over the final cut. But it=E2=80=99s Carruth w=
ho has the direct link to the primal energy source=E2=80=94a fuel glacial o=
r volcanic=E2=80=94that powers this frugal mindblower. [Charles Bramesco]<b=
r style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_4982=
4"></div><h2 style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1rem; font-fami=
ly: ProximaNovaCond, sans-serif; font-size: 1.75rem; text-rendering: optimi=
zeLegibility; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); max-width: 636px;" id=
=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49825"><strong style=3D"box-sizing: inh=
erit; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49826">2=
1.&nbsp;<a href=3D"https://film.avclub.com/20-years-later-jurassic-park-sti=
ll-feels-like-the-quin-1798241735" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=
=3D"box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration-line: none=
; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(227, 58, 245) 0px -2px 0px inset; t=
ransition: color 0.1s ease-out;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_4982=
7"><em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; li=
ne-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49828">Jurassic =
Park</em></a>&nbsp;(1993)</strong></h2><figure style=3D"box-sizing: inherit=
; max-width: none; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; clear: left;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_=
ym19_1_1507160346470_49829"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px =
auto; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; max-width: 4780px=
;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49830"><div style=3D"box-sizing: i=
nherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 634.281px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1=
507160346470_49831"><span style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: opt=
imizeLegibility; position: relative; clear: both; display: block;" id=3D"yu=
i_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49832"><span style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; te=
xt-rendering: optimizeLegibility; opacity: 0; ; top: 8px; left: 8px; width:=
 32px; min-height: 32px; border-radius: 5px; cursor: pointer; transition: 0=
.15s; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7); z-index: 93;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_=
ym19_1_1507160346470_49833"><svg id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_4983=
4"><use xmlns:xlink=3D"http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href=3D"#iconset=
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6_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49837"></circle><path d=3D"M9.5 3.5v6m-3-3h6M5 11L=
.5 15.5" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49838"></path></svg></use></=
svg></span><picture style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_=
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=3D"988px" srcset=3D"https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--T=
OC4Nx8G--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/myxe8r0vvvz2pavyh805.jpg" style=
=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49841"><sou=
rce data-srcset=3D"https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--QBH=
yxs-V--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_1600/myxe8r0vvvz2pavyh805.jpg" sizes=
=3D"988px" srcset=3D"https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--Q=
BHyxs-V--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_1600/myxe8r0vvvz2pavyh805.jpg" styl=
e=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49842"><im=
g class=3D"ymail-preserve-class inline-image-guid-17ff26d2-ac94-dbce-8079-5=
fad460b7ae4 rte-inline-saved-image" src=3D"cid:aedae914-fa37-0992-a62b-9300=
[email protected]" data-id=3D"inline-image-guid-17ff26d2-ac94-dbce-8079-5f=
ad460b7ae4" alt=3D"Inline image" style=3D"width:100%;max-width:1px;max-heig=
ht:1px;"><br></picture></span></div><figcaption style=3D"box-sizing: inheri=
t; position: relative; font-family: ProximaNovaCond, sans-serif; color: rgb=
(170, 170, 170); font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-top: 0.5rem;" i=
d=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49844">Photo: Universal/Getty</figcapt=
ion></div></figure><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optim=
izeLegibility; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-left: aut=
o; word-break: break-word; font-size: 17px; line-height: 32px; max-width: 6=
36px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49845">One of the most rousing=
 (and financially successful) blockbusters of the 1990s plunks three scient=
ists and a couple of pesky kids in a theme park where cloned dinosaurs have=
 been let loose in a perfect storm of hubris and greed. It=E2=80=99s not ex=
actly profound stuff, though David Koepp=E2=80=99s script hides layers of i=
rony and self-reflection. Director Steven Spielberg=E2=80=99s mastery of sp=
ecial effects has rarely been more seamless (or necessary) than in this blo=
ckbuster about the blockbuster era; the moral is that the wonders of techno=
logy are best handled with care, and it=E2=80=99s&nbsp;<a href=3D"https://f=
ilm.avclub.com/20-years-later-jurassic-park-still-feels-like-the-quin-17982=
41735#_ga=3D2.225448275.81544716.1506889770-895532060.1491529866" target=3D=
"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, =
34); text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(227,=
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_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49846">buried in the filmmaking itself</a>. The =
park=E2=80=99s tycoon master, a more sympathetic character than in Michael =
Crichton=E2=80=99s bestselling novel, watches on as his technical marvels o=
f childlike wonder begin tearing his audience to shreds. Yet&nbsp;<em style=
=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: i=
nherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49847">Jurassic Park&nbsp;</=
em>is, above all, tremendously fun, from the John Williams score to, yes, t=
he chomping T-Rex. It=E2=80=99s the first of three Spielberg movies to make=
 our list. [Ignatiy Vishnevetsky]<br style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"y=
ui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49848"></div><h2 style=3D"box-sizing: inheri=
t; margin: 0px auto 1rem; font-family: ProximaNovaCond, sans-serif; font-si=
ze: 1.75rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1.3; color: r=
gb(0, 0, 0); max-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49849=
">20.&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibi=
lity; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49850">R=
oboCop&nbsp;</em>(1987)</h2><figure style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; max-width=
: none; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; clear: left;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507=
160346470_49851"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; paddi=
ng: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; max-width: 5551px;" id=3D"yu=
i_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49852"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; mar=
gin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 659.969px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_150716034647=
0_49853"><span style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibi=
lity; position: relative; clear: both; display: block;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym=
19_1_1507160346470_49854"><span style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-renderin=
g: optimizeLegibility; opacity: 0; ; top: 8px; left: 8px; width: 32px; min-=
height: 32px; border-radius: 5px; cursor: pointer; transition: 0.15s; backg=
round-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7); z-index: 93;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507=
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ing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49864"><img class=3D"y=
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alt=3D"Inline image" style=3D"width:100%;max-width:1px;max-height:1px;"><br=
></picture></span></div><figcaption style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; position:=
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70); font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-top: 0.5rem;" id=3D"yui_3_1=
6_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49866">Photo: Orion Pictures Corporation/Sunset Bo=
ulevard/Corbis/Getty</figcaption></div></figure><div style=3D"box-sizing: i=
nherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; margin-right: auto; margin-bott=
om: 1.25rem; margin-left: auto; word-break: break-word; font-size: 17px; li=
ne-height: 32px; max-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_4=
9867">From the city that put America on wheels, then automated itself out o=
f work, comes the future of law enforcement: a tragic hero whose resurrecti=
on and redemption are encased in Detroit steel. The cyberpunk saga of Offic=
er Alex Murphy, Omni Consumer Products, and Delta City makes for the smarte=
st stupid movie of the 1980s, all the big ideas rattling beneath its chassi=
s contributing to a deafening din of glib commercials, T&amp;A sitcoms, and=
 nonstop gunfire. It=E2=80=99s a warning shot about American greed and viol=
ent cowboy justice that could only come from an outsider like Paul Verhoeve=
n, whose near-future Motor City exposed the polluted, putrid soul of Ronald=
 Reagan=E2=80=99s United States, then launched a goddamn franchise out of t=
he toxic waste.&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: opti=
mizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_150716034647=
0_49868">RoboCop</em>&nbsp;incriminates while it absolves: The satirical sp=
ikes and eminently quotable script=E2=80=94=E2=80=9CI fuckin=E2=80=99 love =
that guy,=E2=80=9D =E2=80=9CCan you fly, Bobby?=E2=80=9D, =E2=80=9CI=E2=80=
=99d buy that for a dollar!=E2=80=9D=E2=80=94can=E2=80=99t be separated fro=
m the extreme bloodlust. Dead or alive, you=E2=80=99re coming with&nbsp;<em=
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ght: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49869">RoboCop</em>. [=
Erik Adams]<br style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15071=
60346470_49870"></div><h2 style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1r=
em; font-family: ProximaNovaCond, sans-serif; font-size: 1.75rem; text-rend=
ering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); max-width=
: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49871">19.<em style=3D"box-=
sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;"=
 id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49872">&nbsp;<a href=3D"https://film=
.avclub.com/videodrome-1798199936" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=
=3D"box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration-line: none=
; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(227, 58, 245) 0px -2px 0px inset; t=
ransition: color 0.1s ease-out;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_4987=
3">Videodrome</a></em>&nbsp;(1983)</h2><figure style=3D"box-sizing: inherit=
; max-width: none; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; clear: left;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_=
ym19_1_1507160346470_49874"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px =
auto; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; max-width: 5433px=
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nherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 677.766px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1=
507160346470_49876"><span style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: opt=
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xt-rendering: optimizeLegibility; opacity: 0; ; top: 8px; left: 8px; width:=
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.15s; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7); z-index: 93;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_=
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=3D"988px" srcset=3D"https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--_=
nz1pXa6--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/x0dxu7vun4vcaxsizvs7.jpg" style=
=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49886"><sou=
rce data-srcset=3D"https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--igb=
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=3D"988px" srcset=3D"https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--i=
gb2vP3A--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_1600/x0dxu7vun4vcaxsizvs7.jpg" styl=
e=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49887"><im=
g class=3D"ymail-preserve-class inline-image-guid-42d15aef-8a95-032e-19ca-0=
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50ec566898" alt=3D"Inline image" style=3D"width:100%;max-width:1px;max-heig=
ht:1px;"><br></picture></span></div><figcaption style=3D"box-sizing: inheri=
t; position: relative; font-family: ProximaNovaCond, sans-serif; color: rgb=
(170, 170, 170); font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-top: 0.5rem;" i=
d=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49889">Photo: A Planfilm International=
 II/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis/Getty</figcaption></div></figure><div style=3D"=
box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; margin-right: auto=
; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-left: auto; word-break: break-word; font-s=
ize: 17px; line-height: 32px; max-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15=
07160346470_49890">Early on in&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-=
rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19=
_1_1507160346470_49891">Videodrome</em>, Max Renn (James Woods) receives a =
warning to stay away from the mysterious snuff porn he=E2=80=99s stumbled u=
pon. =E2=80=9CIt has something that you don=E2=80=99t have, Max,=E2=80=9D h=
e=E2=80=99s told. =E2=80=9CIt has a philosophy. And that is what makes it d=
angerous.=E2=80=9D What follows is David Cronenberg=E2=80=99s feverish thes=
is statement, not just because Renn ignores the warning, unlocking a portal=
 to psychosexual transgression and physical transformation, but because it=
=E2=80=99s filmed and presented impassively, uneasily leaving the viewer to=
 determine what that philosophy is and why we should fear it.&nbsp;<em styl=
e=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: =
inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49892">Videodrome</em>&nbsp=
;presents a =E2=80=9Cbattle for the mind of North America=E2=80=9D fought t=
hrough screens, its antagonist a hungry corporation looking to control Amer=
ica=E2=80=99s eyes for corporate gain as well as some other, more eschatolo=
gical end. In an era of reality-TV politics, carefully constructed and mone=
tized digital avatars, and constant surveillance and broadcasting, it=E2=80=
=99s easy to think that we lost this battle. But Cronenberg=E2=80=99s conce=
rns are less didactic, tracing instead Renn=E2=80=99s metamorphosis from op=
portunistic nihilist (=E2=80=9Cthe world=E2=80=99s a shithole, ain=E2=80=99=
t it?=E2=80=9D) to free-roaming agent of anarchy. Its only concern is to no=
rmalize the religion of the new flesh, its violence a capsule that helps in=
stall the philosophy deeper in the brain. This very nebulousness is what ma=
kes&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibili=
ty; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49893">Vid=
eodrome</em>&nbsp;still so resonant, and indeed so dangerous on its own. Li=
ke Renn, we watch on despite these warnings, the screen flickering too sedu=
ctively to turn away. [Clayton Purdom]<br style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=
=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49894"></div><h2 style=3D"box-sizing: i=
nherit; margin: 0px auto 1rem; font-family: ProximaNovaCond, sans-serif; fo=
nt-size: 1.75rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1.3; col=
or: rgb(0, 0, 0); max-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_=
49895">18.&nbsp;<a href=3D"https://film.avclub.com/the-cgi-era-begins-in-ea=
rnest-with-james-cameron-s-bloc-1798255527#_ga=3D2.20044401.81544716.150688=
9770-895532060.1491529866" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"box-=
sizing: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration-line: none; line-h=
eight: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(227, 58, 245) 0px -2px 0px inset; transitio=
n: color 0.1s ease-out;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49896"><em s=
tyle=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-heigh=
t: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49897">Terminator 2: Jud=
gment Day</em></a><em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimiz=
eLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_4=
9898">&nbsp;</em>(1991)</h2><figure style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; max-width=
: none; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; clear: left;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507=
160346470_49899"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; paddi=
ng: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; max-width: 1280px;" id=3D"yu=
i_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49900"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; mar=
gin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 556.234px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_150716034647=
0_49901"><span style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibi=
lity; position: relative; clear: both; display: block;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym=
19_1_1507160346470_49902"><span style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-renderin=
g: optimizeLegibility; opacity: 0; ; top: 8px; left: 8px; width: 32px; min-=
height: 32px; border-radius: 5px; cursor: pointer; transition: 0.15s; backg=
round-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7); z-index: 93;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507=
160346470_49903"><svg id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49904"><use xml=
ns:xlink=3D"http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href=3D"#iconset-zoom-in" i=
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"1" y=3D"1" width=3D"100%" height=3D"100%" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15071603=
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/upload/s--sqw-pDRM--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/rgtuvgy36wgolnxvjt5e.=
jpg" media=3D"(max-width: 599px)" sizes=3D"988px" srcset=3D"https://i.kinja=
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16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49910"><source data-srcset=3D"https://i.kinja-img=
.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--hKY2mu-k--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_=
800/rgtuvgy36wgolnxvjt5e.jpg" media=3D"(max-width: 799px)" sizes=3D"988px" =
srcset=3D"https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--hKY2mu-k--/c=
_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/rgtuvgy36wgolnxvjt5e.jpg" style=3D"box-siz=
ing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49911"><source data-sr=
cset=3D"https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--jMfb4GrK--/c_s=
cale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_1600/rgtuvgy36wgolnxvjt5e.jpg" sizes=3D"988px" s=
rcset=3D"https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--jMfb4GrK--/c_=
scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_1600/rgtuvgy36wgolnxvjt5e.jpg" style=3D"box-siz=
ing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49912"><img class=3D"y=
mail-preserve-class inline-image-guid-c35ce142-a79d-5663-29c1-d59dfba26560 =
rte-inline-saved-image" src=3D"cid:6bb15eb1-1e72-aa93-0a81-e81920a8f0e1@yah=
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alt=3D"Inline image" style=3D"width:100%;max-width:1px;max-height:1px;"><br=
></picture></span></div><figcaption style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; position:=
 relative; font-family: ProximaNovaCond, sans-serif; color: rgb(170, 170, 1=
70); font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-top: 0.5rem;" id=3D"yui_3_1=
6_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49914">Photo: Trailer screenshot</figcaption></div=
></figure><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibi=
lity; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-left: auto; word-b=
reak: break-word; font-size: 17px; line-height: 32px; max-width: 636px;" id=
=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49915">No, it=E2=80=99s not as primal a=
nd gritty, as efficiently&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rende=
ring: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15=
07160346470_49916">cool</em>, as its low-budget predecessor. How could it b=
e, with James Cameron reprogramming one of the most terrifying villains in =
movie history=E2=80=94Arnold Schwarzenegger=E2=80=99s literal killing machi=
ne=E2=80=94into a catchphrase-spouting bodyguard? With&nbsp;<em style=3D"bo=
x-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit=
;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49917">T2</em>, fans had to settle=
 for something different: the platonic ideal of summer blockbusters, a peer=
less big-budget entertainment with brains, brawn, and soul to spare. Camero=
n broke the bank on the set-pieces, which seamlessly blend muscular practic=
al action with early but still-remarkable CGI, most notably in the deadly m=
etallic-goo wizardry of Robert Patrick=E2=80=99s amorphous T-1000. But he a=
lso expanded upon the original=E2=80=99s open questions of fate and destiny=
, and located a strange new poignancy in a not-quite-nuclear family (mother=
, child, time-traveling mechanical father) attempting to stave off nuclear =
annihilation. By the film=E2=80=99s closing act of sacrifice, less guarded =
viewers may struggle to hold back the tears the T-800 could never cry. Corn=
ball catharsis may be an odd substitute for relentless menace, but shouldn=
=E2=80=99t every sequel plot a new future instead of getting stuck in the f=
ranchise past? [A.A. Dowd]<br style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16=
_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49918"></div><h2 style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; marg=
in: 0px auto 1rem; font-family: ProximaNovaCond, sans-serif; font-size: 1.7=
5rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(0, 0=
, 0); max-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49919"><stro=
ng style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym=
19_1_1507160346470_49920">17.&nbsp;<a href=3D"https://film.avclub.com/stars=
hip-troopers-1798220409" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"box-si=
zing: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration-line: none; line-hei=
ght: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(227, 58, 245) 0px -2px 0px inset; transition:=
 color 0.1s ease-out;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49921"><em sty=
le=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height:=
 inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49922">Starship Troopers</=
em></a><em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility=
; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49923">&nbsp=
;</em>(1997)<br style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507=
160346470_49924"></strong></h2><figure style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; max-wi=
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"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49926"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; =
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tion: relative; font-family: ProximaNovaCond, sans-serif; color: rgb(170, 1=
70, 170); font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-top: 0.5rem;" id=3D"yu=
i_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49940">Photo: Trailer screenshot</figcaption>=
</div></figure><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeL=
egibility; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-left: auto; w=
ord-break: break-word; font-size: 17px; line-height: 32px; max-width: 636px=
;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49941">Time has been kind to&nbsp;=
<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-=
height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49942">Starship Tro=
opers</em>, just as&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: =
optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15071603=
46470_49943">Starship Troopers</em>&nbsp;has been very unkind to our time. =
These days, the tongue-in-cheek politics of the film=E2=80=94a bunch of kid=
s from a futuristically Caucasian version of Buenos Aires enthusiastically =
head into a slaughterous battle against giant alien bugs who may not have i=
ntentionally instigated any conflict=E2=80=94veer from darkly funny to plai=
nly chilling. Look no further than the late-movie sight of then-fresh-faced=
 Neil Patrick Harris done up in Third Reich-style duds=E2=80=94a total Paul=
 Verhoeven move that no longer feels as out-there as it did during its init=
ial release. Of course, plenty of 1997 audiences, and even critics, took th=
e movie at face-value (=E2=80=9C<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rend=
ering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1=
507160346470_49944">Melrose Space</em>=E2=80=9D was a common crack at the m=
ovie=E2=80=99s overscrubbed cast of bland normies, plus Jake Busey). The di=
rty secret of&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimi=
zeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_=
49945">Starship Troopers</em>&nbsp;is that plenty of it&nbsp;<em style=3D"b=
ox-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inheri=
t;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49946">does&nbsp;</em>work on a s=
urface level: if not as a feat of ensemble acting, certainly as an intensel=
y gory and quotable&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: =
optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15071603=
46470_49947">Aliens&nbsp;</em>riff (plus Jake Busey). The gnashing war-movi=
e sensations fuel the satire, and vice versa. [Jesse Hassenger]<br style=3D=
"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49948"></div><=
h2 style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1rem; font-family: Proxim=
aNovaCond, sans-serif; font-size: 1.75rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibili=
ty; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); max-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_1=
6_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49949"><strong style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; line-=
height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49950">16.&nbsp;<a =
href=3D"https://film.avclub.com/minority-report-1798197657" target=3D"_blan=
k" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); t=
ext-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(227, 58, 2=
45) 0px -2px 0px inset; transition: color 0.1s ease-out;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_=
ym19_1_1507160346470_49951"><em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-renderin=
g: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15071=
60346470_49952">Minority Report</em></a>&nbsp;(2002)</strong></h2><figure s=
tyle=3D"box-sizing: inherit; max-width: none; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; clea=
r: left;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49953"><div style=3D"box-si=
zing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: =
relative; max-width: 4262px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49954">=
<div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 666.891px;=
" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49955"><span style=3D"box-sizing: i=
nherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; position: relative; clear: both=
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=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; opacity: 0; ; =
top: 8px; left: 8px; width: 32px; min-height: 32px; border-radius: 5px; cur=
sor: pointer; transition: 0.15s; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7); z-in=
dex: 93;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49957"><svg id=3D"yui_3_16_=
0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49958"><use xmlns:xlink=3D"http://www.w3.org/1999/xl=
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49959"><svg viewBox=3D"0 0 18 18" x=3D"1" y=3D"1" width=3D"100%" height=3D"=
100%" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49960"><circle cx=3D"9.5" cy=3D=
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ssive,q_80,w_636/kug3thwnrwbubje5pjnw.jpg" media=3D"(max-width: 599px)" siz=
es=3D"988px" srcset=3D"https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s-=
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rce data-srcset=3D"https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--e1_=
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=3D"(max-width: 799px)" sizes=3D"988px" srcset=3D"https://i.kinja-img.com/g=
awker-media/image/upload/s--e1_zmiCJ--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ku=
g3thwnrwbubje5pjnw.jpg" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym1=
9_1_1507160346470_49965"><source data-srcset=3D"https://i.kinja-img.com/gaw=
ker-media/image/upload/s--w2q6P84Z--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_1600/kug=
3thwnrwbubje5pjnw.jpg" sizes=3D"988px" srcset=3D"https://i.kinja-img.com/ga=
wker-media/image/upload/s--w2q6P84Z--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_1600/ku=
g3thwnrwbubje5pjnw.jpg" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym1=
9_1_1507160346470_49966"><img class=3D"ymail-preserve-class inline-image-gu=
id-b0a3b527-ab9d-841a-558c-75252502f9b0 rte-inline-saved-image" src=3D"cid:=
[email protected]" data-id=3D"inline-image-gui=
d-b0a3b527-ab9d-841a-558c-75252502f9b0" alt=3D"Inline image" style=3D"width=
:100%;max-width:1px;max-height:1px;"><br></picture></span></div><figcaption=
 style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; position: relative; font-family: ProximaNova=
Cond, sans-serif; color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 15px; line-height: =
21px; margin-top: 0.5rem;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49968">Pho=
to: 20th Century-Fox/Getty</figcaption></div></figure><div style=3D"box-siz=
ing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; margin-right: auto; margi=
n-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-left: auto; word-break: break-word; font-size: 17=
px; line-height: 32px; max-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_150716034=
6470_49969">Hollywood=E2=80=99s love affair with Philip K. Dick began with&=
nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; =
line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49970">Blade R=
unner</em>, but it didn=E2=80=99t end there; the 35 years that separate the=
 original from this week=E2=80=99s belated sequel are dotted with adaptatio=
ns of the sci-fi author=E2=80=99s brain-bending work. Planted at the nexus =
of thrilling and thought-provoking,&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; =
text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0=
_ym19_1_1507160346470_49971">Minority Report</em>&nbsp;towers over most of =
them. Like&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeL=
egibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_499=
72">Blade Runner</em>, it=E2=80=99s a heady detective yarn, set in a nightm=
arishly credible tomorrow when criminals are arrested&nbsp;<em style=3D"box=
-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;=
" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49973">before</em>&nbsp;they commit=
 their crimes; Tom Cruise, in dashing&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit=
; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16=
_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49974">Mission: Impossible</em>&nbsp;mode, is the c=
op pitted against his own ethically suspect methodology, running from the l=
aw and a possibly foregone conclusion, otherwise known as fate. The middle =
chapter in Steven Spielberg=E2=80=99s unofficial, early-2000s sci-fi trilog=
y,&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibilit=
y; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49975">Mino=
rity Report</em>reconfigures Dick=E2=80=99s source material into a breathle=
ss chase picture, allowing for some of the coolest set-pieces of the direct=
or=E2=80=99s career, but also for the construction of a future so technolog=
ically plausible that it=E2=80=99s&nbsp;<a href=3D"https://www.salon.com/20=
16/01/15/minority_report_is_coming_true_we_now_have_threat_scores_to_match_=
our_credit_scores_partner/" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"box=
-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration-line: none; line-=
height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(227, 58, 245) 0px -2px 0px inset; transiti=
on: color 0.1s ease-out;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49976">alre=
ady coming true</a>. Even the rosy Spielbergian upshot can=E2=80=99t kill t=
he suggestion that we=E2=80=99re seeing a troubling premonition of now: Tod=
ay, as in&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLe=
gibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_4997=
7">Minority Report</em>, what you only&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inheri=
t; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_1=
6_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49978">might</em>&nbsp;do could get you arrested o=
r worse. [A.A. Dowd]<br style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym1=
9_1_1507160346470_49979"></div><h2 style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0p=
x auto 1rem; font-family: ProximaNovaCond, sans-serif; font-size: 1.75rem; =
text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); =
max-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49980"><strong sty=
le=3D"box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1=
507160346470_49981">15.&nbsp;<a href=3D"https://film.avclub.com/arrival-has=
-arrived-to-probe-your-brain-and-abduct-your-1798189533" target=3D"_blank" =
rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text=
-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(227, 58, 245)=
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9_1_1507160346470_49982"><em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: =
optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15071603=
46470_49983">Arrival</em></a>&nbsp;(2016)<br style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;"=
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=3D"box-sizing: inherit; max-width: none; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; clear: l=
eft;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49985"><div style=3D"box-sizing=
: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: rela=
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splay: block;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_49988"><span style=3D"=
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i_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50000">The fact that it=E2=80=99s been less t=
han a year since it hit theaters may account for this weighty sorta-thrille=
r landing outside of the top 10: There=E2=80=99s a good chance that&nbsp;<e=
m style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-he=
ight: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50001">Arrival&nbsp;<=
/em>could go toe-to-toe with some of the best science fiction ever once som=
e real time has passed. Working from a novella by Ted Chiang,&nbsp;<em styl=
e=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: =
inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50002">Blade Runner 2049</e=
m>&nbsp;director Denis Villeneuve retells the familiar story of an alien ap=
pearance here on earth, only with the far more plausible premise that these=
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by uniformly strong performances (Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner do some of th=
eir best work here),&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering:=
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346470_50003">Arrival</em>tackles a tired subject in a fresh way, emphasizi=
ng the need for communication above all else. It suggests that taking the t=
ime to be respectful of one another, and clearly convey our thoughts and fe=
elings, might literally be the most important thing on Earth (or other plan=
ets), and that=E2=80=99s a message that deserves to resonate with any gener=
ation. [Alex McLevy]<br style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym1=
9_1_1507160346470_50004"></div><h2 style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0p=
x auto 1rem; font-family: ProximaNovaCond, sans-serif; font-size: 1.75rem; =
text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); =
max-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50005">14.&nbsp;<a=
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-anniversary-1798250739#_ga=3D2.236379592.81544716.1506889770-895532060.149=
1529866" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; c=
olor: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; bo=
x-shadow: rgb(227, 58, 245) 0px -2px 0px inset; transition: color 0.1s ease=
-out;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50006"><em style=3D"box-sizing=
: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D=
"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50007">The Fly</em></a>&nbsp;(1986)</h2><f=
igure style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; max-width: none; margin: 0px auto 1.5re=
m; clear: left;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50008"><div style=3D=
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com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--f61CXHz6--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_1=
600/mgdi0ty3kpfijr9i1dr8.jpg" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16=
_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50021"><img class=3D"ymail-preserve-class inline-im=
age-guid-07951c7a-231a-3b71-5893-480df3d173d2 rte-inline-saved-image" src=
=3D"cid:[email protected]" data-id=3D"inline-i=
mage-guid-07951c7a-231a-3b71-5893-480df3d173d2" alt=3D"Inline image" style=
=3D"width:100%;max-width:1px;max-height:1px;"><br></picture></span></div><f=
igcaption style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; position: relative; font-family: Pr=
oximaNovaCond, sans-serif; color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 15px; line=
-height: 21px; margin-top: 0.5rem;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_5=
0023">Photo: 20th Century-Fox/Getty</figcaption></div></figure><div style=
=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; margin-right: =
auto; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-left: auto; word-break: break-word; fo=
nt-size: 17px; line-height: 32px; max-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_=
1_1507160346470_50024">In the annals of mad science, has a god-playing geni=
us ever regretted his own hubris more than Seth Brundle regrets his? Suffer=
ing a mishap with his homemade teleportation device, Brundle accidentally m=
erges his DNA with that of a common housefly, and the day-by-day results ar=
en=E2=80=99t pretty. Of course, there=E2=80=99s much more than a fear of un=
checked ambition to be gleaned from David Cronenberg=E2=80=99s stomach-chur=
ning, heartbreaking remake of a =E2=80=9950s schlock staple. Whether viewed=
 as an early AIDS allegory, a cautionary tale about drug abuse, or some com=
bination of both,&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: op=
timizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346=
470_50025">The Fly</em>creates goopy, grand entertainment from one of life=
=E2=80=99s worst ordeals: helplessly watching as a loved one wastes away. G=
eena Davis, in a star-is-born performance, makes that horror palpable, whil=
e Jeff Goldblum, emoting fiercely under pounds of amazing prosthetics, plug=
s the audience into this crucible of mind-and-body deterioration, infecting=
 us with his fear and disgust and scientific wonder. He=E2=80=99s Frankenst=
ein and the monster rolled into one: a BrundleFly of mankind=E2=80=99s defi=
ance of limits and the sometimes-gruesome consequences of the same. [A.A. D=
owd]<br style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_150716034647=
0_50026"></div><h2 style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1rem; fon=
t-family: ProximaNovaCond, sans-serif; font-size: 1.75rem; text-rendering: =
optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); max-width: 636px=
;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50027"><strong style=3D"box-sizing=
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28">13.&nbsp;<a href=3D"https://film.avclub.com/scarlett-johansson-is-an-al=
ien-seductress-on-the-prowl-1798180015" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" =
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et; transition: color 0.1s ease-out;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470=
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y; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50030">Unde=
r The Skin</em></a><em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimi=
zeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_=
50031">&nbsp;</em>(2013)</strong></h2><figure style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;=
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m19_1_1507160346470_50032"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px a=
uto; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; max-width: 1108px;=
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t-rendering: optimizeLegibility; opacity: 0; ; top: 8px; left: 8px; width: =
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b1c1c422c2" alt=3D"Inline image" style=3D"width:100%;max-width:1px;max-heig=
ht:1px;"><br></picture></span></div><figcaption style=3D"box-sizing: inheri=
t; position: relative; font-family: ProximaNovaCond, sans-serif; color: rgb=
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d=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50047">Photo: Lionsgate</figcaption></=
div></figure><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLeg=
ibility; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-left: auto; wor=
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ing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=
=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50049">Species</em>&nbsp;meets&nbsp;<em=
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ght: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50050">Morvern Callar<=
/em>=E2=80=9D may sound like an odd mix, but writer-director Jonathan Glaze=
r=E2=80=99s adaptation of a Michel Faber novel makes that combo work. Scarl=
ett Johansson gives one of the best performances of her career as a creatur=
e who seduces and consumes lonely men, in docu-realistic footage shot on th=
e sly in nondescript Scottish cities and villages. Every now and then, Glaz=
er strands the audience in the heroine=E2=80=99s spooky extra-dimensional l=
air, which looks like a pool of inky black, dotted with abstract gray blobs=
.&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility=
; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50051">Under=
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udiences to experience both the mundanity of our world and the forbidding d=
arkness of an alien realm through non-human eyes. It=E2=80=99s as mesmerizi=
ng as it is disorienting. [Noel Murray]<br style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" i=
d=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50052"></div><h2 style=3D"box-sizing: =
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_50053">12.&nbsp;<a href=3D"https://film.avclub.com/joaquin-phoenix-courts-=
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line: none; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(227, 58, 245) 0px -2px 0p=
x inset; transition: color 0.1s ease-out;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15071603=
46470_50054"><em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegi=
bility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50055"=
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bility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50056"=
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px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; max-width: 1280px;" id=3D"yui_3_1=
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=3D"Inline image" style=3D"width:100%;max-width:1px;max-height:1px;"><br></=
picture></span></div><figcaption style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; position: re=
lative; font-family: ProximaNovaCond, sans-serif; color: rgb(170, 170, 170)=
; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-top: 0.5rem;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0=
_ym19_1_1507160346470_50072">Photo: Trailer screenshot</figcaption></div></=
figure><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibilit=
y; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-left: auto; word-brea=
k: break-word; font-size: 17px; line-height: 32px; max-width: 636px;" id=3D=
"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50073">Spike Jonze=E2=80=99s Academy Award=
-winning foray into full-scale sci-fi is a contemplation of timeless emotio=
ns and modern technology, anchored by two of our greatest living movie star=
s=E2=80=94one of whom is also today=E2=80=99s versatile genre-film personal=
ity (see above). And Scarlett Johansson doesn=E2=80=99t even appear onscree=
n in&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibil=
ity; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50074">He=
r</em>: She=E2=80=99s the ghost in Joaquin Phoenix=E2=80=99s machines, the =
increasingly sentient OS providing companionship to a divorc=C3=A9 who spen=
ds his days conjuring feelings for total strangers. It=E2=80=99s dystopian =
in premise yet utopian in outlook, its simultaneous awakenings set against =
the backdrops of a globalized L.A., a wordless Arcade Fire record, and cine=
matography that starts out fixated on Phoenix but gradually expands its sco=
pe as he starts seeing beyond himself. In some ways, it=E2=80=99s the anti-=
<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-=
height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50075">Blade Runner=
</em>, the congestion and techno-paranoia of Ridley Scott=E2=80=99s classic=
 flipped to find a protagonist in retro-futurist fashions who=E2=80=99s nev=
er in doubt of his humanity, living in harmony with a female AI discovering=
 (and transcending) her own. [Erik Adams]<br style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;"=
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: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1rem; font-family: ProximaNovaCond, sans-serif;=
 font-size: 1.75rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1.3; =
color: rgb(0, 0, 0); max-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15071603464=
70_50077">11.&nbsp;<a href=3D"https://film.avclub.com/12-monkeys-is-hard-sc=
i-fi-with-a-soft-center-1798233211" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" styl=
e=3D"box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration-line: non=
e; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(227, 58, 245) 0px -2px 0px inset; =
transition: color 0.1s ease-out;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_500=
78"><em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; l=
ine-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50079">12 Monke=
ys</em></a>&nbsp;(1995)</h2><figure style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; max-width=
: none; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; clear: left;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507=
160346470_50080"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; paddi=
ng: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; max-width: 1192px;" id=3D"yu=
i_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50081"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; mar=
gin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 495.969px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_150716034647=
0_50082"><span style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibi=
lity; position: relative; clear: both; display: block;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym=
19_1_1507160346470_50083"><span style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-renderin=
g: optimizeLegibility; opacity: 0; ; top: 8px; left: 8px; width: 32px; min-=
height: 32px; border-radius: 5px; cursor: pointer; transition: 0.15s; backg=
round-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7); z-index: 93;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507=
160346470_50084"><svg id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50085"><use xml=
ns:xlink=3D"http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href=3D"#iconset-zoom-in" i=
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<picture style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15071603464=
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srcset=3D"https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--Nq5Msk_s--/c=
_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/kobgcgynx3pujizmy5ph.png" style=3D"box-siz=
ing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50092"><source data-sr=
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rcset=3D"https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--zO9udl21--/c_=
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ing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50093"><img class=3D"y=
mail-preserve-class inline-image-guid-026e89da-7bab-4942-b393-0549e93b415e =
rte-inline-saved-image" src=3D"cid:491153e6-29c6-00c3-8dfe-1dcf00332f77@yah=
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alt=3D"Inline image" style=3D"width:100%;max-width:1px;max-height:1px;"><br=
></picture></span></div><figcaption style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; position:=
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70); font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-top: 0.5rem;" id=3D"yui_3_1=
6_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50095">Photo: Screenshot</figcaption></div></figur=
e><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; ma=
rgin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-left: auto; word-break: br=
eak-word; font-size: 17px; line-height: 32px; max-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_=
3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50096">Terry Gilliam=E2=80=99s era-traversing t=
hriller has all the elements of a science-fiction slam dunk: time travel, a=
 dystopian future, a killer virus, Bruce Willis. As post-apocalyptic convic=
t James Cole, Willis travels from a very Gilliam-esque steampunk bunker in =
the near future to try and figure out the origin of the disease that nearly=
 destroyed humanity. His trip goes sideways, naturally, as he meets a skept=
ical scientist (Madeleine Stowe) who later becomes his kidnappee, then his =
Stockholm syndrome ally, and a mental patient (Brad Pitt, in his first Osca=
r-nominated role) who leads the story in new directions. But it=E2=80=99s&n=
bsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; l=
ine-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50097">12 Monke=
ys</em>=E2=80=99 twisty narrative=E2=80=94inspired by Chris Marker=E2=80=99=
s short-form stunner =E2=80=9CLa Jetee=E2=80=9D=E2=80=94that makes&nbsp;<em=
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ght: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50098">12 Monkeys</em>=
a classic. Gilliam=E2=80=99s version was written, perhaps not coincidentall=
y, by Janet and David Peoples, the latter of whom penned the masterpiece th=
at inspired this very list. [Josh Modell]<br style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;"=
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: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1rem; font-family: ProximaNovaCond, sans-serif;=
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color: rgb(0, 0, 0); max-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15071603464=
70_50100"><strong style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;" id=
=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50101">10.&nbsp;<a href=3D"https://film=
.avclub.com/contrary-to-popular-opinion-spielberg-found-the-perfec-17982786=
49" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; color:=
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dow: rgb(227, 58, 245) 0px -2px 0px inset; transition: color 0.1s ease-out;=
" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50102"><em style=3D"box-sizing: inh=
erit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_=
3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50103">A.I. Artificial Intelligence</em></a>&nb=
sp;(2001)</strong></h2><figure style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; max-width: non=
e; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; clear: left;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_150716034=
6470_50104"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0=
px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; max-width: 1920px;" id=3D"yui_3_1=
6_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50105"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: =
0px; padding: 0px 0px 556.234px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_501=
06"><span style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;=
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timizeLegibility; opacity: 0; ; top: 8px; left: 8px; width: 32px; min-heigh=
t: 32px; border-radius: 5px; cursor: pointer; transition: 0.15s; background=
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6470_50108"><svg id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50109"><use xmlns:xl=
ink=3D"http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href=3D"#iconset-zoom-in" id=3D"=
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ure style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50=
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t=3D"https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--8oEiSylg--/c_scal=
e,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/svuf5qyozrlqioc2tfry.jpg" style=3D"box-sizing: =
inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50116"><source data-srcset=
=3D"https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--NhhN4nSK--/c_scale=
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t=3D"https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--NhhN4nSK--/c_scal=
e,fl_progressive,q_80,w_1600/svuf5qyozrlqioc2tfry.jpg" style=3D"box-sizing:=
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om" data-id=3D"inline-image-guid-b37c471f-b005-5dc4-0c8d-0ed5f2de4db2" alt=
=3D"Inline image" style=3D"width:100%;max-width:1px;max-height:1px;"><br></=
picture></span></div><figcaption style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; position: re=
lative; font-family: ProximaNovaCond, sans-serif; color: rgb(170, 170, 170)=
; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-top: 0.5rem;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0=
_ym19_1_1507160346470_50119">Photo: Trailer screenshot</figcaption></div></=
figure><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibilit=
y; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-left: auto; word-brea=
k: break-word; font-size: 17px; line-height: 32px; max-width: 636px;" id=3D=
"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50120">Steven Spielberg=E2=80=99s thoughtf=
ul and profoundly sad fairytale about a childlike android (Haley Joel Osmen=
t) who wants to become a real boy is about as dark as a special effects fan=
tasy can get without betraying its core principle of wonder. Programmed to =
yearn for his adopted human mother=E2=80=99s love, little David travels thr=
ough the garish neon metropolises, drowned downtowns, and robot demolition =
derbies of the future in search of Pinocchio=E2=80=99s Blue Fairy, accompan=
ied by a fugitive sex-borg (a pitch-perfect Jude Law) and a super-intellige=
nt teddy bear. Stanley Kubrick originally developed the project, but&nbsp;<=
em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-h=
eight: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50121">A.I</em>. is =
a movie that only Spielberg could create. (It=E2=80=99s also one of only tw=
o scripts that he=E2=80=99s written for himself to direct; the other is&nbs=
p;<a href=3D"https://film.avclub.com/close-encounters-of-the-third-kind-30t=
h-anniversary-ul-1798203490" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"bo=
x-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration-line: none; line=
-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(227, 58, 245) 0px -2px 0px inset; transit=
ion: color 0.1s ease-out;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50122"><em=
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ght: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50123">Close Encounter=
s Of The Third Kind</em></a>.) The most delicate of sci-fi masterpieces, it=
 concerns itself with the world we leave behind, discovering humanity in ou=
r last traces; the deeply moving ending is its own Voight-Kampff test. [Ign=
atiy Vishnevetsky]<br style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_=
1_1507160346470_50124"></div><h2 style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px =
auto 1rem; font-family: ProximaNovaCond, sans-serif; font-size: 1.75rem; te=
xt-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ma=
x-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50125"><strong style=
=3D"box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_150=
7160346470_50126">9.&nbsp;<a href=3D"https://film.avclub.com/with-fury-road=
-mad-max-roars-triumphantly-back-into-th-1798183780" target=3D"_blank" rel=
=3D"noopener" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-de=
coration-line: none; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(227, 58, 245) 0p=
x -2px 0px inset; transition: color 0.1s ease-out;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1=
_1507160346470_50127"><em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: opt=
imizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15071603464=
70_50128">Mad Max: Fury Road</em></a>&nbsp;(2015)</strong></h2><figure styl=
e=3D"box-sizing: inherit; max-width: none; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; clear: =
left;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50129"><div style=3D"box-sizin=
g: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: rel=
ative; max-width: 1280px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50130"><di=
v style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 556.234px;" i=
d=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50131"><span style=3D"box-sizing: inhe=
rit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; position: relative; clear: both; d=
isplay: block;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50132"><span style=3D=
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: 93;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50133"><svg id=3D"yui_3_16_0_y=
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d-a8e9804e-45ce-7de4-4a65-f78602734d46" alt=3D"Inline image" style=3D"width=
:100%;max-width:1px;max-height:1px;"><br></picture></span></div><figcaption=
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Cond, sans-serif; color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 15px; line-height: =
21px; margin-top: 0.5rem;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50144">Pho=
to: Trailer screenshot</figcaption></div></figure><div style=3D"box-sizing:=
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ttom: 1.25rem; margin-left: auto; word-break: break-word; font-size: 17px; =
line-height: 32px; max-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470=
_50145">George Miller=E2=80=99s feature-length chase scene (give or take a =
couple of rest stops) envisions the fluid, mythical post-apocalyptic settin=
g of the anthology-like&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-renderi=
ng: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507=
160346470_50146">Mad Max&nbsp;</em>series as a wasteland ruled by humanity=
=E2=80=99s earliest wrongs. Reimagined as a traumatized veteran, Max Rockat=
ansky (Tom Hardy, taking over the role previously played by Mel Gibson) bec=
omes the reluctant ally of the one-armed truck pilot Furiosa (Charlize Ther=
on) as she leads a harem of young beauties to a half-remembered society of =
women, pursued by the patriarchal death cult of Immortan Joe and his War Bo=
ys. The metal-twisting, pyrotechnic vehicular carnage is consistently exhil=
arating=E2=80=94=E2=80=9Cpure=E2=80=9D action at its most gloriously over-t=
he-top. But the thrill of escape takes on a different meaning here; while s=
cience fiction traditionally looks to the future,&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-siz=
ing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=
=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50147">Fury Road&nbsp;</em>is all about=
 the eternal past, racing to catch up in the rear-view mirror. [Ignatiy Vis=
hnevetsky]<br style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_150716=
0346470_50148"></div><h2 style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1re=
m; font-family: ProximaNovaCond, sans-serif; font-size: 1.75rem; text-rende=
ring: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); max-width:=
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tps://film.avclub.com/the-new-cult-canon-primer-1798213694" target=3D"_blan=
k" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); t=
ext-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(227, 58, 2=
45) 0px -2px 0px inset; transition: color 0.1s ease-out;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_=
ym19_1_1507160346470_50150"><em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-renderin=
g: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15071=
60346470_50151">Primer</em></a>&nbsp;(2004)</h2><figure style=3D"box-sizing=
: inherit; max-width: none; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; clear: left;" id=3D"yu=
i_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50152"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; mar=
gin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; max-widt=
h: 1280px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50153"><div style=3D"box-=
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sition: 0.15s; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7); z-index: 93;" id=3D"yu=
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_50164"><source data-srcset=3D"https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/u=
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c.jpg" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470=
_50165"><img class=3D"ymail-preserve-class inline-image-guid-5ae0039d-18e8-=
c8ee-3aee-c48d45779e65 rte-inline-saved-image" src=3D"cid:54f79833-d799-411=
[email protected]" data-id=3D"inline-image-guid-5ae0039d-18e8-c=
8ee-3aee-c48d45779e65" alt=3D"Inline image" style=3D"width:100%;max-width:1=
px;max-height:1px;"><br></picture></span></div><figcaption style=3D"box-siz=
ing: inherit; position: relative; font-family: ProximaNovaCond, sans-serif;=
 color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-top:=
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nshot</figcaption></div></figure><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-re=
ndering: optimizeLegibility; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; ma=
rgin-left: auto; word-break: break-word; font-size: 17px; line-height: 32px=
; max-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50168">Opinions =
of Shane Carruth=E2=80=99s no-budget debut (which unexpectedly won the dram=
atic prize at Sundance) tend to be sharply divided, depending upon whether =
one finds its recursive narrative challenging or simply impenetrable. There=
=E2=80=99s certainly no denying that it puts the =E2=80=9Cscience=E2=80=9D =
in science fiction.&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: =
optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15071603=
46470_50169">Primer</em>=E2=80=99s dual protagonists, Aaron (Carruth) and A=
be (David Sullivan), are engineers, and they&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: =
inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"y=
ui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50170">talk&nbsp;</em>like engineers, withou=
t bothering to explain themselves for an audience of laymen; the film=E2=80=
=99s dialogue is a torrent of jargon, meant to be experienced as a disorien=
ting whole rather than processed line by line. Equally cryptic are the char=
acters=E2=80=99 motivations, about which Carruth provides only hints. All t=
hat can be stated with confidence is that Aaron and Abe, while working on a=
 side project in Aaron=E2=80=99s garage, accidentally invent a limited form=
 of time travel into the past, and that a combination of ego and paranoia l=
eads to multiple versions of both men existing simultaneously. Fans have cr=
eated elaborate, brain-numbing diagrams that attempt to work out exactly wh=
at happens, but the film=E2=80=99s genius lies in its cerebral embrace of u=
ncertainty, along with Carruth=E2=80=99s precise visual sense and his almos=
t quixotic faith in the viewer to keep up. [Mike D=E2=80=99Angelo]<br style=
=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50171"></di=
v><h2 style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1rem; font-family: Pro=
ximaNovaCond, sans-serif; font-size: 1.75rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegib=
ility; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); max-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_=
3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50172"><strong style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; li=
ne-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50173">7.&nbsp;<=
a href=3D"https://film.avclub.com/wall-e-1798204497" target=3D"_blank" rel=
=3D"noopener" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-de=
coration-line: none; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(227, 58, 245) 0p=
x -2px 0px inset; transition: color 0.1s ease-out;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1=
_1507160346470_50174"><em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: opt=
imizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15071603464=
70_50175">WALL-E</em></a><em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: =
optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15071603=
46470_50176">&nbsp;</em>(2008)<br style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_=
3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50177"></strong></h2><figure style=3D"box-sizin=
g: inherit; max-width: none; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; clear: left;" id=3D"y=
ui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50178"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; ma=
rgin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; max-wid=
th: 4063px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50179"><div style=3D"box=
-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 409.031px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_=
0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50180"><span style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rend=
ering: optimizeLegibility; position: relative; clear: both; display: block;=
" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50181"><span style=3D"box-sizing: i=
nherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; opacity: 0; ; top: 8px; left: 8=
px; width: 32px; min-height: 32px; border-radius: 5px; cursor: pointer; tra=
nsition: 0.15s; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7); z-index: 93;" id=3D"y=
ui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50182"><svg id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15071603=
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cset=3D"https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--cfkEoXPe--/c_f=
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,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/fejsipzdqzjda9hgraby.jpg" media=3D"(max-width: 7=
99px)" sizes=3D"988px" srcset=3D"https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image=
/upload/s--fG9cVBhT--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/fejsipzdqzjda9hgrab=
y.jpg" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470=
_50190"><source data-srcset=3D"https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/u=
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.jpg" sizes=3D"988px" srcset=3D"https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/=
upload/s--SrTZhDA---/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_1600/fejsipzdqzjda9hgrab=
y.jpg" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470=
_50191"><img class=3D"ymail-preserve-class inline-image-guid-27e59dae-bc5c-=
19a3-2da2-97e951e90904 rte-inline-saved-image" src=3D"cid:03e01ba3-aaf3-0c2=
[email protected]" data-id=3D"inline-image-guid-27e59dae-bc5c-1=
9a3-2da2-97e951e90904" alt=3D"Inline image" style=3D"width:100%;max-width:1=
px;max-height:1px;"><br></picture></span></div><figcaption style=3D"box-siz=
ing: inherit; position: relative; font-family: ProximaNovaCond, sans-serif;=
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nshot</figcaption></div></figure><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-re=
ndering: optimizeLegibility; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; ma=
rgin-left: auto; word-break: break-word; font-size: 17px; line-height: 32px=
; max-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50194">Let=E2=80=
=99s talk about the opening stretch of&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inheri=
t; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_1=
6_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50195">WALL-E</em>, in which the exacting geniuses=
 at Pixar introduce their bleak premise: In the far-flung (but perhaps not =
quite distant) future, a garbage-saturated Earth is no longer inhabited by =
humans=E2=80=94just a single trash-collecting robot chipping away at endles=
s, impossible clean-up duty with a side of slapstick misadventures. In mere=
 minutes, the movie establishes a chilling vision of our planet=E2=80=99s f=
uture, and does so in silent-comedy language that barely-verbal children mi=
ght still understand. But let=E2=80=99s also talk about the rest of&nbsp;<e=
m style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-he=
ight: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50196">WALL-E</em>, t=
he part of the movie sometimes unfairly maligned as a comedown from that ma=
gnificent opening. Once WALL-E winds up on the&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing=
: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D=
"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50197">Axiom</em>, a massive spaceship on =
an endless cruise, the movie deepens its critique of consumerism run amok v=
ia devolved, blobbed-out humans no longer programmed to think or even walk =
for themselves. At the same time, it finds gentle poetry in a romance of so=
rts between two machines who may be cute but are never cheaply humanoid. Pi=
xar may attempt to solve humanity=E2=80=99s problems with a series of elabo=
rate action sequences, but when this involves the best robot chases this si=
de of a&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegi=
bility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50198"=
>Terminator</em>movie, it=E2=80=99s hard to complain. The opening creates a=
 world, but the whole movie tells a story. [Jesse Hassenger]<br style=3D"bo=
x-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50199"></div><h2 =
style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1rem; font-family: ProximaNo=
vaCond, sans-serif; font-size: 1.75rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;=
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_ym19_1_1507160346470_50200"><strong style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; line-hei=
ght: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50201">6.&nbsp;<a href=
=3D"https://film.avclub.com/children-of-men-1798202278" target=3D"_blank" r=
el=3D"noopener" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-=
decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(227, 58, 245) =
0px -2px 0px inset; transition: color 0.1s ease-out;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19=
_1_1507160346470_50202"><em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: o=
ptimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_150716034=
6470_50203">Children Of Men</em></a><em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-=
rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19=
_1_1507160346470_50204">&nbsp;</em>(2006)</strong></h2><figure style=3D"box=
-sizing: inherit; max-width: none; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; clear: left;" i=
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tant talk of the most pertinent or prescient dystopian visions. Alfonso Cua=
r=C3=B3n=E2=80=99s&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: o=
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n reproductive rights. But the movie is more than the sum of its political =
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e future, when human civilization is basically in its death throes=E2=80=94=
and that=E2=80=99s just in the first few minutes. From there, Clive Owen=E2=
=80=99s Theo must find a way to shepherd the first pregnant woman in years =
across a war-torn England, evading factions who would use her unborn child =
to further their own agendas. Owen, Julianne Moore, and Michael Caine all d=
eliver gut-wrenching performances, and the use of elaborate, unbroken long =
takes develops a cinematic language as powerful as its emotional one. [Dane=
tte Chavez]<br style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15071=
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id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50225">&nbsp;Back To The Future</em>&=
nbsp;(1985)</h2><figure style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; max-width: none; marg=
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v style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; margin-=
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ed DeLorean defies quantum physics to travel back in time, paying blithe li=
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0243">Back To The Future</em>&nbsp;remains our most beloved modern time-tra=
vel story, as responsible as Doc Brown=E2=80=99s heroes Jules Verne and H.G=
. Wells for popularizing the basic concepts and causalities of messing arou=
nd with our destinies. Meanwhile, its sequel continues to be the most widel=
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erboard articles attests. All told,&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; =
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ssover success performed the equally improbable feat of making science fict=
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86)</h2><figure style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; max-width: none; margin: 0px =
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"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50261"><source data-srcset=3D"https://i.ki=
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,q_80,w_1600/zbuakjrwrixhzcfzvbxj.jpg" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D=
"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50262"><img class=3D"ymail-preserve-class =
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nline-image-guid-00fb4130-183c-5342-1006-2eeb5fc27520" alt=3D"Inline image"=
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ly: ProximaNovaCond, sans-serif; color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 15px=
; line-height: 21px; margin-top: 0.5rem;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_150716034=
6470_50264">Photo: Stanley Bielecki Movie Collection/Getty</figcaption></di=
v></figure><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegib=
ility; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-left: auto; word-=
break: break-word; font-size: 17px; line-height: 32px; max-width: 636px;" i=
d=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50265">If there=E2=80=99s a glimmer of=
 hope that James Cameron won=E2=80=99t be wasting his talent with four more=
 rounds of&nbsp;<a href=3D"https://film.avclub.com/avatar-1798207657" targe=
t=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(34, =
34, 34); text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(=
227, 58, 245) 0px -2px 0px inset; transition: color 0.1s ease-out;" id=3D"y=
ui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50266"><em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; tex=
t-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym=
19_1_1507160346470_50267">Avatar</em></a>, it lies in the knowledge that th=
is maestro of blockbusters is also, generally speaking, a master of sequels=
. The director knew how to expand his stone-cold&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizi=
ng: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=
=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50268">Terminator</em>&nbsp;into an awe=
some multiplex epic. Before that, he achieved the even more daunting feat o=
f pulling a new sci-fi classic out of the shadow of an old one. Rather than=
 try to replicate the glacial deep-space dread of a Ridley Scott movie argu=
ably even better than&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering=
: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_150716=
0346470_50269">Blade Runner</em>,&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; te=
xt-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_y=
m19_1_1507160346470_50270">Aliens</em>&nbsp;stomps on the gas, stranding an=
 unfrozen Ripley (tough-as-nails Sigourney Weaver) on an outpost crawling w=
ith acid-bleeding creatures, alongside a platoon of over-armed but severely=
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des since can match&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: =
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46470_50271">Aliens</em>&nbsp;for sheer adrenaline-junkie intensity, but th=
ere=E2=80=99s something affecting about its emotional arc, too=E2=80=94abou=
t the way Cameron turns the d=C3=A9j=C3=A0 vu storytelling logic of sequels=
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bsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; l=
ine-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50272">Alien</e=
m>&nbsp;(and the loss of her daughter) by rushing back into the monster-bla=
sting fray. It=E2=80=99s not a redo. It=E2=80=99s a rebirth, bursting blood=
y and triumphant from the cold body of a perfect genre specimen. [A.A. Dowd=
]<br style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_5=
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id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50274">3.&nbsp;<a href=3D"https://fil=
m.avclub.com/brazil-1798220811" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D=
"box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration-line: none; l=
ine-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(227, 58, 245) 0px -2px 0px inset; tran=
sition: color 0.1s ease-out;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50275">=
<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-=
height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50276">Brazil</em><=
/a>&nbsp;(1985)</h2><figure style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; max-width: none; =
margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; clear: left;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_150716034647=
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zeLegibility; opacity: 0; ; top: 8px; left: 8px; width: 32px; min-height: 3=
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or: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7); z-index: 93;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470=
_50281"><svg id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50282"><use xmlns:xlink=
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=3D"https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--muYsUvvX--/c_scale=
,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/sahv8gtvledy7dkve6wa.jpg" style=3D"box-sizing: i=
nherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50289"><source data-srcset=
=3D"https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--VcH-kPvK--/c_scale=
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t=3D"https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--VcH-kPvK--/c_scal=
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om" data-id=3D"inline-image-guid-afdb59a7-d909-7ab7-96ec-433e69ff3b14" alt=
=3D"Inline image" style=3D"width:100%;max-width:1px;max-height:1px;"><br></=
picture></span></div><figcaption style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; position: re=
lative; font-family: ProximaNovaCond, sans-serif; color: rgb(170, 170, 170)=
; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-top: 0.5rem;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0=
_ym19_1_1507160346470_50292">Photo: Embassy International Pictures/Sunset B=
oulevard/Corbis/Getty</figcaption></div></figure><div style=3D"box-sizing: =
inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; margin-right: auto; margin-bot=
tom: 1.25rem; margin-left: auto; word-break: break-word; font-size: 17px; l=
ine-height: 32px; max-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_=
50293">Terry Gilliam=E2=80=99s dystopian vision, which he considered titlin=
g&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility=
; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50294">1984<=
/em>=C2=BD, so confounded Universal Pictures that it nearly wound up being =
shelved; only after the Los Angeles Film Critics Association named&nbsp;<em=
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ght: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50295">Brazil</em>&nbs=
p;the year=E2=80=99s best film=E2=80=94based on secret, unauthorized screen=
ings=E2=80=94did the studio finally relent and release it. Despite clear Or=
wellian parallels, they=E2=80=99d somehow expected something more conventio=
nally heroic from this tale of a Walter Mitty-ish bureaucrat (Jonathan Pryc=
e) who fantasizes about rebelling against the totalitarian system he helps =
to administer. Gilliam instead delivered a merrily bleak portrait of amoral=
 dysfunction, mixing absurdist comedy with nightmarish imagery in truly uns=
ettling ways. Nor does&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-renderin=
g: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15071=
60346470_50296">Brazil</em>&nbsp;offer an escape by way of pure spectacle=
=E2=80=94while the conception of its alternate world is visually astonishin=
g (especially for its relatively low budget), Gilliam shrewdly challenges s=
ci-fi orthodoxy by rooting extrapolations of the future in antiquated aspec=
ts of the past. Even the title, which refers to a popular romantic song wri=
tten in 1939, seems designed to foster cognitive dissonance. The result is =
a movie so recklessly singular that it came dangerously close to never bein=
g seen in its intended form. [Mike D=E2=80=99Angelo]<br style=3D"box-sizing=
: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50297"></div><h2 style=3D=
"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1rem; font-family: ProximaNovaCond, =
sans-serif; font-size: 1.75rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-he=
ight: 1.3; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); max-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_=
1507160346470_50298">2.&nbsp;<a href=3D"https://film.avclub.com/the-matrix-=
hacked-hollywood-upgrading-american-action-1798261062" target=3D"_blank" re=
l=3D"noopener" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-d=
ecoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(227, 58, 245) 0=
px -2px 0px inset; transition: color 0.1s ease-out;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_=
1_1507160346470_50299"><em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: op=
timizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346=
470_50300">The Matrix</em></a>&nbsp;(1999)</h2><figure style=3D"box-sizing:=
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_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50301"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; marg=
in: 0px auto; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; max-width=
: 905px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50302"><div style=3D"box-si=
zing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 478.734px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_y=
m19_1_1507160346470_50303"><span style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-renderi=
ng: optimizeLegibility; position: relative; clear: both; display: block;" i=
d=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50304"><span style=3D"box-sizing: inhe=
rit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; opacity: 0; ; top: 8px; left: 8px;=
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tion: 0.15s; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7); z-index: 93;" id=3D"yui_=
3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50305"><svg id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15071603464=
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13"><source data-srcset=3D"https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/uploa=
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14"><img class=3D"ymail-preserve-class inline-image-guid-c767a4cb-71ab-8a7f=
-697e-1cb5c3def2c9 rte-inline-saved-image" src=3D"cid:6ff24df7-27cd-3777-a2=
[email protected]" data-id=3D"inline-image-guid-c767a4cb-71ab-8a7f-=
697e-1cb5c3def2c9" alt=3D"Inline image" style=3D"width:100%;max-width:1px;m=
ax-height:1px;"><br></picture></span></div><figcaption style=3D"box-sizing:=
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or: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-top: 0.5=
rem;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50316">Photo: Getty/Ronald Siem=
oneit</figcaption></div></figure><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-re=
ndering: optimizeLegibility; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; ma=
rgin-left: auto; word-break: break-word; font-size: 17px; line-height: 32px=
; max-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50317">A pastich=
e of influences and references (Hong Kong action,&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-siz=
ing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=
=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50318">Alice In Wonderland</em>, anime,=
&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;=
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zard Of Oz</em>, body horror, etc., etc.) wrapped in greenish tints, underg=
rad philosophy and memorable special effects, the Wachowskis=E2=80=99 break=
through became a cultural touchstone and a massive, influential box-office =
hit by striking an unlikely balance between style and substance. It seems t=
o have something for everyone. The premise=E2=80=94reality as a simulation =
created by sinister machines=E2=80=94is versatile enough to fit any reading=
 across the political spectrum, but the subtexts of identity and self-disco=
very are deeply personal. Every ambitious sci-fi film made since the 1980s =
is, in some elementary way, about the genre itself.&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-s=
izing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" =
id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50320">The Matrix&nbsp;</em>takes its=
 possibilities=E2=80=94as gee-whiz effects spectacle, allegory, secular min=
d-blower, escapist fantasy=E2=80=94and fashions them into a worldview. [Ign=
atiy Vishnevetsky]<br style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_=
1_1507160346470_50321"></div><h2 style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px =
auto 1rem; font-family: ProximaNovaCond, sans-serif; font-size: 1.75rem; te=
xt-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ma=
x-width: 636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50322">1.&nbsp;<a hr=
ef=3D"https://film.avclub.com/we-close-this-column-with-eternal-sunshine-an=
d-its-endi-1798258720" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"box-sizi=
ng: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration-line: none; line-heigh=
t: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(227, 58, 245) 0px -2px 0px inset; transition: c=
olor 0.1s ease-out;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50323"><em style=
=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: i=
nherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50324">Eternal Sunshine Of T=
he Spotless Mind</em></a>&nbsp;(2004)</h2><figure style=3D"box-sizing: inhe=
rit; max-width: none; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; clear: left;" id=3D"yui_3_16=
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px auto; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; max-width: 120=
1px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50326"><div style=3D"box-sizing=
: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 528.578px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_=
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zes=3D"988px" srcset=3D"https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s=
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[email protected]" data-id=3D"inline-image-guid-1b2b4f53-581a-ab07-1a57-=
7b9aef5c12bc" alt=3D"Inline image" style=3D"width:100%;max-width:1px;max-he=
ight:1px;"><br></picture></span></div><figcaption style=3D"box-sizing: inhe=
rit; position: relative; font-family: ProximaNovaCond, sans-serif; color: r=
gb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-top: 0.5rem;"=
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tion></div></figure><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: opti=
mizeLegibility; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-left: au=
to; word-break: break-word; font-size: 17px; line-height: 32px; max-width: =
636px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507160346470_50341">At its best, science f=
iction is a mirror. It shows us not just other planets, other eras, and oth=
er species, but also ourselves, refracted through the smoke screen of impos=
sible conceits and creative prognostication. Directed by impish French dayd=
reamer Michel Gondry, from a brilliant script by the mad genius screenwrite=
r Charlie Kaufman,&nbsp;<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: o=
ptimizeLegibility; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_150716034=
6470_50342">Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind</em>&nbsp;fulfills the fu=
ll potential of the genre as a window into human experience, all while func=
tioning as maybe the quintessentially funny-poignant love story of 21st-cen=
tury cinema. Just the premise alone might have triggered all the synapses i=
n Philip K. Dick=E2=80=99s noggin. On the receiving end of an especially br=
utal breakup, introverted sadsack Joel (a perfectly cast-against-type Jim C=
arrey) pays a team of cerebral janitors to wipe away all mental traces of t=
he dead relationship. But as memories disappear into the void, Joel has sec=
ond thoughts about forgetting it all, and begins scrambling through his own=
 subconscious, trying to hide extroverted ex Clementine (Kate Winslet, in w=
hat essentially amounts to a plum dual role) in the deepest folds and reces=
ses of his brain. Gondry and Kaufman turn the Lacuna, Inc. procedure into a=
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