Sci-Fi

The Vast of Night

By Josh Slater-Williams

Andrew Patterson’s incredible debut feels like a spiritual successor to Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

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Vivarium

By Max Copeman

Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg become trapped in a suburban nightmare in this metaphor-laden domestic horror.

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Color Out of Space

By Kambole Campbell

Nicolas Cage encounters an unholy cosmic terror in director Richard Stanley’s HP Lovecraft adaptation.

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Little Joe

By David Jenkins

A botanist develops a revolutionary new plant in Jessica Hausner’s sci-fi tinged social parable.

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Lucy in the Sky

By Hannah Strong

Astronaut Natalie Portman struggles to adapt to life back on earth in Noah Hawley’s dull space drama.

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Promare

By Kambole Campbell

Pyrokinetic mutants, shirtless firefighters and eco-fascists collide in the first feature film from Studio Trigger.

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Terminator: Dark Fate

By Matt Thrift

New model, same result: Cameron, Schwarzenegger and Hamilton reunite for this serviceable belated sequel to T2.

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Gemini Man

By Hannah Strong

Will Smith goes mano-a-mano with his younger self in director Ang Lee’s exhilarating action spectacle.

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Ad Astra

By David Jenkins

James Gray hits the jackpot by sending a never-better Brad Pitt on a voyage of discovery to the outer edges of the solar system.

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Spider-Man: Far From Home

By Adam Woodward

After the events of Endgame, the world needs a new hero. And Jake Gyllenhaal’s Mysterio is ready to answer the call.

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Brightburn

By Charles Bramesco

A bad seed crash-lands to earth in this darkly entertaining riff on the Superman legend.

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X-Men: Dark Phoenix

By Kambole Campbell

Sophie Turner’s Jean Grey becomes fused with a cosmic entity in this lacklustre series add-on.

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High Life

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

Claire Denis contemplates existence, evolution and survival in deep space with Robert Pattinson and Juliette Binoche.

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Love, Death & Robots

By Charles Bramesco

This NSFW animated anthology sees Tim Miller and David Fincher team up to disastrous effect.

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Captain Marvel

By Hannah Strong

Brie Larson is great as Carol Danvers, but we’d hoped for slightly more from Marvel’s first female solo superhero movie.

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Serenity

By Adam Woodward

LWLies intercepts a telecommunication between Matthew McConaughey and his agent.

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Alita: Battle Angel

By David Jenkins

Robert Rodriguez’s latest is that rare beast: a throwback, effects-driven science fiction epic that runs on an infectious sense of fun.

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