The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)

The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)

[6] Keanu Reeves (Speed, The Matrix) stars as Klaatu, an alien visiting Earth to assess whether humanity deserves to live or die in this remake of the 1951 atomic-age classic. Humanity's potential for atomic annihilation takes a more ecological bent in the…
Rollerball (1975)

Rollerball (1975)

[7] In this dystopian sci-fi tale, James Caan plays the star player in a global, corporate-sponsored game called 'Rollerball'. It's televised all over the world and very popular, combining elements of hockey, football, and basketball, in a bowl-shaped arena. Some players are…
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

[7] Writer/director Steven Spielberg follows up his immensely successful Jaws with this tale of extra-terrestrials and government conspiracy. Richard Dreyfuss stars as a family man whose encounter with a UFO brings him into contact with a grieving mother (Melinda Dillon) whose young…
Minority Report (2002)

Minority Report (2002)

[8] Steven Spielberg directs Tom Cruise in this taut adaptation of Philip K. Dick's sci-fi novelette set in 2054, when cops are able to use the visions of three uniquely gifted people called 'precogs' to arrest criminals before they commit their crimes.…
Frankenstein (2025)

Frankenstein (2025)

[7] Director Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water, Pan's Labyrinth) puts his cinematic stamp on Mary Shelley's formative sci-fi novel, casting Oscar Isaac (Dune: Part One, Annihilation) as the obsessed Victor Frankenstein who brings an assembly of dead body parts to…
Predator: Badlands (2025)

Predator: Badlands (2025)

[7] Director Dan Trachtenberg (10 Cloverfield Lane, Prey) leads the Predator franchise in a bold new, character-driven direction with Predator: Badlands. Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi stars (under digital makeup) as Dek, the film's title hunter, a runt whose ruthless father tries to kill him…
Moonraker (1979)

Moonraker (1979)

[5] Heavily influenced by the success of Star Wars a few years prior, James Bond (Roger Moore) blasts into outer space to foil a bad guy's scheme to eradicate all human life on Earth. While Moonraker made a lot of money and…
Bugonia (2025)

Bugonia (2025)

[6] Two cousins (Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis) kidnap a famous pharmaceutical CEO (Emma Stone) because they believe she is an alien intent on harming humankind. Director Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth, The Favourite) makes the deranged cousins sympathetic and the CEO unlikable, but…
A Quiet Place Part II (2020)

A Quiet Place Part II (2020)

[6] Director/co-writer/actor John Krasinski serves up another helping of his intimate and suspenseful alien apocalypse story. The sequel begins with a flashback sequence of the day the aliens came to earth and began decimating the world's population. Krasinski appears in this flashback…
Outland (1981)

Outland (1981)

[4] Sean Connery stars in this middling conspiracy thriller set on one of Jupiter's moons. Connery plays the new head policeman at a titanium mining facility where some of the workers have begun losing their minds and endangering lives. When his investigation…