Sci-Fi Movies · 2000s Ranked
Best Sci-Fi Movies of the 2000s, Ranked by IQ Score
The decade sci-fi cinema took its philosophical material seriously. Ranked by IQ Score.
The 2000s in sci-fi cinema is the decade the genre took its philosophical material seriously again, after the 1990s effects-driven peak. Children of Men (2006), Eternal Sunshine (2004), Wall-E (2008) and District 9 (2009) all operated inside sci-fi register with serious-drama structural ambition.
Anchor picks: Children of Men at Masterclass is the canonical 2000s sci-fi-drama. Wall-E is the canonical animated-sci-fi entry. Minority Report (2002) anticipated 2010s gestural-UI tech. A.I. (2001) is the catalog's Spielberg-Kubrick-collaboration canonical entry.
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