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Sci-Fi Movies · 2010s Ranked

Best Sci-Fi Movies of the 2010s, Ranked by IQ Score

The decade sci-fi cinema reckoned with the AI question. Ranked by IQ Score.

The 2010s in sci-fi cinema is the decade the genre confronted the AI question at scale. Her (2013), Ex Machina (2014), and Blade Runner 2049 (2017) all rendered AI-consciousness as actual philosophical subject, within twelve years of one another.

Anchor picks: Arrival (2016) is the catalog's most-canonical linguistics-as-sci-fi entry. Annihilation (2018) is Alex Garland's most-formally-ambitious work. Interstellar (2014) at 189 is among the highest-scoring films in the entire TVI database. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) is the canonical genre-action entry of the decade.

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