![]() It looks great, it raises big ideas, it thrills and terrifies us with a vision of the future, and it holds up a funhouse mirror to the present. Rise of / Dawn of / War for the Planet of the Apes (2011, Rupert Wyatt 2014, 2017 Matt Reeves)Īn excellently executed trilogy that first reimagines the classic 1960s movie, and then runs with that new interpretation. Themes of free will, memory and what it means to be human play out in a stunning new landscape in what I suppose must now count as the future’s future. cop (Ryan Gosling) trying to crack an existential mystery to which he himself may be a clue. This inspired sequel to Ridley Scott’s 1982 classic feels at once familiar - flying cars, replicants, Harrison Ford - and shockingly new, thanks to the central story of an L.A. Astronauts and scientists gently carped that the film featured numerous physical impossibilities, but that’s only because it was so realistic in so many other ways.īasically a two-hour car chase through the desert, but strapped to the hood is a simple, satisfying story starring Charlize Theron as the wonderfully named, don’t-mess-with-me Imperator Furiosa.īlade Runner 2049 (2017, Denis Villeneuve) Sandra Bullock plays a rookie astronaut who loses her ride and has to find her way back to Earth. The best time travel movie in years - yes, that’s looking forward and backward - features Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis as the same assassin, separated by three decades. Garland followed it up with Annihilation (2018), a nightmarish vision of interplanetary contamination.Ĭhris Knight: These are the 10 best movies of the decade Garland’s first feature, starring the wildly talented Alicia Vikander, features one of the smartest screenplays of the decade, as a young programmer (Domhnall Gleason) must determine if an A.I. ![]() Oh, and he also made Inception (2010), with one of the best, most frustrating endings in cinema - not to mention a fine job of editing. Using our planet’s environmental crisis as a jumping-off point, he imagines future explorers seeking a new home for our species, and finding inspiration in the unlikeliest places. The future of humanity is, in one form or another, the theme of most art, but few have explored it on as large a canvas as Nolan. ![]() ![]() Here are some standouts, and not a Transformers among them. Includes two science-fiction tales – Arrival and Her – but you could create a film festival out of all the great examples of the genre from this past decade. ![]()
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