What are the best science fiction movies ?

He wrestles with his identity as a black man in the face of this success, especially as his co-workers revolt against the company's broken systems while he rises through the ranks.

8. Lost in Space
Lost in Space might not have taken up as much space in your TV subconsciousness as some other shows this year. After all, Netflix released a lot of shows in 2018. That said, it was simply one of the most entertaining exclusives the streaming service had to offer.

This adaptation put a modern spin with great visual effects on the old TV series and left us wanting more by the time Season 1 was finished. Between the exciting worlds it's building, the chemistry between the Robinson family, and the fact that literally anything that could go wrong will in a heartbeat, what's not to love?

9. Overlord
Overlord has the makings of B-movie badness: A squad of everyman US soldiers has to infiltrate a Nazi-occupied French village on the eve of the D-Day Normandy invasion. The village hides a secret, though:

The Nazis have transformed the church's undercroft into a secret lab where they're creating unkillable, zombie-like supersoldiers. Naturally.

10. Prospect
Prospect is different from most of the sweeping, universe-scale sci-fi epics that come out these days. No one is trying to destroy any planets or galaxies, there's no millennia-spanning lore about ancient races seeding the future with mysterious artifacts, and Earth isn't locked in a desperate war with any distant colonies (that we know of).

Instead, Prospect is the story of a man (Jay Duplass), his daughter (Sophie Thatcher), and a bandit (Game of Thrones' Pedro Pascal) trying to simply stay alive on an unforgiving alien frontier.

And it has some insanely awesome practical special effects--it's worth watching for those alone. If you like your sci-fi on a smaller, more intimate scale, you'll be over the moon for Prospect. -- Mike Rougeau

11. The Endless
The Endless proves you don't need money and lavish VFX to make one of the the year's best sci-fi movies--you just need a great concept and script. This is the third movie from Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, who are emerging as two of the most ambitious and interesting independent filmmakers around.

It's a sort-of sequel to the their 2014 debut Resolution, and focuses on a pair of friends (played by Moorhead and Benson) who revisit the cult that they grew up in and escaped from as kids. What happens next involves time-loops and interdimensional entities, and things gets very weird very quickly.

The surreal, paranoid tone of The Endless is reminiscent of other off-beat sci-fi movies such as Primer, Coherence, and Under the Skin, but this one is also pretty funny in places too.

And the way it incorporates the story of Resolution is absolutely genius--you don't have to have seen that earlier film to enjoy The Endless, but if you have, it's got some absolutely brilliant scenes that will have you racing back to Resolution immediately afterwards. -- Dan Auty

12. The Purge (TV)
TV, it turns out, is the perfect medium for The Purge's particular combination of slasher-esque horror, social satire, and ridiculous-but-worrisome premise.

The idea of trying to survive a single night of lawlessness every year doesn't really hold up to intense scrutiny, but that's not the point--Purge Night in the franchise is an effective vehicle to make comments about the real world, while also putting characters in dreadful and frightening situations. And at that, the TV version of The Purge excels.

With the added runtime a 10-part series affords, Universal's The Purge show is able to dig into a lot of ideas the movies so far have only hinted at.

For a show about scary masked psychos turning America into a Mad Max-style warzone, The Purge is a pretty intelligent, multi-layered show.

And when it's not making you think about America and society, it's throwing some intense action and horror your way. There's a lot to like about The Purge, not the least of which is how it engages your brain while freaking you out. -- Phil Hornshaw