The Best Sci-Fi Movies On Netflix You Can Watch Right Now

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Earlier than Tom Cruise and Joseph Kosinski teamed up on Prime Gun: Maverick, there was Oblivion. 

Oblivion was an underrated, and now largely forgotten post-apocalyptic sci-fi flick the place every thing is not fairly what it appears. Bold and extremely lovely, you will have missed Oblivion on the theatre, however there’s by no means been a greater time to provide it an opportunity. 

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Say what you want about J.J. Abrams, however he completely nailed this one. The Star Trek reboot was a straight up banger when it was first launched in 2009. It is this film, I think, that acquired him The Pressure Awakens gig. It additionally kickstarted the profession of the one true Chris, Chris Pine. Nonetheless holds up right this moment.

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The Platform is a Spanish sci-fi horror flick with a grotesque excessive idea. Prisoners in a correctional facility are fed in a really distinctive approach: Of us on the prime flooring get fed a daft quantity of meals, people beneath get their leftovers. Chaos ensues. 

It isn’t excellent, however nonetheless effectively price watching.

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Spiderhead is the newest film from Prime Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski, and likewise stars Miles Teller, who options in that very same film. 

Spiderhead is not fairly on the identical stage because the superlative Prime Gun: Maverick, but it surely’s nonetheless price watching. Based mostly on a dystopian brief story revealed in The New Yorker, Spiderhead takes place in a state-of-the-art jail, the place drug-induced experiments are going down with the inmates. 

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Males in Black is presently on Netflix. this film, everybody has seen this film. It is good. You need to watch it.

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An Australian-made sci-fi thriller starring Hilary Swank and Rose Byrne, I Am Mom tells the post-apocalyptic story of Daughter, a personality raised by Mom, a robotic tasked with serving to repopulate the Earth. Very tense, very unusual, excellent.

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I simply watched The Colony lately. It is surprisingly good!

It follows a really acquainted trope: Wealthy individuals returning to Earth years after abandoning it, to search out it overrun by new, unknown threats. The Colony subverts a few of these cliches, nevertheless, and has some surprisingly highly effective issues to say concerning the methods by which we dehumanize each other. Properly price giving an opportunity. 

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The Mitchells vs. The Machines is among the smartest, most accessible youngsters motion pictures of the previous couple of years. It is the kind of film youngsters and oldsters can watch collectively and each have a blast.

I ought to know, my youngsters have made me watch this… eight instances up to now? Candy.

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The Mist is nice. A sci-fi horror film based mostly on a Stephen King story that is acquired some brilliantly executed horror components. Simply remember, it has an ending that can suck the oxygen out of your lungs. Do not say you were not warned.

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The Adam Challenge is not an ideal film, but it surely is excellent for these in search of out a simple look ahead to a household film evening. Ryan Reynolds does his Ryan Reynolds factor as a time-traveling pilot working together with his 12-year-old self on a mission to avoid wasting the long run.

Look, it is a crowd pleaser! 

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Is that this sci-fi? I feel it is sci-fi. 

It is sci-fi. Finish of debate.

Do not Look Up is way from an ideal film. It reeks of Hollywood faux-activism and it is too lengthy and approach too on the nostril. Nevertheless it nonetheless feels essential and likewise… fairly humorous? 

I feel no matter its flaws, Do not Look Up is a film that has had a web optimistic on the world and it is price watching.

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Apollo 11 1/2 is loosely based mostly on director Richard Linklater’s childhood. An animated story set across the time of the Apollo moon touchdown it stars  Glen Powell, Jack Black, Zachary Levi and Josh Wiggins and options a phenomenal animated aesthetic. 

It is a fantastically made film you’ll be able to’t afford to overlook.