The list

(I have posted this open letter inside movie critic Chris Stuckmann facebook page)

" Dear Chris, (sorry, i could not find where else to post this letter. I am not keen on social media whatsoever)

Last year I went to watch Rogue One with a friend who is visiting Brazil for a few weeks. After the movie, during a dinner, I told him that this year will be a great year for Sci-fi movie lovers. I told him about Alien Covenant and the sequence of Blade Runner.

 
Immediately, he asked if we could go out again and try to watch one of these movies in a theater nearby. I told him that unfortunately their debut will be more like mid-year. Late last month he mourned himself again because the movies available weren't so good and  complained that i have left him hungry for good sci fi  with my movie chit chat.

I was heart touched by his frustration and decided to offer him my list of the best sci-fi of the last two decades, with the feeling that he did not watch several of these films yet, and meanwhile, as we wait for the good stuff, he still have a good share of sci fi material yet to be appreciated . So, yesterday finally I did it. It took me at least two hours of web research. And I decided to share it with you.

Below in this page you can find my list of the must - see/best/cult/realistic sci fi of the last 20 years, in the way I see it. Roland Emmerich movies remained out, as well as Avatar, Star trek series and Star wars series. "Fantasy Sci Fi movies" MIB, Dark City, The Firth element, Guardians of the Galaxy, Hitchhiker guide to the galaxy or "Dystopia sci fi movies" like The Road, Book of Eli or Snowpiecer are also both remained out of it.

As subjective as it could be, my main criteria was something like “how intense remains my wish to watch it again multiple times?”

Here are my quick (and certainly unfair) honorable mentions.

Scanner Darkly (2006), Moon (2009), Europa Report (2013), Edge of Tomorrow (2014), Minority Report (2002), Source Code (2011), Under the Skin (2013), Signal (2014), Oblivion (2013), Monsters (2010), Elysium (2013).

So here’s the List

1997 - Contact

1998 - The X files

1999 - The Matrix

2000 - Mission to Mars

2001/2002 - AI, Donnie Darko

2003- Signs

2004 - Primer

2005 - War of the worlds

2006 - Children of men

2007 - Sunshine

2008 - Cloverfield

2009- District 9

2010 - Inception

2011 - Melancholia

2012 - Prometheus

2013- Gravity

2014 - Interstellar

2015 - The Martian

2016 – Arrival

Dear Chris: I would love to have your thoughts about my list. Is your list kind of close to mine? Where do we match? And where do we disagree? Thanks a lot for your awesome job as a movie critic. I’ve been a fan since 2012."

Best regards 

Andre

(kept updated: last in November, 2019)

2017 - Blade Runner 2049
2018 - Annhihilation
2019 - Ad Astra