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Best Sci/Fi Movies of 2010

by hormelboxx • Created 8 years ago • Modified 8 years ago
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  • Jude Law and Forest Whitaker in Repo Men (2010)

    1. Repo Men

    20101h 51mR32Metascore
    6.3 (113K)
    Set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit, it revolves around a man who struggles to make the payments on a heart he has purchased. He must therefore go on the run before said ticker is repossessed.
    DirectorMiguel SapochnikStarsJude LawForest WhitakerAlice Braga
  • Scoot McNairy and Whitney Able in Monsters (2010)

    2. Monsters

    20101h 34mR63Metascore
    6.3 (100K)
    Six years after Earth has suffered an alien invasion, a cynical journalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through an infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the U.S. border.
    DirectorGareth EdwardsStarsScoot McNairyWhitney AbleMario Zuniga Benavides
  • Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tom Hardy, Elliot Page, Ken Watanabe, and Dileep Rao in Inception (2010)

    3. Inception

    20102h 28mPG-1374Metascore
    8.8 (2.7M)
    A thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O., but his tragic past may doom the project and his team to disaster.
    DirectorChristopher NolanStarsLeonardo DiCaprioJoseph Gordon-LevittElliot Page
  • Cas Anvar, Vera Farmiga, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jeffrey Wright, Michelle Monaghan, and Michael Arden in Source Code (2011)

    4. Source Code

    20111h 33mPG-1374Metascore
    7.5 (570K)
    A soldier wakes up in someone else's body and discovers he's part of an experimental government program to find the bomber of a commuter train within 8 minutes.
    DirectorDuncan JonesStarsJake GyllenhaalMichelle MonaghanVera Farmiga
  • Bruce Willis, Jeff Daniels, Piper Perabo, Paul Dano, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Emily Blunt in Looper (2012)

    5. Looper

    20121h 59mR84Metascore
    7.4 (619K)
    In 2074, when the mob wants to get rid of someone, the target is sent into the past, where a hired gun awaits - someone like Joe - who one day learns the mob wants to 'close the loop' by sending back Joe's future self for assassination.
    DirectorRian JohnsonStarsJoseph Gordon-LevittBruce WillisEmily Blunt
  • Samantha Morton, Lynn Collins, and Taylor Kitsch in John Carter (2012)

    6. John Carter

    20122h 12mPG-1351Metascore
    6.6 (294K)
    A war-weary former army captain is inexplicably transported to Mars and reluctantly becomes embroiled in a conflict of epic proportions.
    DirectorAndrew StantonStarsTaylor KitschLynn CollinsWillem Dafoe
  • Matt Damon and Emily Blunt in The Adjustment Bureau (2011)

    7. The Adjustment Bureau

    20111h 46mPG-1360Metascore
    7.0 (278K)
    The relationship between a politician and a contemporary dancer is affected by mysterious forces keeping them apart.
    DirectorGeorge NolfiStarsMatt DamonEmily BluntLisa Thoreson
  • Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig in Cowboys & Aliens (2011)

    8. Cowboys & Aliens

    20111h 59mPG-1350Metascore
    6.0 (238K)
    A spaceship arrives in 1873 Arizona to take over the Earth, starting with the Wild West region. All that stands in their way: a posse of cowboys and natives.
    DirectorJon FavreauStarsDaniel CraigHarrison FordOlivia Wilde
  • Super 8 (2011)

    9. Super 8

    20111h 52mPG-1372Metascore
    7.0 (375K)
    During the summer of 1979, a group of friends witness a train crash and investigate subsequent unexplained events in their small town.
    DirectorJ.J. AbramsStarsElle FanningAJ MichalkaKyle Chandler
  • Jeff Bridges, Olivia Wilde, and Garrett Hedlund in Tron: Legacy (2010)

    10. Tron: Legacy

    20102h 5mPG49Metascore
    6.8 (370K)
    The son of a computer programmer goes looking for his father and ends up inside the digital world that his father designed. He meets his father's corrupted creation and a unique ally who was born inside the digital world.
    DirectorJoseph KosinskiStarsJeff BridgesGarrett HedlundOlivia Wilde
  • Alanis Morissette, Jonathan Scarfe, Shea Whigham, Scott Wilson, and Katheryn Winnick in Radio Free Albemuth (2010)

    11. Radio Free Albemuth

    20101h 51mR35Metascore
    5.6 (2K)
    Sci-fi thriller from Philip K. Dick (Blade Runner, Minority Report, A Scanner Darkly); Nick Brady receives messages from space and joins conspiracy to overthrow authoritarian U. S. regime.
    DirectorJohn Alan SimonStarsShea WhighamJonathan ScarfeMichael Rothhaar
  • Zenith (2010)

    12. Zenith

    20101h 33m
    5.4 (1.3K)
    A retro-futuristic thriller, about two men in two time periods, whose search for the same grand conspiracy leads them to question their own humanity.
    DirectorVladan NikolicStarsPeter ScanavinoJason Robards IIIAna Asensio
  • Lloyd Owen, Ryan Robbins, and Warren Christie in Apollo 18 (2011)

    13. Apollo 18

    20111h 26mPG-1324Metascore
    5.2 (59K)
    Decades-old found footage from NASA's abandoned Apollo 18 mission, where three American astronauts were sent on a secret expedition, reveals the reason the U.S. has never returned to the moon.
    DirectorGonzalo López-GallegoStarsWarren ChristieLloyd OwenRyan Robbins
  • Eric Balfour and Donald Faison in Skyline (2010)

    14. Skyline

    20101h 32mPG-1326Metascore
    4.5 (94K)
    Strange lights descend on the city of Los Angeles, drawing people outside like moths to a flame where an extraterrestrial force threatens to swallow the entire human population off the face of the Earth.
    DirectorsColin StrauseGreg StrauseStarsEric BalfourDonald FaisonScottie Thompson
  • Never Let Me Go (2010)

    15. Never Let Me Go

    20101h 43mR69Metascore
    7.1 (157K)
    The lives of three friends, from their early school days into young adulthood, when the reality of the world they live in comes knocking.
    DirectorMark RomanekStarsKeira KnightleyCarey MulliganAndrew Garfield
  • Enthiran (2010)

    16. Enthiran

    20102h 54mNot Rated
    7.2 (32K)
    A brilliant scientist creates a humanoid robot to protect mankind, but things go awry when human emotions are programmed and inner turmoil causes the robot to switch sides.
    DirectorS. ShankarStarsRajinikanthAishwarya Rai BachchanDanny Denzongpa
  • Aaron Eckhart in Battle Los Angeles (2011)

    17. Battle Los Angeles

    20111h 56mPG-1337Metascore
    5.7 (188K)
    A squad of U.S. Marines becomes the last line of defense against a global invasion.
    DirectorJonathan LiebesmanStarsAaron EckhartMichelle RodriguezBridget Moynahan
  • Love (2011)

    18. Love

    20111h 24mNot Rated
    5.4 (9.1K)
    A man spends years alone on a space station orbiting Earth after losing communication with Houston/Earth. He spends time on maintenance, exercise, watching old messages, and reading a journal by a soldier in the American Civil War.
    DirectorWilliam EubankStarsGunner WrightCorey RichardsonBradley Horne
  • Paul (2011)

    19. Paul

    20111h 44mR57Metascore
    6.9 (276K)
    Two English comic book geeks traveling across the U.S. encounter an alien outside Area 51.
    DirectorGreg MottolaStarsSimon PeggNick FrostSeth Rogen
  • Hugh Jackman in Real Steel (2011)

    20. Real Steel

    20112h 7mPG-1356Metascore
    7.1 (372K)
    In a near future where robot boxing is a top sport, a struggling ex-boxer feels he's found a champion in a discarded robot.
    DirectorShawn LevyStarsHugh JackmanEvangeline LillyDakota Goyo
  • Peter Cullen, Shia LaBeouf, and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley in Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)

    21. Transformers: Dark of the Moon

    20112h 34mPG-1342Metascore
    6.2 (446K)
    The Autobots learn of a Cybertronian spacecraft hidden on the moon, and race against the Decepticons to reach it and to learn its secrets.
    DirectorMichael BayStarsShia LaBeoufRosie Huntington-WhiteleyTyrese Gibson
  • Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010)

    22. Beyond the Black Rainbow

    20101h 50mR49Metascore
    5.9 (18K)
    Despite being under heavy sedation, a young woman tries to make her way out of the Arboria Institute, a secluded, quasifuturistic commune.
    DirectorPanos CosmatosStarsEva BourneMichael J RogersScott Hylands
  • Shawn Ashmore, Ashley Bell, Cory Hardrict, Dominic Monaghan, and Shannyn Sossamon in The Day (2011)

    23. The Day

    20111h 27mR41Metascore
    5.2 (14K)
    A group of five people working to stay alive in a post-apocalyptic future discover what they think is a safe, abandoned farmhouse, but they soon find themselves fighting to stay alive as a gang of bloodthirsty predators attack.
    DirectorDoug AarniokoskiStarsShawn AshmoreBrianna BarnesAshley Bell
  • Errors of the Human Body (2012)

    24. Errors of the Human Body

    20121h 41mUnrated
    5.2 (2.4K)
    When a potentially lethal virus is created within his new lab, Dr Geoff Burton is shocked to discover he is not only the unwitting cause, but also its first victim.
    DirectorEron SheeanStarsMichael EklundKaroline HerfurthTómas Lemarquis
  • Transfer (2010)

    25. Transfer

    20101h 33m
    6.7 (872)
    In a futuristic society where the wealthy get to live forever by swapping bodies with refugees, an elderly couple explores this opportunity with harsh consequences.
    DirectorDamir LukacevicStarsB.J. BrittRegine NehyHans-Michael Rehberg

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