The year 2025 is well underway and there are a whole host of exciting new science fiction releases on the horizon to look forward to. Star Trek: Section 31, The gorgeAnd Mickey 17 are scheduled to hit streaming and theaters in the next few months, not to mention all the other films scheduled to hit theaters in the second half of the year. If you're looking for the best sci-fi movies to watch from the comfort of your home, then you've come to the right place Nowbut you are in the right place.
This month we have a two-part modern epic of a sci-fi masterpiece, a much-maligned (but fascinating) star vehicle set in a post-apocalyptic future, and an American-made adaptation of a French graphic novel from one of the greatest Korean directors of our time .
Let's take a look at what this month has to offer!
Editor's Pick: Dune and Dune: Part Two
Image: Warner Bros.
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Pour: Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson
Denis Villeneuve's two-part adaptation of Frank Herbert's science fiction epic is a masterpiece of our time. The story of Paul Atreides, the scion of a powerful noble family in a distant space future, is both far-fetched and elemental: a fantastical depiction of the dangers of revenge, the ennobling power of love, and the dangers of community of faith. chosen by the agenda of imperialism. The film's portrayal of the desert planet Arrakis, the native Fremen, and the colossal sandworms is spectacular, as is almost every portrayal on screen, but especially Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya. If you haven't seen it yet dune However, consider this your signal to do so – and if you've seen it dune Consider this your chance to relive it now. –Toussaint Egan
Image: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Director: Kevin Reynolds
Pour: Kevin Costner, Dennis Hopper, Jeanne Tripplehorn
The unfairly maligned 1995 epic continues the theme of this post about environmental extremes Water world is more or less what it sounds like: the polar ice caps have melted, sea levels have risen, and the world is almost completely covered in water.
The film's plot follows Kevin Costner as a man known simply as “The Mariner” who sails aimlessly around the world. Now, if you're thinking this sounds like a Mad Max rip-off with water instead of sand, then technically you're right, at least on paper. But in practice Water world is so much more fascinating, and its world is uniquely bizarre and beautifully portrayed – a fact that caused the production to go astronomically and infamously over budget. And Costner proves to be the perfect post-apocalyptic cipher. Having lost its reputation as one of Hollywood's most infamous disasters of recent times and an ill-fated attempt at starting a franchise, Water world remains a pretty incredible adventure film of the kind that is rarely if ever made anymore – which is admittedly at least partly due to this Water world himself. –Austen Goslin
Image: Anchor Bay Entertainment
Director: Bong Joon-ho
Pour: Chris Evans, Song Kang-ho, Tilda Swinton
Bong Joon-ho's sci-fi action film about the remnants of humanity surviving aboard a massive post-apocalyptic train is just as excellent today as it was in 2013. The film follows Curtis (Chris Evans), who leads the poor passengers up behind the train a rebellion to take control of humanity's locomotive arc in the hopes of creating a better, fairer place for all passengers on board.
Curtis' group of fighters moving from the back of the train to the front plays like a horizontal version of The raidwith all sorts of bizarre and ridiculous characters lining their path to the lead car. Although the class metaphor here is perhaps not quite as complicated as in director Bong's Best Picture winning film parasite A few years later, the lack of subtlety allows him to handle the concept more like a sledgehammer than a scalpel, creating one of the angriest and most interesting hidden gems of the 2010s. —AG
