Ali Teske is a writer for Collider focusing on movies and television. She also writes for The Daily Reporter and Wisconsin Law Journal.
The science-fiction genre is more than human versus alien conflicts. For the esteemed film critic Roger Ebert, the best science fiction movies explore the relationship between nature and science while peppering in imaginative elements like space, dystopia, and extraterrestrial beings.
✕ Remove Ads Ebert calls out the fun Star Wars has in depicting aliens, spaceships, and the battles between good and evil, something far different from other iconic sci-fi films. It's important to note Ebert gave all three movies in Lucas' initial trilogy his highest rating of four stars.
✕ Remove Ads "No director makes greater demands on our patience. Yet his admirers are passionate and they have reason for their feelings: Tarkovsky consciously tried to create art that was great and deep. He held to a romantic view of the individual able to transform reality through his own spiritual and philosophical strength."
"Scott has resisted the temptation to go back and replace analog special effects with new GCI work...and has kept Douglas Turnbull’s virtuoso original special effects, while enhancing, restoring, cleaning and scrubbing both visuals and sound so the film reflects a higher technical standard than ever before. It looks so great, you’re tempted to say the hell with the story, let’s just watch it.
"'Metropolis' does what many great films do, creating a time, place and characters so striking that they become part of our arsenal of images for imagining the world. The ideas of 'Metropolis' have been so often absorbed into popular culture that its horrific future city is almost a given..." 2 'E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial' Directed by Steven Spielberg ✕ Remove Ads The nine-time Oscar-nominated film is a coming-of-age film that allowed the sci-fi genre to reach a younger viewership without sacrificing the genre standards to do so. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial is the tale of a young boy named Elliot who befriends a friendly alien and forges a plan to help him return to his home planet before the government can take him.
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