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V for VendettaV for Vendetta (2005) Recommended
Dir. James McTeigue
Feat. Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea
Set in the year 2020, this dystopian thriller adapts Alan Moore's graphic novel about a world where deadly viruses have wiped out most of America and…
CasshernCasshern (2004) Recommended
Dir. Kazuaki Kiriya
Feat. Yusuke Iseya, Kumiko Aso, Akira Terao
Set in a ravaged, post–nuclear war future, ruled by a fascist clique, this rearranges some familiar elements with a visually charged, epic…
Final Cut, TheFinal Cut, The (2004)
Dir. Omar Naim
Feat. Robin Williams, Mira Sorvino, Jim Caviezel
Pertinent in an age where everything is over–recorded, and continuing a wave of films that play with memory, this sci–fi speculation from…
Ghost in the Shell 2: InnocenceGhost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)
Dir. Mamoru Oshii
Visually emphatic, conceptually flummoxing sequel to Mamoru Oshii's cyberpunk touchstone GHOST IN THE SHELL. Cybernetic detective Batou returns to…
I, RobotI, Robot (2004)
Dir. Alex Proyas
Feat. Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan, Bruce Greenwood
Standard model adaptation of Isaac Asimov's 1950s sci–fi speculations about the dystopian possibilities of a robot–riddled…
One Point 0One Point 0 (1.0) (2004)
Dir. Jeff Renfroe, Marteinn Thorsson
Feat. Jeremy Sisto, Deborah Kara Unger, Udo Kier
An inventive science–fiction speculation, set in a delapidated future world in which a computer programmer (Sisto) begins to get mysterious…
Starship Troopers 2Starship Troopers 2 (Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation) (2004)
Dir. Phil Tippett
Feat. Richard Burgi, Lawrence Monoson, Colleen Porch
Sequel to Paul Verhoeven's satirical futuristic sci–fi, which achieves much of the same thing on a fraction of the budget. The plot this time…
Code 46Code 46 (2003) Recommended
Dir. Michael Winterbottom
Feat. Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton
A cerebral, provocative 'future shock' thriller in which Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton try to conduct a forbidden affair in a politically…
EquilibriumEquilibrium (2003)
Dir. Kurt Wimmer
Feat. Christian Bale, Taye Diggs, Emily Watson
Modest, but intelligent sci–fi thriller, where a policeman misses his daily dose of emotion–lowering drug Prozium and realises the…
It's All About LoveIt's All About Love (2003)
Dir. Thomas Vinterberg
Feat. Joaquin Phoenix, Claire Danes, Sean Penn
A wacky, overambitious, though not unendearing flop for dir. Vinterberg (FESTEN), in which young couple Danes and Phoenix attempt to resolve the…

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