Vesper (2022)
A biopunk fairy tale that proves imagination beats budget every time.
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Space operas, video-game adaptations, and the odd first-contact story nobody remembers exists — the sci-fi shelf is where genuinely strange ideas get room to breathe. Rated in ears and carrots, not visual-effects budget.
Big budgets and practical effects both show up on this list, and neither one buys a higher score. What matters is whether the idea at the center still holds up once the visuals stop doing the heavy lifting.
Showing all 17 launched so far, of 24 planned
A biopunk fairy tale that proves imagination beats budget every time.
A war movie that spent its budget on dust and light instead of another logo.
A company-town satire dressed up as a body-horror comedy, with Pattinson doing double duty as the punchline and the point.
Three actors, one house, and a seven-day test that turns wanting a child into an interrogation.
A rogue agent hunts his alternate selves across parallel universes to absorb their power. Jet Li, twice, fighting himself.
A former Confederate soldier is mysteriously transported to Mars, where he becomes entangled in a war between rival civilizations and discovers abilities that could decide the planet's fate.
The 1987 classic rebuilt for a drone-warfare era. Better than the "why remake it" discourse suggested.
A insurance investigator uncovers robots repairing themselves in violation of their core protocols. Slower and more interested in ideas than the poster suggests.
Marines vs. mutated test subjects in a Martian research facility. Video-game adaptation that mostly knows what it is.
An astronaut returns to a flooded, half-dead Earth to check on the survivors she left behind. Bleaker and better than its release suggested.
A rescue crew heads to Mars after the first mission goes catastrophically wrong. Brian De Palma, earnest and strange in equal measure.
A cheap-looking premise turns into one of the era's smartest, meanest survival thrillers.
A hundred-year love story that keeps circling the same catastrophe, told by a director more interested in dread than in resolution.
A CG space opera so visually ambitious it's worth watching for the spectacle alone.
An alien drug dealer versus Dolph Lundgren — exactly as gloriously dumb as it sounds.
The Moon is coming for us, and it has never looked better falling apart.
Years after escaping a deadly planet, escaped convict Riddick is drawn into a galaxy-spanning war against the Necromongers, a militant empire converting entire worlds by force.
Ears (0-5) are our overall verdict on the film; the carrot meter (0-100%) is how confident we are you won't regret hitting play tonight specifically. Neither is an aggregated score — every rating here is a single editorial call.
By quality and word-of-mouth staying power, not release-week hype. Some of the science-fiction reviews here are decades old, others are from the last few years — the only filter is whether we think it's genuinely worth your time.
Vesper (2022), at 4.0/5 ears — our current Editor's Pick for Science-Fiction.
17 published so far, with 24 planned in total as we keep working through the genre.
Ears measure how good we think the film is, full stop. Worth Your Time factors in practical things too — runtime, pacing, whether it holds up on a rewatch — so a shorter, tighter film can sometimes score higher on Worth Your Time than a heavier, more demanding one that still earns more ears.
If a rewatch genuinely changes our mind, yes. But we don't chase shifting consensus — a rating here reflects a real, current viewing, not a placeholder we quietly update to match wherever critical opinion has drifted.