Hard Boiled
An action-packed cyberpunk comic where the protagonist perceives a false reality as real.
Science Fiction
Dark City
“Can you come up with a single memory? You can’t, can you? You know something, I don’t think the sun even exists in this place. ‘Cause I’ve been up for hours, and hours, and hours, and the night never ends here.”
Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds
On a minuscule budget, Proyas crafts a visually breathtaking film and shows off his eye for image composition.
The Vast of Night
Taking a well-worn genre formula and avoiding its cliches, The Vast of Night is an old-fashioned triumph of form while remaining fun and engaging throughout.
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said
If taken at face value as a throwaway PKD meditation on the nature of reality it is adequate. Dick’s novels are always about ideas. Not sentence construction, dialogue, pacing, or narrative cohesion.
Coherence
It just goes to show that creativity doesn’t necessarily need to be backed by truckloads of money to make something great.
The Man from Earth
Science fiction is one of the toughest genres to do well in film, let alone doing it on a tiny budget and without any special effects.
Hunters of Dune
Much of the intellectual and philosophical merit of Frank Herbert’s world has been stripped in favor of sci-fi flavored fluff.
Armageddon
It is certainly not something a fact checker or film snob would cherish, but for a straight up action film it works all right.