12 Recent Sci-Fi Movies That Are Future Classics

3. High Life

Ad Astra Brad Pitt
A24

Veteran French auteur Claire Denis' English-language debut proved that her talents could not be lost in translation when she helmed this dark study of humanity at the far end of its rope; a mood study of sex, death and violence that throbs with a hypnotic, quasi-lucid claustrophobia.

Fronted by a brusquely brilliant Robert Pattinson, it's an often unforgiving yet altogether arresting feat, following the lives of several prisoners trapped aboard a spaceship gradually approaching a black hole. As thought-provoking fare goes, it's surely poised to stand the test of time.

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