12 Recent Sci-Fi Movies That Are Future Classics

4. The World's End

Ad Astra Brad Pitt
Universal

Having skewered the stock American subgenres of zombie horror and macho action to brilliant aplomb, Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost finished their Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy with the most surprising of the bunch; a bodysnatchers riff played out amid a mid-life crisis.

What marks it out from their other efforts is a sense of sad maturity that course through the veins of their apocalyptic pub crawl, anchored by their deepest creations to date. It's a gloriously funny sci-fi pastiche with hidden depths; an emotional wallop that lifts it above and beyond.

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