Ghost In The Shell: 15 Recent Sci-Fi Movies That Were Far Superior

13. Ex Machina (2015)

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Another astonishingly impressive debut, Ex Machina is an uncommonly intelligent entry into the genre that asks provocative questions about the future of humanity and mankind's potential to create AI indistinguishable from humankind.

Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac and Alicia Vikander are terrific in the central roles, as novelist and first-time filmmaker Alex Garland (28 Days Later, Sunshine, Dredd) mines plenty of quiet unease from the isolated locale and Isaac's implacable, ice-cool turn as an enigmatic CEO with a very unnerving mission.

The $15 million sci-fi flick was so widely acclaimed it even managed to score Oscar nominations for Best Visual Effects and Best Original Screenplay, winning the former in a shock victory, beating out the likes of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Mad Max: Fury Road and The Martian.

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