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Sci-fi, ranked by everyone instead of anyone

Inception leads, Alien trails Infinity War, and the genre's top ten, best first. The ranking is proprietary.

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Every sci-fi top-ten on the internet is one person's taste with a list format. Here's goodrecmovies' version: every sci-fi movie worth your night, best first. The ranking is proprietary.

Inception

2010 · Adventure · Sci-Fi

I
84.1
2010 · 148m · Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
★8.8(2.9M)#30overall
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Interstellar

2014 · Adventure · Sci-Fi

I
81.4
2014 · 169m · Adventure, Sci-Fi
★8.7(2.6M)#107overall
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The Matrix

1999 · Action · Sci-Fi

M
82.7
1999 · 136m · Action, Sci-Fi
★8.7(2.3M)#65overall
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S
84.9
1980 · 124m · Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
★8.7(1.5M)#24overall
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day

1991 · Action · Adventure

T
83.0
1991 · 137m · Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
★8.6(1.3M)#51overall
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The Prestige

2006 · Drama · Mystery

P
79.5
2006 · 130m · Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
★8.5(1.6M)#249overall
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Back to the Future

1985 · Adventure · Comedy

B
83.7
1985 · 116m · Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
★8.5(1.5M)#36overall
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Avengers: Infinity War

2018 · Action · Adventure

A
80.0
2018 · 149m · Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
★8.4(1.4M)#201overall
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Aliens

1986 · Action · Adventure

A
82.5
1986 · 137m · Action, Adventure, Horror
★8.4(853k)#77overall
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Alien

1979 · Horror · Sci-Fi

A
82.8
1979 · 117m · Horror, Sci-Fi
★8.4(1.1M)#56overall
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Three honest provocations:

Interstellar over The Matrix — by a hair, and the list still had to pick one. Watch them back to back and pick your own winner.

Infinity War clears Alien — the audience put a cosmic ensemble ahead of a 1979 horror classic. Endgame isn't here: on goodrecmovies it's tagged Action/Adventure only, not Sci-Fi, so it doesn't belong on a sci-fi claim list. If your gut says Infinity War shouldn't beat Alien either, take it up with the audience.

The Prestige is science fiction — Christopher Nolan's invention-obsessed duel is filed under Sci-Fi in the genre data, and honestly, it fits better than half the starships in the pool.

The ranking is proprietary.

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