From “Ready Player One” to “The Arrival”: 10 science fiction jewels of the last decade

Five years before signing the best galactic episode since “Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back”, aka “The Last Jedi”, it’s always a good time to remember, the great Rian Johnson delivered one of those science fiction tapes that amaze, amuse and strike with the same efficiency and strength. This is ‘Looper’, a film starring Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, splendid from start to finish, which proposed a continuous game of times, faces and narratives. A roller coaster of surprises, action, intrigue, wonderful scenes and characters. A real gem.

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At this point, as you read this special, everything that could be said about ‘Gravity’ has already been said. Terms like “milestone” and “miracle” go hand in hand with a film that has achieved unanimity between critics and audiences that hasn’t happened for many years. Or decades. So it is all exaggerated with this story of two astronauts abandoned to their fate in the immensity of space who discover themselves and with which Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón (re) discovers cinema.

From its inception, a sequence that should be studied in any film school, to its frenetic and epic final stretch, Cuarón makes the impossible possible, plays with pre-established weapons by reversing the rules at will, exploits the 3D system to become a perfect narrative element and shape a memorable artifact where, to the continuous open-mouthed, the most real emotion is added. In short, a masterpiece.

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In addition to working as perfect closure, ‘The war for the planet of the apes’ definitively and forcefully reaffirms the internal narrative coherence of a trilogy that has come to an end, full of strength, intensity and cinema. Lots of cinema. The echoes that the classic western finds in the second episode here become a crepuscular essence that fascinates with silences and looks, that nails you to the seat and takes your breath away with a dryness that goes perfectly with a more transparent emotion. Nothing artifice, total control of resources, substance and form, by an immense Matt Reeves in his directing work.

With truly memorable scenes, starting with a prologue that completely immerses you in the story without the option of an answer, “War for the Planet of the Apes” drinks and blends into that dark and melancholy West, completing its emotional reach by trampling. warlike ground that completely resumes its impeccable second half. A change of scenery, which does not change tone or essence, which does not affect a story that, by now, already seems exceptional. An intuition that is confirmed in grand style with a truly grandiose final climax in which the encounters between César, ape who is already history of cinema thanks above all to the overwhelming talent of Andy Serkis, and the colonel, the magnificent Woody Harrelson outside, stand out. In those moments when brilliant dialogue silences the most spectacular action, ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’ it unfolds its full potential, rises above the average, shows something different and, at the same time, deeply classic. It is cinema in its purest form.

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Love or hate, there seems to be no other way when it comes to talking about ‘Dune’, the long-awaited, ambitious and highly commented big screen adaptation of the genius Denis Villeneuve of Frank Herbert’s literary classic. But what no one can doubt is the way in which a gigantic proposal in substance and form, overwhelming in its visual excellence and captivating in its narration, has transcended beyond the noise. For a server, a work of art that has quietly entered among the best in science fiction of the last ten years.

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Having once again demonstrated his extraordinary talent for dramatic thriller with ‘Mother’, Bong Joon-ho has completely changed the third direction of ‘Snowpiercer (Snowbreaker)’, a brilliant adaptation of the comic by Jean-Marc Rochette and Jacques. Loeb. A total immersion in the highly ambitious commercial blockbuster where the director was accompanied by a five-star cast.

A demonstration of acting talent that was perfectly combined with the elegance of the staging and the visual inventiveness of a filmmaker in top form who, far from becoming small in the face of such a challenge, threw himself into it by signing So a frantic show full of great moments. Too bad that the box office did not accompany the film with the enthusiasm it deserved.

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Given the choice, even if in this case any path taken by a critic is acceptable, we say ‘you’ triumphs in every aspect, reaching its climax in the description of the different emotional states, of the different psychological and sensitive phases, of a love story. Illusion, sex, disappointment, tenderness, doubts, everything, absolutely everything, is told with great delicacy, with constant genius, in a script signed and directed by the best Spike Jonze.

It is in the whole relationship between its two protagonists, Theodore (human) and Samantha (artificial intelligence) that the film rests all its impressive documentation of transparent messages to conclude its total reflection on the role of the individual in the future that exists. behind that door that we all have in front of us and towards which we tirelessly head, but also of the role of love. Yesterday, here, now and tomorrow. The need to find a place to hold on, a new discovery when everything falls apart. The importance of hearing a voice. The voice. Undeniable masterpiece.

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Denis Villeneuve’s best film to date It came with his first immersion in the purest and most classic science fiction genre. Of quiet grandeur, ‘The Arrival’, an adaptation of Ted Chiang’s story, also served the director to definitively and forcefully certify his category of essential director of the last decade. A fascinating love letter to the genre based on the power of communication and words, destiny and decisions that mark our existence and that of the people around us. Amy Adams, immense, puts a face on it a story in which substance and form share excellence, cross the screen and overflow its delicacy and depth in every single second of this masterpiece.

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Is Steven Spielberg back to adventure and science fiction with a story anchored behind the culture of the 1980s? Give me ten to go. “Ready Player One” had all the elements in favor to make fans fall in love with the director and to piss off the most avid detractors of him and it came true in both directions, delivering a one hundred percent Spielberg tape.

That means, a fast-paced show that hosted the same doses of emotion as dizziness, of fireworks as of a sense of rhythm, of total cinematic wisdom as a tribute to a decade. Impossible to stay with a total movie scene. “Ready Player One,” for short, made it big on Spielberg’s list of 21st century highlights. Wonderful.

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Led by an immense Matthew McConaughey, an actor with whom we must remain angry at the number of great performances we missed due to his laziness in choosing the scripts, ‘Interstellar’ was a step forward for Christopher Nolan, bringing the heart to a filmography that, until then, was based exclusively on the musculature. Visually stunning, with a script as complex and complicated as it is moving and exciting, We are faced with the work of a director who still focused on the most difficult moments, who did not feel comfortable with his Gotham laurels, who was not satisfied ‘simply’ to entertain.

There are not a few who try to be Nolan and fail in the attempt. They (and we) have one of the most convincing demonstrations in this sublime ‘Interstellar’. A clever arthouse show that levitates well above average. A blow to the table that sounds loud. Both on earth and in space.

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