Best Sci-Fi Movies of the 2020s

The sci-fi films from 2020–2029that defined the decade. Plus the ones that wasted everyone's time and money.

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Superman

2025

James Gunn finally gave DC a real vision. $250M but it FEELS like it matters. David Corenswet IS Superman. $616M worldwide and climbing. This is what DC should have been doing for 10 years.

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$200M

Jurassic World Rebirth

2025

Gareth Edwards (Rogue One, Godzilla) brought new life to a dead franchise. $870M worldwide. Proof that the right director matters more than the right IP. The dinosaurs are back and they earned it.

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$78M

The Wild Robot

2024

$78M and DreamWorks made adults sob in theaters over a robot raising a goose. Beautiful animation, genuine emotion, proof that animated movies don't need $200M — they need heart.

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$170M

Tron: Ares

2025

$170M on a franchise nobody was asking to return. Jared Leto. Again. Made $142M worldwide. Lost $133M. The Tron franchise has never been a box office draw and Disney keeps pretending it will be.

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$200M

Elio

2025

$200M on Pixar's biggest bomb ever. Made $154M. PIXAR. The studio that made Toy Story, Up, Inside Out. Even they can't survive the content factory model. When you rush Pixar, you get Elio.

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$180M

Thunderbolts*

2025

$180M on Marvel's version of Suicide Squad with characters nobody's attached to. The asterisk in the title is fitting — this whole phase of the MCU deserves an asterisk.

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$118M

Mickey 17

2025

Bong Joon-ho made Parasite for $11M and won Best Picture. WB gave him $118M for Mickey 17 and it made $111M. More money doesn't always help — even for geniuses.

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$180M

Captain America: Brave New World

2025

$180M and Marvel still can't recapture the magic. Phase 5 is where franchise fatigue became franchise death. The MCU keeps spending more and delivering less.

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$80M

Madame Web

2024

$80M on a psychic Spider-Woman origin story that makes Morbius look competent. Sony is speedrunning bad decisions at this point.

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$100M

Atlas

2024

$100M for J.Lo in a mech suit fighting AI. Netflix keeps writing blank checks for movies that feel generated by AI. Ironic.

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$168M

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

2024

$168M on a prequel to Fury Road. The original was practical stunts and real desert. This one leaned on CGI and it shows. Lost $120M. Some stories don't need a prequel.

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$115M

Borderlands

2024

$115M on a video game movie starring Cate Blanchett. Made $33M worldwide. THIRTY-THREE MILLION. The game has more personality in its loading screens.

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$200M

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

2023

$200 MILLION on floating CGI heads in a green screen void. The script reads like it was written during a lunch break. Pure noise.

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$166M

Rebel Moon

2023

Zack Snyder got $166M from Netflix and delivered a Star Wars knockoff with zero personality. Slow-mo doesn't replace story. It never did.

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$195M

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

2023

$195M on the 7th Transformers movie. Seven. They've made seven of these. At what point does the audience collectively agree that we've seen enough robots punch each other?

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