The best sci-fi movies of 2024 tackle the kind of elemental questions around which the genre has always revolved: What is the value of a human life? How much are you willing to sacrifice, to get something you want? How will technology continue to transform our ability to travel, to communicate with each other, to experience life's pleasures and sorrows? Will we ever learn from our mistakes and treat each other with dignity, or will each new discovery simply force us through another round of learning the same lessons?
This year, the sci-fi film genre saw human DNA merging with animals in the likes of The Animal Kingdom, or human consciousnesses being stripped away and replaced with alien hitchhikers in Meanwhile on Earth. It saw the impacts of desperation in clinging to one's golden years in Coralie Fargeat's The Substance, or the alternatingly melancholy & uplifting journeys of The Beast and the still underseen Robot Dreams. We got all that, and the blockbuster bombast of George Miler
