The 16 Best Space Movies Since 2001: A Space Odyssey: Vulture
The much-anticipated arrival of Christopher Nolan's Interstellar — which, whatever you think of it, aims to be so very, very, very much more than a "space adventure" — made us think about our favorite space movies since the one that transformed the genre, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Interestingly, there haven't been that many such films in the ensuing decades. (We're talking movies about space, not just aliens. So, for example, Close Encounters of the Third Kind or E.T. don't count, since they're mostly about aliens coming to Earth, as opposed to what might happen to us out in space.) We also had to butt up against our own limitations here: The vast majority of these films are in English, and we're sure there are films from Eastern Europe and Japan and many other places that we're missing. We're sure folks will let us know about these omissions soon enough.
avg. score: 7 of 14 (50%)
required scores: 1, 4, 6, 8, 11
