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Best Sci-Fi Movies With Friends On A Friday From The 2020S With Incredible Cinematography

These sci-fi films were selected by the Moviepiq editorial team for a Friday night with friends. Popularity and critic scores don't factor in here. Emotional fit does.

The best sci-fi movies with friends on a friday from the 2020s with incredible cinematography. Includes Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, The Wild Robot, ...

Friday night with friends is about energy. You want something that earns its place in the conversation - a film that people are still talking about on the way home.

The 2020s have already produced films that will be studied for decades - lean, precise, unafraid to take audiences seriously.

The best science fiction isn't about technology — it's about humanity. The future is the setting. The question is always about who we are.

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse movie poster
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2023 · ★★★★☆ 8.3/10

After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn's full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters the Spider Society, a team of Spider-People charged with protecting the Multiverse's very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must set out on his own to save those he loves most.

The Wild Robot movie poster
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2024 · ★★★★☆ 8.3/10

After a shipwreck, an intelligent robot called Roz is stranded on an uninhabited island. To survive the harsh environment, Roz bonds with the island's animals and cares for an orphaned baby goose.

Project Hail Mary movie poster
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2026 · ★★★★☆ 8.2/10

Science teacher Ryland Grace wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he begins to uncover his mission: solve the riddle of the mysterious substance causing the sun to die out. He must call on his scientific knowledge and unorthodox ideas to save everything on Earth from extinction.

Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time movie poster
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2021 · ★★★★☆ 8.2/10

In the aftermath of the Fourth Impact, stranded without their Evangelions, Shinji, Asuka and Rei find refuge in one of the rare pockets of humanity that still exist on the ruined planet Earth. There, each lives a life far different from their days as an Evangelion pilot. However, the danger to the world is far from over. A new impact is looming on the horizon-one that will prove to be the true end of Evangelion.

Dune: Part Two movie poster
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2024 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

Follow the mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a path of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe, Paul endeavors to prevent a terrible future only he can foresee.

Great sci-fi asks impossible questions and then sits with them honestly. No easy answers. No tidy resolutions. Just the question, placed carefully in front of you.

Transformers One movie poster
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2024 · ★★★★☆ 8.0/10

The untold origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron, better known as sworn enemies, but once were friends bonded like brothers who changed the fate of Cybertron forever.

Robot Dreams movie poster
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2023 · ★★★★☆ 8.0/10

A lonely dog's friendship with his robot companion takes a sad turn when an unexpected malfunction forces him to abandon Robot at the beach. Will Dog ever meet Robot again?

Spider-Man: No Way Home movie poster
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2021 · ★★★½☆ 7.9/10

Peter Parker is unmasked and no longer able to separate his normal life from the high-stakes of being a super-hero. When he asks for help from Doctor Strange the stakes become even more dangerous, forcing him to discover what it truly means to be Spider-Man.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 movie poster
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2023 · ★★★½☆ 7.9/10

Peter Quill, still reeling from the loss of Gamora, must rally his team around him to defend the universe along with protecting one of their own. A mission that, if not completed successfully, could quite possibly lead to the end of the Guardians as we know them.

Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero movie poster
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2022 · ★★★½☆ 7.9/10

The Red Ribbon Army, an evil organization that was once destroyed by Goku in the past, has been reformed by a group of people who have created new and mightier Androids, Gamma 1 and Gamma 2, and seek vengeance against Goku and his family.

Cinematography is the argument the film is making before anyone speaks. These films make their argument beautifully.

Great science fiction stays with you because the questions it raises don't have answers. These films plant something and leave it to grow.

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