2 Of The Best Sci-Fi Movies Ever Made Land On Netflix Today

Netflix is ​​starting the new year in style. Two of the best sci-fi movies ever made have just arrived on the streaming service, and whether you’ve seen them or not, either of them will make for a great New Year’s Day viewing binge.

Netflix always adds a bunch of new movies on the first of every month, but it rarely adds two such movies on the same day. Both films, from respected director Christopher Nolan, are among my favorites in all of his work. Nolan is the British film director behind hits such as The Dark Knight Trilogy and Oppenheimer, Although the first movie I saw was… Momento.

A journey through space and time

Nolan’s first film arrives on Netflix today Interstellar. The movie was released in 2014 – over a decade ago! – And it was written by Jonathan, Nolan’s brother. The film stars Matthew McConaughey as Joseph Cooper, a former NASA test pilot who turns to farming while raising his two children. Cooper is a widower and is raising his children with the help of his father-in-law, Donald (John Lithgow).

Interstellar Mixes micro-dystopia with space travel. The world in which Cooper lives is a post-truth society. His daughter’s teachers scolded him for teaching her that the Apollo missions were not fabricated. Dust storms sweep the countryside. It seems that humanity has given up. When Cooper discovers a strange anomaly on his farm, he finds himself stuck in a last-ditch effort to save humanity by venturing into space to travel through a wormhole near Saturn that leads to a distant star system. And while all of this is epic sci-fi at its best, the film is also deeply personal and surprisingly poignant. However, it has a long runtime, at 2 hours and 49 minutes, so make sure you allocate enough time to give it a proper viewing.

Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Michael Caine, Matt Damon, Casey Affleck and a number of other talented actors star in the film, including a young Timothée Chalamet in one of his first appearances (something I completely forgot, because I had no idea who he was when I watched this for the first time).

Interstellar It is not among Nolan’s most reviewed films, with critics giving it a 72% on Rotten Tomatoes. The audience liked it the most, with a rating of 87%. I thought the ending was great and powerful, but not all critics agreed. Ryan Serek of The Reader concluded: “A rotten conclusion. Preposterous, pseudo-intellectual, poorly constructed, hackneyed, impenetrably masculine, goofy, and possessed of an inexplicable ending, Interstellar is the mother of all mistakes. I don’t entirely agree, but per From them!

A journey into the mind

The second of the two must-watch sci-fi movies that just dropped on Netflix today is also a Christopher Nolan film, which was released several years ago. beginning, Written and directed by Nolan, Released in 2010, it created a buzz thanks to its engaging and twisty story and the film’s stunningly beautiful visual effects.

I consider this one of Nolan’s best and most memorable films (87% critic score, 91% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes) even though it lags behind. Memento, Dark Knight, Batman Begins, Prestige And relationships Oppenheimer When it comes to audience results, and Dunkirk and insomnia For critic grades (links Dark Knight with critics).

while Interstellar It is a dystopian saga of space travel, beginning It is a mind-boggling heist story, where burglaries happen‘Not banks or armored cars, but the human mind itself. Leonardo DiCaprio plays a professional thief named Cobb who infiltrates his targets’ subconscious to steal their thoughts using advanced technology that allows them to weave dreams together in order to get into someone’s mind and extract valuable information.

When he and his partner Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) are assigned to undertake an impossible mission – plant an idea in someone’s mind rather than escape from it – they form a specialist team and set off on their most dangerous heist yet. His new employer has offered him a clean slate, and he’s willing to take any risk for a chance at a fresh start. What follows is an action-packed three-way adventure into dreams and nightmares –Mission impossible On LSD.

The film’s ending remains one of the most ambiguous and controversial in modern cinema.

Check both Interstellar and beginning on Netflix, plus a bunch of other great movies that have just arrived on the streaming service including Meet the Parents, Schindler’s List and Bruce Almighty. And if you are still looking for space travel, Apollo 13 It also lands on Netflix today. Check out my weekend streaming guide for other great options too.