Arrival
2016 · Science fiction · Denis Villeneuve · 1h 56m
Twelve alien craft arrive without explanation, and a linguist is brought in to work out how to ask them what they want. Most of it is the slow business of translation.
- Strongly complicated
- Clearly fantastic
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Blade Runner 2049
92% alike
2017 · Science fiction
A police officer whose job is retiring old synthetic humans turns up a buried secret and goes looking for a man who disappeared thirty years earlier. Slow, very large, and mostly quiet.
- Strongly fantastic
- Clearly epic
- Clearly slow
- Clearly complicated
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The Fountain
89% alike
2006 · Drama
Three stories a thousand years apart, all about a man trying to keep one woman from dying. Short, and it cuts between them without explanation.
- Strongly heavy
- Strongly complicated
- Strongly fantastic
- Clearly character-driven
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2025 · Science fiction
In a future where people gave up dreaming in exchange for long life, a woman finds a creature who still dreams and gives him a projector to relive a century of past lives. Long segments, each its own world, and no straight line through it.
- Strongly fantastic
- Strongly complicated
- Strongly epic
- Clearly slow
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