
2000
Battle Royale
A class, a collar and one boy who refuses to play.
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Every published sci-fi review and retrospective currently in the Movies in the 00s library.

2000
A class, a collar and one boy who refuses to play.
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2000
A handful of strangers, a planet that hates daylight and one criminal you reluctantly need to survive.
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2000
A rom‑com with a literal ear for gender — and a lead who still makes its fantasy feel oddly persuasive.
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2000
A superhero movie about being othered — with a very angry Canadian in the middle of it.
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2001
A manufactured child's longing, a Pinocchio road-trip and a Spielberg film that still asks what makes us human.
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2001
A suburban teen, a man in a rabbit suit and a jet engine — and a film that still asks whether we choose or are chosen.
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2001
"Hey, You're lucky you weren't alive during the Microsoft conflict. Hell, we would have been beating each other with own severed limbs"
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2001
A compact, teeth-first rescue movie that still belongs to Sam Neill's stubborn, sensible Dr. Alan Grant.
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2001
Privilege, prosthetics and lucid dreams — a love story that keeps asking which is awake.
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2002
A bleak city, a daily pill, and one enforcer who remembers how to feel.
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2002
A tiny girl, a chaotic alien and a very awkward attempt at family — and it still makes you care.
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2002
Buddy cop banter, shapeshifting menace and a hero who refuses to stop trying.
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2002
A high-speed thriller about a man who trusted a machine until the machine pointed a finger at him.
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2002
Amnesia, corporate nastiness and one very determined woman — Resident Evil still bites.
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2002
Obi‑Wan keeps digging while the Republic builds its army — and one young man falls apart.
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2003
A childhood wound made monstrous — Ang Lee’s Hulk still asks what happens when science, fathers and suppressed anger meet.
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2003
A reprogrammed protector, an upgraded hunter and a question the franchise keeps asking: can we outrun the future?
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2003
A blockbuster middle chapter that still asks big questions while handing you a bewildering set of action spectacles.
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2003
A school under siege, a reluctant alliance, and Professor Xavier holding the room together.
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2004
A love story that keeps insisting you remember it — even when the film forgets for you.
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2004
A sceptical detective, a thinking robot and the Three Laws — still worth a watch.
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2004
A biohazard blockbuster built around one woman and a corporation with very bad ideas.
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2004
Vin Diesel’s fugitive antihero, a crusading empire, and a universe that got a lot bigger — loudly.
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2004
Father, science and spectacle — Roland Emmerich's climate disaster in one loud breath.
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2005
A stretched-out genius, a bloke made of rock and a bloke on fire — and Reed Richards holding the whole thing together.
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2005
The political coup, the love that unravels a man — and one heartbreaking fall everyone still argues about.
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2005
A late-00s Bay blockbuster that asks: when your body is a commodity, who gets to be human?
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2005
A masked revenge play about ideas, identity and whether a single symbol can topple a regime.
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2005
A father, two kids and a city falling apart — Spielberg turns an alien invasion into a family road movie.
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2006
A single pregnancy, a tired man and a camera that refuses to blink.
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2006
A grieving cop, a blurred time-window and a surveillance system that refuses to stay in its lane.
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2006
A very average man wakes up to a very extreme future — and that's the joke, and the warning.
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2006
Mutant cure, Phoenix meltdown and one adamantium-clawed reason to keep watching.
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2007
Military order, family mess — London is secured until someone brings home the wrong thing.
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2007
A siege movie with monsters outside and something worse inside.
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2007
A coming-of-age wrapped in chrome: Sam, a yellow car and the thing everyone wants.
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2008
A monster movie that’s really about friendship, an old camcorder and a city that suddenly feels fragile.
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2008
An ageing hero, Soviets, a spooky skull and 1950s sci‑fi swagger — Indiana Jones back in the Atomic Age.
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2008
A billionaire, a cave and a suit — and a decision that changes everything.
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2008
A fugitive, a scientist and a very angry green man — and a film that remembers why the Hulk is a tragedy as much as a smash.
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2008
A tiny robot, a stubborn plant and a lot of things we probably recognise in the mirror.
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Big green world, bigger feelings: Jake Sully makes Avatar land.
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2009
An awkward bureaucrat, an alien slum and an idea that refuses to be polite.
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