


Though Peele routinely prods at the Hollywood machine and its spectacles, here he unlades it all: Image-making as brutality, catharsis, posterity, surveillance, homage, indulgence. Stars: Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Steven YeunĪmong his most amusing directorial quirks, Jordan Peele appreciates the melodrama of a good biblical citation: 2019’s killer doppelgänger vehicle Us tirelessly invokes Jeremiah 11:11 and his latest effort Nope opens with Nahum 3:6: “I will cast abominable filth upon you, make you vile, and make you a spectacle.” It’s that last clause which perfuses Nope, a shrewd, tactile yarn about a brother-sister rancher duo in pursuit of video evidence of a UFO circling their home. Here are the 15 best sci-fi movies streaming on Amazon Prime: You may also want to consult the following, sci-fi centric lists: And also, you can watch The Tomorrow War if you feel really inclined.

We’ve dug through pages and pages of free sci-fi offerings for Amazon Prime members and found a handful worth your time, from hilarious satires to graphically violent satires, from iconic, controversial picks to a few from as recently as last year. The sci-fi movie selection on Amazon Prime isn’t what it used to be, but the selections it does have are all over the map-classic sci-fi from the 1970s and ’80s, recent blockbusters, indie gems-and representative of such a dearth of quality, buttressed by butt-loads of low-budget B-movies, that browsing for the good stuff is more than difficult.
