The 2020s are almost half over, but it’s still too soon to determine if this decade will produce any of the best sci-fi movies of all time.

That’s not to say that there haven’t been some great science fiction movies in the last five years. The genre seems to be having a resurgence between theatrical releases and original streaming movies.

The Watch With Us team recently put together our picks for the 10 best sci-fi movies of the 2020s so far, but we reserve the right to revise the list if something better comes along.

We wouldn’t be shocked if one or more movies join this list by the end of 2025, including Avatar: Fire and Ash. But for now, the following films are the ones we selected.

If this list were for the best special effects in the sci-fi movies of the 2020s, then Avatar: The Way of Water would have been No. 1. Director James Cameron revisits the world of Pandora 16 years after the events of Avatar. In that time, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) and Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña) married and had children while living peacefully alongside the other Na’vi. That peace is shattered when human forces from the Resources Development Administration invade Pandora with an even larger assault force than before.