HBO Max is bursting at the seams with great sci-fi movies, from canonical classics to contemporary favorites. Here’s a list of the very best, mind-bending, universe-expanding movies there are to watch on the service.
Science fiction movies and TV often fetishize Asian culture and bodies, using the old "inscrutable Oriental" stereotype to create a futuristic techno-orientalism that denies Asian people depth or humanity. After Yang writer-director Kogonada explains how his film explores and refutes that trope, to tell the kind of story he rarely sees on screen.