The Best Sci-Fi Movie the Year You Were Born

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2000: X-Men
> IMDb score: 7.4 — #73 highest out of 1,183 movies
> Tomatometer score: 83% — #67 highest out of 1,183 movies
> Domestic box office: $267.3 million — #58 highest out of 1,183 movies
> Starring: Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen

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1999: The Matrix
> IMDb score: 8.7 — #2 highest out of 1,183 movies
> Tomatometer score: 85% — #54 highest out of 1,183 movies
> Domestic box office: $313.9 million — #46 highest out of 1,183 movies
> Starring: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving

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1998: The X Files
> IMDb score: 7.1 — #115 highest out of 1,183 movies
> Tomatometer score: 72% — #153 highest out of 1,183 movies
> Domestic box office: $163.9 million — #101 highest out of 1,183 movies
> Starring: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, John Neville, William B. Davis

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1997: Gattaca
> IMDb score: 7.8 — #38 highest out of 1,183 movies
> Tomatometer score: 87% — #38 highest out of 1,183 movies
> Domestic box office: $25 million — #358 highest out of 1,183 movies
> Starring: Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law, Gore Vidal

Source: Courtesy of Gramercy Pictures

1996: Mystery Science Theater 3000: the Movie
> IMDb score: 7.3 — #87 highest out of 1,183 movies
> Tomatometer score: 88% — #36 highest out of 1,183 movies
> Domestic box office: No data available
> Starring: Trace Beaulieu, Michael J. Nelson, Jim Mallon, Kevin Murphy

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1995: 12 Monkeys
> IMDb score: 8.0 — #19 highest out of 1,183 movies
> Tomatometer score: 88% — #36 highest out of 1,183 movies
> Domestic box office: $120.3 million — #137 highest out of 1,183 movies
> Starring: Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt, Joseph Melito

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1994: Stargate
> IMDb score: 7.1 — #115 highest out of 1,183 movies
> Tomatometer score: 73% — #139 highest out of 1,183 movies
> Domestic box office: $160.7 million — #104 highest out of 1,183 movies
> Starring: Kurt Russell, James Spader, Jaye Davidson, Viveca Lindfors

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1993: Jurassic Park
> IMDb score: 8.1 — #15 highest out of 1,183 movies
> Tomatometer score: 91% — #13 highest out of 1,183 movies
> Domestic box office: $890.6 million — #3 highest out of 1,183 movies
> Starring: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough

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1992: Forever Young
> IMDb score: 6.3 — #329 highest out of 1,183 movies
> Tomatometer score: 53% — #337 highest out of 1,183 movies
> Domestic box office: $123.5 million — #134 highest out of 1,183 movies
> Starring: Mel Gibson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Elijah Wood, Isabel Glasser

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1991: Terminator 2: Judgment Day
> IMDb score: 8.5 — #4 highest out of 1,183 movies
> Tomatometer score: 94% — #2 highest out of 1,183 movies
> Domestic box office: $442.7 million — #23 highest out of 1,183 movies
> Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick

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