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Science fiction rewards a chronological run more than most genres, because you can watch the anxieties change decade by decade: nuclear, then corporate, then computational. Random order works too, and jolts harder: a seventies paranoia film straight after a modern one makes both stranger. Thirty-five titles, weighted toward films that did something first rather than biggest. Several are slow by current standards; that is a feature, and the slow ones are mostly the great ones.
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