2024 Hit Film Was Just Ranked the 'Perfect Sci-Fi Movie of the Last 5 Years'

Audiences have always flocked to science fiction movies, especially within the past decade or so. That being said, not all recent sci-fimovies are of the same caliber.

Colliderrecently shared a list of the top 10 “most perfect sci-fi movies of the last five years.” The ranking, published on May 2, included hit films like Nope, released in 2022, 2026’s Project Hail Mary, Frankenstein from 2025, 2024’s Furiosa, 2022’s Everything Everywhere All at Once, and 2023’s Godzilla Minus One.

The publication named Dune: Part Two, released in 2024, the “most perfect” film from the science fiction genre since 2021.

Dune: Part Two, which has a 2-hour and 46-minute run time, has a 92 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and a score of 79 on Metacritic.

Denis Villeneuve Revealed How He Adapted ‘Dune’

In a November 2024 interview with fellow director Christopher Nolan, Denis Villeneuve, who directed and co-wrote both Dune: Part One and Dune: Part Two, discussed adapting Frank Herbert‘s first Dune book, released in 1965. Villeneuve explained that when crafting the screenplays for Dune: Part One and Dune: Part Two, he wanted to “create as much cinema and not falling into too much exposition.”

He also shared that while he wanted to be faithful to the Dune novel, there were some details absent from the book that he had to “fill [in] the gap.” The director explained that there’s nothing in the novel about how one would ride the sandworm.

In addition, Villeneuve said he wanted to honor Herbert’s desire not to have Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) be celebrated.

“[Herbert] wanted to do a cautionary tale a warning against charismatic figures,” said Villeneuve during the 2024 interview.

Villeneuve said he decided to make the message of his film “clear for the audience that Paul became a colonizer himself” and not a savior. One way he did so was to change Chani’s (Zendaya) characterization from how she’s presented in the Dune book.

“In the book, she’s in the shadow of Paul. In the second half of the book, she disappear in his shadow. She’s a believer. She follows him. And I thought that there was a opportunity there to have her become our moral compass,” said Villeneuve to Nolan.