Example sentences for: sci-fi

How can you use “sci-fi” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The high-kitsch sci-fi blockbuster, set in 23 rd century New York and directed by French schlockmeister Luc Besson ( La Femme Nikita ), augurs not only the end of the world but, critics predict, the end of culture.

  • 5. The Iron Giant . Brad Bird's cartoon evocation of "leftist" '50s sci-fi is uncannily lyrical: It sums up an entire era of ideological genre moviemaking--and transcends it.

  • The Astronaut's Wife is one of the classiest terrible sci-fi movies you're likely to see.

  • Critics call this painfully predictable and clichéd futuristic sci-fi film a "mechanical, violent military-porn fantasy"(Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ): Shane meets Terminator meets Road Warrior . An extremely buff Kurt Russell plays the title soldier of the future who, when decommissioned, is relegated to the horrors of the slag heap planet, where he discovers human emotion and rises to the defense of his fellow outcasts.

  • If I sound sour compared with other critics, it's because I think Levinson missed a chance to get something unique and audacious on screen: the story of a thin-skinned Jewish kid who'd grow up to make autobiographical movies that somehow leave out the Jewishness and then get so enraged by a critic's offhand projection of Jewishness into a big WASPy sci-fi picture that he vows to go back and remake his other films with Jews instead of gentiles.


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