(CNN) — Great sci-fi films are both fantastical and prescient. They can whisk viewers to a galaxy far, far away or exaggerate real scenarios on a fictionalized version of our planet. But the genre is at its best when it holds up a “fun house mirror to our present” and reveals something about the world […]
Great sci-fi films are both fantastical and prescient. They can whisk viewers to a galaxy far, far away or exaggerate real scenarios on a fictionalized version of our planet.
Films such as "Gattaca," "Her" and even "M3GAN" have predicted what our future might look like if developments in genetic editing and AI accelerate. Here's what those films get right — and what's still the stuff of science fiction.