After earning almost $700 million at the box office and proving popular on PVOD, 2026’s best sci-fi movie yet is now a huge hit on streaming. On Prime Video, for the past couple of weeks, Ryan Gosling‘s new sci-fi masterpiece, Project Hail Mary,has topped the charts, outperforming the likes of The Sheep Detectives, 2025’s Superman, and Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War, a follow-up to the hit action series starring John Krasinski.
Sure to earn recognition from the Academy in early 2027, Project Hail Mary has already earned widespread acclaim both critically and commercially. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller‘s adaptation of the 2021 novel by Andy Weir scored a near-perfect 9/10 in a review from Collider’s Ross Bonaime, who called it “the first great film of 2026.” But Project Hail Mary isn’t the only sci-fi movie of the year to deserve recognition, with perhaps the most criminally underrated of 2026 so far finally winning over viewers on streaming.
The film in question is Redux Redux, which incredibly has managed to score higher than Project Hail Mary on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, albeit from fewer submissions. After premiering at the South by Southwest Film Festival in 2025, the film received a limited theatrical release in February 2026. Redux Redux is directed by brothers Kevin McManus and Matthew McManus, who kept their casting search as local as possible when hiring their sister, Michaela McManus, to lead as Irene Kelly. At the time of writing, Redux Redux is the fifth-most-watched movie on Hulu in the U.S., a list topped by Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, the sequel to the 2019 horror hit directed by Radio Silence duo Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett.
Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Personality Quiz Which Sci-Fi Hero Are You Most Like? Paul Atreides · Captain Kirk · Princess Leia · Ellen Ripley · Max Rockatansky
Five iconic heroes. Five completely different ways of facing an impossible universe. One of them shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of refusing to back down. Eight questions will tell you which one.
🏜️Paul Atreides
🖖Capt. Kirk
✊Princess Leia
🔦Ellen Ripley
🔥Max Rockatansky
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How do you lead when the stakes couldn’t be higher? The way you lead under pressure is the most honest thing about you.
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What is your greatest strength in a crisis? The quality that keeps you alive when everything else fails.
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What is the thing you’d sacrifice everything else for? Your deepest motivation is your truest compass.
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How do you relate to the people around you? Who you are to others under pressure is who you really are.
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You’re facing a threat that no one else believes is real. What do you do? How you respond when you’re the only one who sees it defines everything.
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What has your heroism cost you personally? Every hero pays. The question is what — and whether they’d pay it again.
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How do you feel about the rules of the world you’re in? Every hero has a relationship with the system. What’s yours?
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When everything is on the line, what keeps you going? The answer is the most honest thing about you.
Your Hero Has Been Identified Your Sci-Fi Hero Is…
Your answers point to the iconic sci-fi hero who shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of facing the impossible.
Arrakis · Dune
Paul Atreides
You carry a weight most people would crumble under — the knowledge of what you’re capable of, and the burden of what you might have to become.
You see further ahead than others and you plan accordingly, even when the vision frightens you.
You are driven by loyalty to your people and a sense of destiny you didn’t ask for but can’t escape.
Paul Atreides is not simply a hero — he is someone who understands the cost of power and chooses to bear it anyway.
That gravity, that willingness to carry what others won’t, is exactly you.
USS Enterprise · Star Trek
Captain Kirk
You lead with instinct, warmth, and an absolute refusal to accept a no-win scenario — because you’ve always believed there’s a third option nobody else has thought of yet.
You take the mission seriously without ever taking yourself too seriously.
Your crew would follow you anywhere, not because you demand it, but because you’ve earned it.
Kirk’s genius isn’t tactical — it’s human. He reads people, bends rules with purpose, and wills outcomes into existence through sheer conviction.
That combination of warmth, audacity, and relentless optimism is unmistakably yours.
The Rebellion · Star Wars
Princess Leia
You are the kind of person who holds the line when everyone else is losing faith — not because you’re fearless, but because giving up simply isn’t something you’re capable of.
You lead through conviction. Your voice carries because your belief is unshakeable.
You gave up everything ordinary the moment you chose the cause, and you’ve never looked back.
Leia is not a supporting character in her own story — she is the moral centre of the entire rebellion.
That same fierce, principled, unbreakable core is what defines you.
The Nostromo · Alien
Ellen Ripley
You are not reckless, not grandiose, and not particularly interested in being anyone’s hero — you just refuse to stop when it matters.
You see threats clearly, you document the truth even when no one listens, and when the time comes you handle it yourself.
Ripley’s heroism is earned, not performed. She doesn’t have a speech — she has a flamethrower and a plan.
You share her composure under the worst possible pressure, and her refusal to pretend the monster isn’t there.
When it counts, you don’t flinch. That’s everything.
The Wasteland · Mad Max
Max Rockatansky
You have been through fire that would break most people — and what came out the other side is something the world underestimates at its peril.
You don’t ask for help, don’t need validation, and don’t wait for anyone to tell you the rules no longer apply.
Your loyalty, when it finally arrives, is absolute — but it’s earned in silence and tested in action, not in words.
Max is not a nihilist. He is someone who lost everything and found, against his will, that he still has something worth protecting.
That bruised, stubborn, ultimately human core is exactly yours.
‘Redux Redux’ Earned Praise From Critics
So good they named it twice, Redux Redux was an instant hit with those lucky enough to catch it at SXSW. The film was called “better than most multiverse movies” in Collider’s review from back in February, which is quite the praise considering the success of the likes of Everything Everywhere All At Once and Avengers: Endgame. “Redux Redux is a strong indie sci-fi film that will make you excited to see what the McManus brothers have up their sleeves for next time,” the review concluded.
Redux Redux is the fifth-most-watched movie on Hulu in the U.S. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
