The best sci-fi movies on Hulu right now

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy opens with a zany song sung by dolphins, and it only gets more ridiculous from there. This adaptation of Douglas Adams’ beloved sci-fi/comedy novel captures the late author’s sense of humor. Plus, it has the perfect straight man in Martin Freeman. His character, Arthur Dent, is an otherwise ordinary guy who just became the last human male alive.

It’s a good thing that there’s a woman, Trillian (Zooey Deschanel), who also escaped the destruction of the Earth. But before Arthur can have any kind of relationship with Trillian, he’ll have to survive his misadventures with her alongside Ford Prefect (Mos Def), Zaphod Beeblebrox (Sam Rockwell), and a clinically depressed robot named Marvin (Alan Rickman).

The worlds of Isaac Asimov and Will Smith collide in the 2004 adaptation of I, Robot, but the real star of the show is an android named Sonny (Alan Tudyk). Sonny is everything that robots aren’t supposed to be —friendly, emotional, and heartfelt. However, the issue at hand for Detective Del Spooner (Smith) is whether Sonny is also a murderer.

Sonny’s creator, Dr. Alfred Lanning (James Cromwell), went out of his way to befriend Spooner. That connection comes into play as Spooner investigates Lanning’s death. Sonny forcefully insists that he’s innocent, but it’s not the whole story. There’s a deeper mystery at hand, and unless Spooner can get to the bottom of it, the dynamic between humans and robots will dramatically shift in favor of the machines.

Ah, David Cronenberg. Never change. Crimes of the Future is Cronenberg’s first sci-fi film in two decades, and you really shouldn’t watch this movie while eating. It goes the full Cronenberg with disgusting sci-fi body horror. Viggo Mortensen stars as Saul Tenser, a man whose Accelerated Evolution Syndrome makes his body constantly produce new organs. So in this near future, Saul constantly has his organs removed as a piece of performance art by his partner, Caprice (Léa Seydoux). This actually sexually excites National Organ Registry agent Timlin (Love Lies Bleeding‘s Kristen Stewart), and it leads Saul into an even darker corner of the body modification underground.

Every morning is the same morning for Roy Pulver (Frank Grillo) in Boss Level, and each of those mornings he wakes up to the same assassin burying a machete in his headboard and a small army of colorful killers waiting for him outside. No matter what he does, Roy can’t manage to survive past 12:47 p.m., and that doesn’t change until a clue from his estranged wife puts him on the right path. Time loop movies are nothing new. Films like Groundhog Day, Edge of Tomorrow, and even Hulu’s own Palm Springs have turned the idea of living the same day over and over again into a subgenre all of its own. What sets Boss Level apart is the dark humor and perfectly over-the-top violence with which the story is told. It’s an action-packed and fun way to spend an hour and a half, with lots of blood and lots of laughs.