10) Self/less (opens July 10, wide)
The quote-unquote biggest movie on this list, The Cell director Tarsem Singh’s sci-fi thriller Self/less has attracted shockingly little buzz in the months leading up to its plum summer release. It stars Ben Kingsley as a wealthy man dying from cancer, who undergoes an experimental procedure to transfer his mind into the supposedly vacant body of a younger man (Ryan Reynolds). As the man begins to discover where his new body came from, he learns that he has entered into a partnership with a nefarious organization that will kill to protect itself.
Though most summer sci-fi offerings are veritable wastes of celluloid (see: Lucy, Transcendence), Ex Machina showed there’s still an appetite for fresh, creative stories in the genre, and Self/less has a story that could surprise us all equally.