Moon

The first thing I noticed about Moon is that for a science-fiction film, the set is very human. The machines looked used and duct-taped together, and have sticky notes posted to them with instructions like "kick me". The living quarters are a comfortable mess. It's so much more realistic than those super art-designed classics that we all know and love, and which are often alluded to in the movie. For instance, the computer named Gerty (voiced by Kevin Spacey) is calm and soft-voiced, but it isn't evil or malicious, though of course you expect it to be. Sam Rockwell gives a brilliant, understated yet anguished performance as a man who's about to finish a three year solitary mining contract on the far side of the moon. Clearly, three years of solitude is too much for a man! Duncan Jones has made a really wonderful film... with no hyperbole, Moon was the best new movie I'd seen in quite a while, a quiet, humanist sci-fi tale.