To celebrate French Toast Sunday’s 5th birthday, we will be counting down some of our favorite films from 2010 to 2014. By using a ranked score from our collective lists, we determine the overall highest rated choices. First up, we take a look at our favorite Sci Fi films from the past five years.

#05 /Interstellar

Even without Interstellar, Chris Nolan has had a huge impact on cinema in the last five years. The capper to his Dark Knight trilogy and the cerebral Inception solidified him as one of the best directors of his generation. So that’s why it’s so great that Interstellar – a movie about the human race searching for a new home planet – is a phenomenal movie that balances its sci-fi (space travel, robots, playing with time and physics) with its human element (an amazing cast led by Matthew McConaughey and a story that focuses on family and love). Christopher Nolan has a knack for showing us new and exciting things through phenomenal casts and I hope he sticks around for at least another five years. – Robert

#04 / Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Another instance where the sequel is better than its predecessor, this continuation in the ‘Apes’ Franchise adds depths of emotion on top of incredible special effects and presents an incredible story that moves you to the edge of your seat and back. – Nick

#03 / Gravity

Space is scary and that’s a message that about every third decade, one of our best directors demonstrate wonderfully. Following Kubrick’s and Ridley Scott’s footsteps, Alfonso Cuaron constructs an adventure that is tighter than a space suit and left thousands of cinemas drowning in piles and piles of fingernails. If you didn’t think Sandra Bullock kicked ass after All About Steve, her performance in Gravity will do the job. This one-woman-show (also starring George Clooney as ‘eye candy’) is proof enough that a female-centered movie can rock the box office – while failing the Bechdel test. Clearly, the eskimo should’ve been a woman; that is the film’s single flaw. – Mette

#02 / Looper

Time travel has been done many times before, countless, even, yet Rian Johnson found new and inventive directions to take with Looper. To begin with he has a cracking double team of Joseph Gordon Levitt and Bruce Willis playing the young and older version of the same guy in a near future in which Willis has jumped back in time and escaped being killed by his younger self. I’d expected them to team up and right wrongs together, but the brilliance of Looper is in heading down deeper, darker paths than could ever be contemplated. The “Fingers” scene still traumatizes me, as do some of Willis’ actions, but like the best sci-fi movies, the real draw here is how the situations make you think, and there’s a great deal of “What would you do?” that can be extrapolated from the movie. – Jay

#01 / Inception

Was there another movie in the past 5 years that felt quite so epic and original? It’s not often that a sci-fi concept feels deeply unique, but I can’t think of a similar movie. Christopher Nolan’s big budget blockbuster grand vision, artistic sensibility, and philosophical tendencies have never been more on point to me than Inception. Watching Leonardo DiCaprio lead a mission to incept a person’s brain through three levels of unconscious was mesmerizing filmmaking that hasn’t lost its luster over the years. And let’s be honest – who hasn’t debated whether that top was going to fall over at the end? – Jess