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Best Movies of 2020, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
132 films from 2020 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is The Father ('2020), at 8.2 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.2. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Hillbilly Elegy, 6.7 on IMDb against 38 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Father '2020 | Drama | 8.2 | 98% | 88 | 8.1 | Florian Zeller |
| 2 | Soul '2020 | Animation / Drama / Musical / Fantasy | 8.0 | 95% | 83 | 8.1 | Pete Docter |
| 3 | The Gentlemen '2020 | Action / Comedy / Crime | 7.8 | 75% | 51 | 7.7 | Guy Ritchie |
| 4 | Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train '2020 | Animation / Action / Fantasy | 8.2 | - | 72 | 8.2 | Haruo Sotozaki |
| 5 | Another Round '2020 | Drama | 7.7 | 93% | 79 | 7.6 | Thomas Vinterberg |
| 6 | The Trial of the Chicago 7 '2020 | Drama | 7.7 | 89% | 76 | 7.7 | Aaron Sorkin |
| 7 | Sound of Metal '2020 | Drama / Musical | 7.7 | 97% | 82 | 7.7 | Darius Marder |
| 8 | My Octopus Teacher '2020 | Documentary | 8.1 | 93% | 82 | 7.9 | Pippa Ehrlich |
| 9 | Promising Young Woman '2020 | Thriller / Crime / Drama | 7.5 | 90% | 72 | 7.4 | Emerald Fennell |
| 10 | Tenet '2020 | Action / Thriller / Sci-Fi | 7.3 | 70% | 69 | 7.2 | Christopher Nolan |
| 11 | Palm Springs '2020 | Comedy / Romance / Sci-Fi | 7.4 | 95% | 83 | 7.3 | Max Barbakow |
| 12 | The Social Dilemma '2020 | Documentary / Drama | 7.6 | 84% | 78 | 7.5 | Jeff Orlowski |
| 13 | Wolfwalkers '2020 | Animation / Fantasy | 8.0 | 99% | 87 | 8.2 | Tomm Moore |
| 14 | Onward '2020 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 7.3 | 88% | 61 | 7.6 | Dan Scanlon |
| 15 | Riders of Justice '2020 | Action / Comedy / Drama / Thriller | 7.5 | 96% | 81 | 7.3 | Anders Thomas Jensen |
| 16 | The Invisible Man '2020 | Thriller / Sci-Fi / Horror | 7.1 | - | 72 | 7.1 | Leigh Whannell |
| 17 | The Devil All the Time '2020 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.1 | 65% | 55 | 7.2 | Antonio Campos |
| 18 | The Courier '2020 | Thriller / Drama | 7.2 | 85% | 65 | 7.0 | Dominic Cooke |
| 19 | If Anything Happens I Love You '2020 | Drama / Animation | 7.8 | 100% | - | 7.7 | Michael Govier |
| 20 | Greyhound '2020 | War / Action / Drama | 7.0 | 77% | 64 | 7.4 | Aaron Schneider |
| 21 | The King of Staten Island '2020 | Comedy / Drama | 7.1 | 76% | 67 | 7.0 | Judd Apatow |
| 22 | The Banker '2020 | Drama | 7.3 | 78% | 59 | 7.6 | George Nolfi |
| 23 | Love and Monsters '2020 | Comedy / Fantasy | 6.9 | 94% | 63 | 7.3 | Michael Matthews |
| 24 | The Call '2020 | Thriller / Mystery / Sci-Fi | 7.1 | 46% | - | 7.5 | Lee Chung-hyun |
| 25 | Justice League Dark: Apokolips War '2020 | Animation / Action / Fantasy | 7.8 | 100% | - | 8.2 | Matt Peters |
| 26 | Extraction '2020 | Action / Thriller | 6.8 | 67% | 56 | 7.3 | Sam Hargrave |
| 27 | Pieces of a Woman '2020 | Drama | 7.0 | 76% | 66 | 7.0 | Kornél Mundruczó |
| 28 | Return '2020 | Animation | - | - | - | 6.4 | Jonathan Delgado Herrera |
| 29 | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom '2020 | Drama / Musical | 6.9 | 97% | 87 | 6.6 | George C. Wolfe |
| 30 | Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge '2020 | Animation / Action / Fantasy | 7.4 | 90% | - | 8.1 | Ethan Spaulding |
| 31 | The Croods: A New Age '2020 | Animation / Fantasy / Comedy | 6.9 | 76% | 56 | 7.4 | Joel Crawford |
| 32 | Mank '2020 | Drama | 6.8 | 83% | 79 | 6.7 | David Fincher |
| 33 | News of the World '2020 | Drama / Western | 6.8 | 88% | 73 | 6.9 | Paul Greengrass |
| 34 | Enola Holmes '2020 | Mystery / Crime | 6.7 | 91% | 68 | 7.2 | Harry Bradbeer |
| 35 | The Old Guard '2020 | Action / Fantasy | 6.7 | 80% | 70 | 7.1 | Gina Prince-Bythewood |
| 36 | The Outpost '2020 | War / Drama / Action | 6.9 | 91% | 71 | 6.9 | Rod Lurie |
| 37 | The Half of It '2020 | Comedy / Romance / Drama | 6.9 | 97% | 74 | 7.1 | Alice Wu |
| 38 | Clouds '2020 | Musical / Drama | 7.5 | 83% | 55 | 8.2 | Justin Baldoni |
| 39 | Rose Island '2020 | Comedy | 7.0 | 75% | - | 7.0 | Sydney Sibilia |
| 40 | Run '2020 | Thriller / Horror / Drama | 6.7 | 88% | 67 | 7.2 | Aneesh Chaganty |
| 41 | Escape from Pretoria '2020 | Drama / Thriller | 6.8 | 73% | 56 | 7.2 | Francis Annan |
| 42 | Emma. '2020 | Comedy / Romance / Drama | 6.7 | 86% | 71 | 7.0 | Autumn de Wilde |
| 43 | The Call of the Wild '2020 | Drama | 6.7 | 62% | 48 | 7.5 | Chris Sanders |
| 44 | Hillbilly Elegy '2020 | Drama | 6.7 | 24% | 38 | 6.7 | Ron Howard |
| 45 | The Way Back '2020 | Drama | 6.7 | 84% | 66 | 6.6 | Gavin O'Connor |
| 46 | Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan '2020 | Comedy | 6.6 | 85% | 68 | 6.4 | Jason Woliner |
| 47 | The Hunt '2020 | Action / Thriller / Horror | 6.6 | 57% | 50 | 6.7 | Craig Zobel |
| 48 | Summer of 85 '2020 | Romance / Drama | 6.9 | 82% | 65 | 7.4 | François Ozon |
| 49 | Saint Maud '2020 | Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 6.6 | 92% | 83 | 6.5 | Rose Glass |
| 50 | Happiest Season '2020 | Romance / Comedy | 6.6 | 82% | 69 | 7.1 | Clea DuVall |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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