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Best Movies of the 2020s, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
800 films from the 2020s are in our catalog; the 100 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Dune: Part Two ('2024), at 8.4 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.7. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Sound of Freedom, 7.6 on IMDb against 36 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dune: Part Two '2024 | Sci-Fi | 8.4 | 92% | 79 | 8.1 | Denis Villeneuve |
| 2 | Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse '2023 | Animation / Action / Sci-Fi | 8.5 | 95% | 86 | 8.3 | Kemp Powers |
| 3 | Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender '2026 | Animation / Fantasy / Action | - | 90% | - | 9.1 | Lauren Montgomery |
| 4 | The Odyssey '2026 | Action / Fantasy | 8.4 | 94% | 88 | 8.0 | Christopher Nolan |
| 5 | Top Gun: Maverick '2022 | Action / Drama | 8.2 | 96% | 78 | 8.2 | Joseph Kosinski |
| 6 | Oppenheimer '2023 | Drama | 8.2 | 93% | 90 | 8.0 | Christopher Nolan |
| 7 | Project Hail Mary '2026 | Sci-Fi | 8.2 | 95% | 77 | 8.6 | Phil Lord |
| 8 | Spider-Man: No Way Home '2021 | Action / Sci-Fi | 8.1 | 93% | 71 | 7.9 | Jon Watts |
| 9 | The Punisher: One Last Kill '2026 | Action / Drama / Crime | - | 73% | - | 8.3 | Reinaldo Marcus Green |
| 10 | Dune '2021 | Sci-Fi | 8.0 | 83% | 74 | 7.8 | Denis Villeneuve |
| 11 | The Father '2020 | Drama | 8.2 | 98% | 88 | 8.1 | Florian Zeller |
| 12 | Soul '2020 | Animation / Drama / Musical / Fantasy | 8.0 | 95% | 83 | 8.1 | Pete Docter |
| 13 | Spider-Man: Brand New Day '2026 | Sci-Fi / Action | 8.0 | 90% | 66 | 8.5 | Destin Daniel Cretton |
| 14 | Zack Snyder's Justice League '2021 | Action / Fantasy | 7.9 | 71% | 54 | 8.1 | Zack Snyder |
| 15 | The Batman '2022 | Crime / Mystery / Thriller | 7.8 | 85% | 72 | 7.7 | Matt Reeves |
| 16 | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 '2023 | Sci-Fi / Action | 7.9 | 82% | 64 | 7.9 | James Gunn |
| 17 | The Gentlemen '2020 | Action / Comedy / Crime | 7.8 | 75% | 51 | 7.7 | Guy Ritchie |
| 18 | The Wild Robot '2024 | Animation / Sci-Fi | 8.1 | 97% | 85 | 8.3 | Chris Sanders |
| 19 | CODA '2021 | Drama / Musical / Romance | 8.0 | 94% | 72 | 7.9 | Sian Heder |
| 20 | Obsession '2026 | Horror / Thriller | 7.8 | 93% | 77 | 8.2 | Curry Barker |
| 21 | Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train '2020 | Animation / Action / Fantasy | 8.2 | - | 72 | 8.2 | Haruo Sotozaki |
| 22 | Everything Everywhere All at Once '2022 | Action / Sci-Fi | 7.7 | 93% | 81 | 7.7 | Daniel Scheinert |
| 23 | All Quiet on the Western Front '2022 | War / Drama | 7.8 | 90% | 76 | 7.7 | Edward Berger |
| 24 | Puss in Boots: The Last Wish '2022 | Animation / Fantasy / Comedy | 7.9 | - | 73 | 8.2 | Joel Crawford |
| 25 | The Holdovers '2023 | Drama / Comedy | 7.9 | 97% | 82 | 7.6 | Alexander Payne |
| 26 | I'm Still Here '2024 | Drama | 8.1 | - | 85 | 7.9 | Walter Salles |
| 27 | Poor Things '2023 | Sci-Fi / Romance / Comedy | 7.7 | 92% | 88 | 7.6 | Yorgos Lanthimos |
| 28 | Resident Evil '2026 | Horror / Sci-Fi | - | 96% | - | 7.3 | Zach Cregger |
| 29 | Another Round '2020 | Drama | 7.7 | 93% | 79 | 7.6 | Thomas Vinterberg |
| 30 | RRR '2022 | Action / Drama | 7.8 | 96% | 83 | 7.7 | S. S. Rajamouli |
| 31 | The Trial of the Chicago 7 '2020 | Drama | 7.7 | 89% | 76 | 7.7 | Aaron Sorkin |
| 32 | One Battle After Another '2025 | Thriller / Crime / Comedy | 7.6 | 94% | 95 | 7.3 | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 33 | Sound of Metal '2020 | Drama / Musical | 7.7 | 97% | 82 | 7.7 | Darius Marder |
| 34 | F1 '2025 | Action / Drama | 7.6 | 82% | 68 | 7.8 | Joseph Kosinski |
| 35 | Avatar: The Way of Water '2022 | Action / Sci-Fi | 7.5 | 76% | 67 | 7.6 | James Cameron |
| 36 | John Wick: Chapter 4 '2023 | Action / Thriller / Crime | 7.6 | 94% | 78 | 7.7 | Chad Stahelski |
| 37 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle '2025 | Animation / Action / Fantasy | 8.3 | 98% | 67 | 8.8 | Haruo Sotozaki |
| 38 | My Octopus Teacher '2020 | Documentary | 8.1 | 93% | 82 | 7.9 | Pippa Ehrlich |
| 39 | The Whale '2022 | Drama | 7.6 | 64% | 60 | 7.8 | Darren Aronofsky |
| 40 | Sinners '2025 | Horror / Action / Thriller | 7.5 | 97% | 84 | 7.5 | Ryan Coogler |
| 41 | Deadpool & Wolverine '2024 | Action / Comedy / Sci-Fi | 7.5 | 77% | 56 | 7.6 | Shawn Levy |
| 42 | The Banshees of Inisherin '2022 | Drama / Comedy | 7.6 | 96% | 87 | 7.5 | Martin McDonagh |
| 43 | Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One '2023 | Action / Thriller | 7.6 | 96% | 81 | 7.5 | Christopher McQuarrie |
| 44 | Past Lives '2023 | Drama / Romance | 7.8 | 95% | 94 | 7.7 | Celine Song |
| 45 | Society of the Snow '2023 | Drama | 7.8 | 90% | 72 | 8.0 | J. A. Bayona |
| 46 | Promising Young Woman '2020 | Thriller / Crime / Drama | 7.5 | 90% | 72 | 7.4 | Emerald Fennell |
| 47 | Hamnet '2025 | Drama / Romance | 7.8 | 86% | 84 | 7.7 | Chloé Zhao |
| 48 | Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc '2025 | Animation / Action / Romance / Fantasy | 8.3 | 96% | 71 | 8.5 | Tatsuya Yoshihara |
| 49 | Flow '2024 | Animation / Fantasy | 7.8 | 97% | 87 | 8.1 | Gints Zilbalodis |
| 50 | Anatomy of a Fall '2023 | Thriller / Mystery / Crime | 7.6 | 96% | 86 | 7.5 | Justine Triet |
| 51 | Godzilla Minus One '2023 | Sci-Fi / Horror / Action | 7.6 | 99% | 81 | 7.6 | Takashi Yamazaki |
| 52 | Killers of the Flower Moon '2023 | Crime / Drama | 7.5 | 93% | 89 | 7.4 | Martin Scorsese |
| 53 | Nobody '2021 | Action / Thriller | 7.4 | 83% | 64 | 7.9 | Ilya Naishuller |
| 54 | Tenet '2020 | Action / Thriller / Sci-Fi | 7.3 | 70% | 69 | 7.2 | Christopher Nolan |
| 55 | Weapons '2025 | Horror / Mystery | 7.4 | 93% | 81 | 7.3 | Zach Cregger |
| 56 | How to Train Your Dragon '2025 | Fantasy / Action | 7.7 | 78% | 61 | 7.9 | Dean DeBlois |
| 57 | The Worst Person in the World '2021 | Drama / Romance / Comedy | 7.7 | 96% | 91 | 7.4 | Joachim Trier |
| 58 | Perfect Days '2023 | Drama | 7.9 | 96% | 80 | 7.8 | Wim Wenders |
| 59 | Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio '2022 | Animation / Fantasy / Drama | 7.6 | 27% | 79 | 8.0 | Mark Gustafson |
| 60 | Frankenstein '2025 | Drama / Fantasy / Horror | 7.4 | 85% | 78 | 7.6 | Guillermo del Toro |
| 61 | Marty Supreme '2025 | Drama / Thriller | 7.5 | 93% | 89 | 7.4 | Josh Safdie |
| 62 | Inside Out 2 '2024 | Animation / Comedy | 7.5 | 91% | 73 | 7.5 | Kelsey Mann |
| 63 | A Man Called Otto '2022 | Comedy / Drama | 7.5 | 70% | 51 | 7.7 | Marc Forster |
| 64 | Palm Springs '2020 | Comedy / Romance / Sci-Fi | 7.4 | 95% | 83 | 7.3 | Max Barbakow |
| 65 | King Richard '2021 | Drama | 7.5 | 90% | 76 | 7.6 | Reinaldo Marcus Green |
| 66 | Bullet Train '2022 | Action / Comedy / Thriller | 7.3 | 53% | 49 | 7.4 | David Leitch |
| 67 | The Mitchells vs. the Machines '2021 | Animation / Comedy | 7.6 | 97% | 81 | 7.8 | Mike Rianda |
| 68 | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings '2021 | Action / Fantasy | 7.3 | 92% | 71 | 7.5 | Destin Daniel Cretton |
| 69 | No Time to Die '2021 | Action / Thriller | 7.3 | 83% | 68 | 7.3 | Cary Joji Fukunaga |
| 70 | Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga '2024 | Action / Sci-Fi | 7.4 | 90% | 79 | 7.4 | George Miller |
| 71 | Guy Ritchie's The Covenant '2023 | War / Action / Thriller | 7.5 | 82% | 63 | 7.7 | Guy Ritchie |
| 72 | Anora '2024 | Drama / Comedy / Romance | 7.4 | 93% | 91 | 7.1 | Sean Baker |
| 73 | Michael '2026 | Musical / Drama | 7.4 | 38% | 39 | 8.6 | Antoine Fuqua |
| 74 | Friends: The Reunion '2021 | Documentary / Comedy | 8.0 | 67% | - | 7.8 | Ben Winston |
| 75 | The Social Dilemma '2020 | Documentary / Drama | 7.6 | 84% | 78 | 7.5 | Jeff Orlowski |
| 76 | Conclave '2024 | Drama / Thriller | 7.4 | 93% | 79 | 7.2 | Edward Berger |
| 77 | Aftersun '2022 | Drama | 7.6 | 96% | 95 | 7.7 | Charlotte Wells |
| 78 | Luca '2021 | Animation / Fantasy / Drama / Comedy | 7.4 | 91% | 71 | 7.8 | Enrico Casarosa |
| 79 | Bugonia '2025 | Sci-Fi / Thriller / Comedy | 7.4 | 87% | 72 | 7.3 | Yorgos Lanthimos |
| 80 | Wolfwalkers '2020 | Animation / Fantasy | 8.0 | 99% | 87 | 8.2 | Tomm Moore |
| 81 | Sound of Freedom '2023 | Action / Drama | 7.6 | 57% | 36 | 7.9 | Alejandro Monteverde |
| 82 | Cruella '2021 | Comedy / Crime | 7.3 | 75% | 59 | 8.0 | Craig Gillespie |
| 83 | Thirteen Lives '2022 | Drama / Thriller | 7.8 | 85% | 66 | 7.8 | Ron Howard |
| 84 | Sentimental Value '2025 | Drama / Comedy | 7.7 | 95% | 86 | 7.5 | Joachim Trier |
| 85 | Onward '2020 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 7.3 | 88% | 61 | 7.6 | Dan Scanlon |
| 86 | American Fiction '2023 | Comedy / Drama | 7.5 | 93% | 81 | 7.2 | Cord Jefferson |
| 87 | The Fabelmans '2022 | Drama | 7.5 | 92% | 85 | 7.6 | Steven Spielberg |
| 88 | Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery '2025 | Thriller / Mystery / Comedy | 7.3 | - | 80 | 7.2 | Rian Johnson |
| 89 | tick, tick... BOOM! '2021 | Drama / Musical | 7.5 | 87% | 74 | 7.6 | Lin-Manuel Miranda |
| 90 | Elvis '2022 | Musical / Drama | 7.3 | 77% | 64 | 7.4 | Baz Luhrmann |
| 91 | The Suicide Squad '2021 | Action / Comedy | 7.2 | - | 72 | 7.4 | James Gunn |
| 92 | Air '2023 | Drama | 7.4 | 93% | 73 | 7.3 | Ben Affleck |
| 93 | The Sheep Detectives '2026 | Comedy / Mystery | 7.4 | 95% | 72 | 7.9 | Kyle Balda |
| 94 | Nomadland '2021 | Drama | 7.3 | 93% | 87 | 7.2 | Chloé Zhao |
| 95 | The Substance '2024 | Horror / Sci-Fi | 7.2 | 89% | 78 | 7.1 | Coralie Fargeat |
| 96 | Train Dreams '2025 | Drama | 7.5 | 93% | 88 | 7.3 | Clint Bentley |
| 97 | The Last Duel '2021 | Drama | 7.3 | 85% | 67 | 7.4 | Ridley Scott |
| 98 | Jujutsu Kaisen 0 '2021 | Animation / Action / Fantasy | 7.8 | 96% | 71 | 8.1 | Sunghoo Park |
| 99 | Wicked '2024 | Drama / Romance / Fantasy | 7.3 | 88% | 73 | 6.9 | Jon M. Chu |
| 100 | KPop Demon Hunters '2025 | Fantasy / Musical / Comedy / Animation | 7.4 | 92% | 77 | 8.0 | Chris Appelhans |
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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