Movie Auditor › Rankings › 2020s › Action
Best Action Movies of the 2020s, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
260 action films from the 2020s are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023), at 8.5 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.5. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Sound of Freedom, 7.6 on IMDb against 36 on Metacritic.
Filter, sort and search this list live
| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse '2023 | Animation / Action / Sci-Fi | 8.5 | 95% | 86 | 8.3 | Justin K. Thompson |
| 2 | Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender '2026 | Animation / Fantasy / Action | - | 90% | - | 9.0 | Lauren Montgomery |
| 3 | The Odyssey '2026 | Action / Fantasy | 8.4 | 94% | 88 | 8.0 | Christopher Nolan |
| 4 | Top Gun: Maverick '2022 | Action / Drama | 8.2 | 96% | 78 | 8.2 | Joseph Kosinski |
| 5 | Spider-Man: No Way Home '2021 | Action / Sci-Fi | 8.1 | 93% | 71 | 7.9 | Jon Watts |
| 6 | The Punisher: One Last Kill '2026 | Action / Drama / Crime | - | 73% | - | 8.3 | Reinaldo Marcus Green |
| 7 | Spider-Man: Brand New Day '2026 | Sci-Fi / Action | 8.0 | 90% | 66 | 8.5 | Destin Daniel Cretton |
| 8 | Zack Snyder's Justice League '2021 | Action / Fantasy | 7.9 | 71% | 54 | 8.1 | Zack Snyder |
| 9 | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 '2023 | Sci-Fi / Action | 7.9 | 82% | 64 | 7.9 | James Gunn |
| 10 | Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train '2020 | Animation / Action / Fantasy | 8.2 | - | 72 | 8.2 | Haruo Sotozaki |
| 11 | Everything Everywhere All at Once '2022 | Action / Sci-Fi | 7.7 | 93% | 81 | 7.7 | Daniel Scheinert |
| 12 | RRR '2022 | Action / Drama | 7.8 | 96% | 83 | 7.7 | S. S. Rajamouli |
| 13 | F1 '2025 | Action / Drama | 7.6 | 82% | 68 | 7.8 | Joseph Kosinski |
| 14 | Avatar: The Way of Water '2022 | Action / Sci-Fi | 7.5 | 76% | 67 | 7.6 | James Cameron |
| 15 | John Wick: Chapter 4 '2023 | Action / Thriller / Crime | 7.6 | 94% | 78 | 7.7 | Chad Stahelski |
| 16 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle '2025 | Animation / Action / Fantasy | 8.3 | 98% | 67 | 8.8 | Haruo Sotozaki |
| 17 | Sinners '2025 | Horror / Action / Thriller | 7.5 | 97% | 84 | 7.5 | Ryan Coogler |
| 18 | Deadpool & Wolverine '2024 | Action / Comedy / Sci-Fi | 7.5 | 77% | 56 | 7.6 | Shawn Levy |
| 19 | Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One '2023 | Action / Thriller | 7.6 | 96% | 81 | 7.5 | Christopher McQuarrie |
| 20 | Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc '2025 | Animation / Action / Romance / Fantasy | 8.3 | 96% | 71 | 8.5 | Tatsuya Yoshihara |
| 21 | Godzilla Minus One '2023 | Sci-Fi / Horror / Action | 7.6 | 99% | 81 | 7.6 | Takashi Yamazaki |
| 22 | Nobody '2021 | Action / Thriller | 7.4 | 83% | 64 | 7.9 | Ilya Naishuller |
| 23 | Tenet '2020 | Action / Thriller / Sci-Fi | 7.3 | 70% | 69 | 7.2 | Christopher Nolan |
| 24 | How to Train Your Dragon '2025 | Fantasy / Action | 7.7 | 78% | 61 | 7.9 | Dean DeBlois |
| 25 | Bullet Train '2022 | Action / Comedy / Thriller | 7.3 | 53% | 49 | 7.4 | David Leitch |
| 26 | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings '2021 | Action / Fantasy | 7.3 | 92% | 71 | 7.5 | Destin Daniel Cretton |
| 27 | No Time to Die '2021 | Action / Thriller | 7.3 | 83% | 68 | 7.3 | Cary Joji Fukunaga |
| 28 | Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga '2024 | Action / Sci-Fi | 7.4 | 90% | 79 | 7.4 | George Miller |
| 29 | Guy Ritchie's The Covenant '2023 | War / Action / Thriller | 7.5 | 82% | 63 | 7.7 | Guy Ritchie |
| 30 | Sound of Freedom '2023 | Action / Drama | 7.6 | 57% | 36 | 7.9 | Alejandro Monteverde |
| 31 | The Suicide Squad '2021 | Action / Comedy | 7.2 | - | 72 | 7.4 | James Gunn |
| 32 | Jujutsu Kaisen 0 '2021 | Animation / Action / Fantasy | 7.8 | 96% | 71 | 8.1 | Sunghoo Park |
| 33 | Riders of Justice '2020 | Action / Comedy / Drama / Thriller | 7.5 | 96% | 81 | 7.3 | Anders Thomas Jensen |
| 34 | Raya and the Last Dragon '2021 | Animation / Action / Fantasy | 7.3 | 93% | 74 | 7.8 | Don Hall |
| 35 | Thunderbolts* '2025 | Action / Sci-Fi | 7.1 | 88% | 68 | 7.3 | Jake Schreier |
| 36 | Predator: Badlands '2025 | Action / Sci-Fi | 7.2 | 86% | 71 | 7.8 | Dan Trachtenberg |
| 37 | Prey '2022 | Thriller / Action / Sci-Fi | 7.1 | 94% | 71 | 7.6 | Dan Trachtenberg |
| 38 | Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning '2025 | Action / Thriller | 7.1 | 80% | 67 | 7.2 | Christopher McQuarrie |
| 39 | Superman '2025 | Sci-Fi / Action | 7.0 | 83% | 68 | 7.3 | James Gunn |
| 40 | Predator: Killer of Killers '2025 | Animation / Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller | 7.4 | 94% | 78 | 7.8 | Dan Trachtenberg |
| 41 | The Northman '2022 | Action / Fantasy | 7.0 | 90% | 82 | 7.0 | Robert Eggers |
| 42 | Nimona '2023 | Animation / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Action | 7.5 | 92% | 75 | 7.9 | Nick Bruno |
| 43 | Warfare '2025 | War / Action | 7.1 | 92% | 78 | 7.0 | Ray Mendoza |
| 44 | Civil War '2024 | War / Action / Drama | 7.0 | 81% | 75 | 6.8 | Alex Garland |
| 45 | Gran Turismo '2023 | Drama / Action | 7.1 | - | 48 | 7.7 | Neill Blomkamp |
| 46 | Greyhound '2020 | War / Action / Drama | 7.0 | 77% | 64 | 7.4 | Aaron Schneider |
| 47 | The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent '2022 | Action / Comedy / Crime | 7.0 | 87% | 68 | 6.8 | Tom Gormican |
| 48 | Extraction 2 '2023 | Action / Thriller / Crime | 7.0 | 79% | 57 | 7.4 | Sam Hargrave |
| 49 | The Count of Monte Cristo '2024 | Action / Drama | 7.6 | 97% | 75 | 7.9 | Alexandre de La Patellière |
| 50 | Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die '2026 | Sci-Fi / Action / Comedy | 7.0 | - | 66 | 7.1 | Gore Verbinski |
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.
All action movies
All movies of the 2020s
Action in other decades
Action of the 1930s Action of the 1940s Action of the 1950s Action of the 1960s Action of the 1970s Action of the 1980s Action of the 1990s Action of the 2000s Action of the 2010s
Other genres in the 2020s
Animation of the 2020s Comedy of the 2020s Crime of the 2020s Drama of the 2020s Fantasy of the 2020s Horror of the 2020s Mystery of the 2020s Romance of the 2020s Sci-Fi of the 2020s Thriller of the 2020s
Directors on this list
Christopher Nolan Joseph Kosinski Jon Watts Zack Snyder James Gunn James Cameron Chad Stahelski Ryan Coogler Shawn Levy Christopher McQuarrie Dean DeBlois David Leitch
Actors on this list
Hailee Steinfeld Dave Bautista Matt Damon Tom Holland Tom Cruise Miles Teller Zendaya Jon Bernthal Ben Affleck Henry Cavill Chris Pratt Zoe Saldaña