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Best Comedy Movies of the 2020s, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
229 comedy films from the 2020s are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is The Gentlemen (2020), at 7.8 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.4. Biggest split between audiences and critics: The Gentlemen, 7.8 on IMDb against 51 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Gentlemen '2020 | Comedy / Crime | 7.8 | 75% | 51 | 7.7 | Guy Ritchie |
| 2 | Puss in Boots: The Last Wish '2022 | Animation / Fantasy / Comedy | 7.9 | - | 73 | 8.2 | Joel Crawford |
| 3 | The Holdovers '2023 | Drama / Comedy | 7.9 | 97% | 82 | 7.6 | Alexander Payne |
| 4 | Poor Things '2023 | Sci-Fi / Romance / Comedy | 7.7 | 92% | 88 | 7.6 | Yorgos Lanthimos |
| 5 | One Battle After Another '2025 | Thriller / Crime / Comedy | 7.6 | 94% | 95 | 7.3 | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 6 | Deadpool & Wolverine '2024 | Action / Comedy / Sci-Fi | 7.5 | 77% | 56 | 7.6 | Shawn Levy |
| 7 | The Banshees of Inisherin '2022 | Drama / Comedy | 7.6 | 96% | 87 | 7.5 | Martin McDonagh |
| 8 | The Worst Person in the World '2021 | Drama / Romance / Comedy | 7.7 | 96% | 91 | 7.4 | Joachim Trier |
| 9 | Inside Out 2 '2024 | Animation / Comedy | 7.5 | 91% | 73 | 7.5 | Kelsey Mann |
| 10 | A Man Called Otto '2022 | Comedy / Drama | 7.5 | 70% | 51 | 7.7 | Marc Forster |
| 11 | Palm Springs '2020 | Comedy / Romance / Sci-Fi | 7.4 | 95% | 83 | 7.3 | Max Barbakow |
| 12 | Bullet Train '2022 | Action / Comedy / Thriller | 7.3 | 53% | 49 | 7.4 | David Leitch |
| 13 | The Mitchells vs. the Machines '2021 | Animation / Comedy | 7.6 | 97% | 81 | 7.8 | Mike Rianda |
| 14 | Anora '2024 | Drama / Comedy / Romance | 7.4 | 93% | 91 | 7.1 | Sean Baker |
| 15 | Friends: The Reunion '2021 | Documentary / Comedy | 8.0 | 67% | - | 7.8 | Ben Winston |
| 16 | Luca '2021 | Animation / Fantasy / Drama / Comedy | 7.4 | 91% | 71 | 7.8 | Enrico Casarosa |
| 17 | Bugonia '2025 | Sci-Fi / Thriller / Comedy | 7.4 | 87% | 72 | 7.3 | Yorgos Lanthimos |
| 18 | Cruella '2021 | Comedy / Crime | 7.3 | 75% | 59 | 8.0 | Craig Gillespie |
| 19 | Onward '2020 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 7.3 | 88% | 61 | 7.6 | Dan Scanlon |
| 20 | American Fiction '2023 | Comedy / Drama | 7.5 | 93% | 81 | 7.2 | Cord Jefferson |
| 21 | Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery '2025 | Thriller / Mystery / Comedy | 7.3 | - | 80 | 7.2 | Rian Johnson |
| 22 | The Suicide Squad '2021 | Action / Comedy | 7.2 | - | 72 | 7.4 | James Gunn |
| 23 | The Sheep Detectives '2026 | Comedy / Mystery | 7.4 | 95% | 72 | 7.9 | Kyle Balda |
| 24 | KPop Demon Hunters '2025 | Fantasy / Musical / Comedy / Animation | 7.4 | 92% | 77 | 8.0 | Chris Appelhans |
| 25 | Riders of Justice '2020 | Action / Comedy / Drama / Thriller | 7.5 | 96% | 81 | 7.3 | Anders Thomas Jensen |
| 26 | Encanto '2021 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 7.2 | - | 75 | 7.6 | Byron Howard |
| 27 | Don't Look Up '2021 | Comedy / Sci-Fi / Drama | 7.1 | - | 49 | 7.1 | Adam McKay |
| 28 | Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery '2022 | Comedy / Crime / Mystery | 7.1 | 91% | 81 | 7.0 | Rian Johnson |
| 29 | Hustle '2022 | Drama / Comedy | 7.3 | 94% | 68 | 7.7 | Jeremiah Zagar |
| 30 | Zootopia 2 '2025 | Animation / Comedy / Mystery | 7.3 | 92% | 73 | 7.7 | Jared Bush |
| 31 | The Menu '2022 | Comedy / Horror | 7.1 | 88% | 71 | 7.2 | Mark Mylod |
| 32 | Free Guy '2021 | Comedy / Sci-Fi | 7.1 | 80% | 62 | 7.4 | Shawn Levy |
| 33 | Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves '2023 | Fantasy / Comedy | 7.2 | - | 72 | 7.4 | Jonathan Goldstein |
| 34 | Toy Story 5 '2026 | Animation / Comedy | 7.4 | 92% | 73 | 8.3 | Andrew Stanton |
| 35 | Triangle of Sadness '2022 | Comedy / Drama | 7.2 | 72% | 63 | 7.0 | Ruben Östlund |
| 36 | No Other Choice '2025 | Comedy / Crime / Thriller | 7.5 | 97% | 86 | 7.5 | Park Chan-wook |
| 37 | Rental Family '2025 | Comedy / Drama | 7.5 | 87% | 64 | 7.7 | Hikari |
| 38 | Sing 2 '2021 | Animation / Comedy / Musical | 7.3 | 72% | 49 | 7.8 | Garth Jennings |
| 39 | The Drama '2026 | Romance / Comedy / Drama | 7.1 | 76% | 59 | 6.9 | Kristoffer Borgli |
| 40 | The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar '2023 | Fantasy / Comedy | 7.4 | 95% | 85 | 7.3 | Wes Anderson |
| 41 | Hoppers '2026 | Animation / Comedy / Sci-Fi | 7.2 | 94% | 73 | 8.1 | Daniel Chong |
| 42 | Babylon '2022 | Drama / Comedy | 7.1 | 57% | 61 | 7.3 | Damien Chazelle |
| 43 | Voicemails for Isabelle '2026 | Romance / Comedy / Drama | 7.3 | 88% | 62 | 8.3 | Leah McKendrick |
| 44 | The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun '2021 | Drama / Comedy | 7.1 | 75% | 75 | 7.0 | Wes Anderson |
| 45 | Licorice Pizza '2021 | Drama / Comedy / Romance | 7.1 | 90% | 90 | 6.9 | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 46 | The Super Mario Bros. Movie '2023 | Comedy / Fantasy / Animation | 7.0 | 58% | 46 | 7.6 | Michael Jelenic |
| 47 | Saltburn '2023 | Drama / Comedy / Thriller | 7.0 | 72% | 61 | 6.9 | Emerald Fennell |
| 48 | Ghostbusters: Afterlife '2021 | Fantasy / Comedy | 7.0 | 63% | 45 | 7.3 | Jason Reitman |
| 49 | The King of Staten Island '2020 | Comedy / Drama | 7.1 | 76% | 67 | 7.0 | Judd Apatow |
| 50 | BlackBerry '2023 | Comedy / Drama | 7.3 | 97% | 78 | 7.2 | Matt Johnson |
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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Directors on this list
Guy Ritchie Alexander Payne Yorgos Lanthimos Paul Thomas Anderson Shawn Levy Martin McDonagh Marc Forster David Leitch Craig Gillespie Rian Johnson James Gunn Adam McKay
Actors on this list
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