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Best Crime Movies of the 2020s, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
113 crime films from the 2020s are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is The Punisher: One Last Kill (2026), at - on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.0. Biggest split between audiences and critics: The Unforgivable, 7.2 on IMDb against 41 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Punisher: One Last Kill '2026 | Action / Drama / Crime | - | 73% | - | 8.3 | Reinaldo Marcus Green |
| 2 | The Batman '2022 | Crime / Mystery / Thriller | 7.8 | 85% | 72 | 7.7 | Matt Reeves |
| 3 | The Gentlemen '2020 | Comedy / Crime | 7.8 | 75% | 51 | 7.7 | Guy Ritchie |
| 4 | One Battle After Another '2025 | Thriller / Crime / Comedy | 7.6 | 94% | 95 | 7.3 | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 5 | John Wick: Chapter 4 '2023 | Action / Thriller / Crime | 7.6 | 94% | 78 | 7.7 | Chad Stahelski |
| 6 | Promising Young Woman '2020 | Thriller / Crime / Drama | 7.5 | 90% | 72 | 7.4 | Emerald Fennell |
| 7 | The Whisper Man '2026 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | - | 46% | - | 6.8 | James Ashcroft |
| 8 | Anatomy of a Fall '2023 | Thriller / Mystery / Crime | 7.6 | 96% | 86 | 7.5 | Justine Triet |
| 9 | Killers of the Flower Moon '2023 | Crime / Drama | 7.5 | 93% | 89 | 7.4 | Martin Scorsese |
| 10 | Cruella '2021 | Comedy / Crime | 7.3 | 75% | 59 | 8.0 | Craig Gillespie |
| 11 | Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery '2022 | Comedy / Crime / Mystery | 7.1 | 91% | 81 | 7.0 | Rian Johnson |
| 12 | No Other Choice '2025 | Comedy / Crime / Thriller | 7.5 | 97% | 86 | 7.5 | Park Chan-wook |
| 13 | The Devil All the Time '2020 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.1 | 65% | 55 | 7.2 | Antonio Campos |
| 14 | Wrath of Man '2021 | Thriller / Crime / Drama | 7.1 | 68% | 57 | 7.6 | Guy Ritchie |
| 15 | The Unforgivable '2021 | Drama / Crime | 7.2 | 40% | 41 | 7.4 | Nora Fingscheidt |
| 16 | West Side Story '2021 | Drama / Romance / Crime | 7.1 | 91% | 85 | 6.9 | Steven Spielberg |
| 17 | Nightmare Alley '2021 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.0 | 80% | 70 | 6.9 | Guillermo del Toro |
| 18 | The Outfit '2022 | Crime / Drama / Thriller / Mystery | 7.2 | 86% | 69 | 7.1 | Graham Moore |
| 19 | The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent '2022 | Action / Comedy / Crime | 7.0 | 87% | 68 | 6.8 | Tom Gormican |
| 20 | Extraction 2 '2023 | Action / Thriller / Crime | 7.0 | 79% | 57 | 7.4 | Sam Hargrave |
| 21 | The Tinder Swindler '2022 | Documentary / Crime | 7.1 | 97% | - | 7.0 | Felicity Morris |
| 22 | The White Tiger '2021 | Drama / Crime / Mystery | 7.1 | 91% | 76 | 7.0 | Ramin Bahrani |
| 23 | Roofman '2025 | Crime / Comedy / Drama | 6.9 | 87% | 66 | 7.1 | Derek Cianfrance |
| 24 | Ballerina '2025 | Action / Thriller / Crime | 6.8 | - | 59 | 7.3 | Len Wiseman |
| 25 | Crime 101 '2026 | Crime / Thriller | 6.8 | 88% | 68 | 7.0 | Bart Layton |
| 26 | The Equalizer 3 '2023 | Action / Thriller / Crime | 6.8 | 76% | 58 | 7.3 | Antoine Fuqua |
| 27 | Caught Stealing '2025 | Crime / Thriller / Comedy | 6.8 | 85% | 65 | 6.8 | Darren Aronofsky |
| 28 | The Rip '2026 | Action / Thriller / Crime | 6.7 | 77% | 63 | 7.1 | Joe Carnahan |
| 29 | The Bad Guys '2022 | Action / Animation / Comedy / Crime | 6.9 | 87% | 64 | 7.5 | Pierre Perifel |
| 30 | Enola Holmes '2020 | Mystery / Crime | 6.7 | 91% | 68 | 7.2 | Harry Bradbeer |
| 31 | Enola Holmes 2 '2022 | Mystery / Crime | 6.8 | 93% | 64 | 7.4 | Harry Bradbeer |
| 32 | Reptile '2023 | Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Drama | 6.8 | 45% | 52 | 6.7 | Grant Singer |
| 33 | Strange Darling '2024 | Crime / Thriller / Horror | 7.0 | 96% | 80 | 6.9 | JT Mollner |
| 34 | The Killer '2023 | Crime / Thriller | 6.7 | 85% | 73 | 6.6 | David Fincher |
| 35 | Hit Man '2024 | Comedy / Romance / Crime | 6.8 | 95% | 82 | 6.8 | Richard Linklater |
| 36 | The Good Nurse '2022 | Drama / Crime / Mystery | 6.8 | 74% | 65 | 6.9 | Tobias Lindholm |
| 37 | The Shadow's Edge '2025 | Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.0 | 82% | - | 8.3 | Larry Yang |
| 38 | Rebel Ridge '2024 | Crime / Action / Thriller / Drama | 6.8 | 95% | 76 | 7.0 | Jeremy Saulnier |
| 39 | Monkey Man '2024 | Thriller / Crime / Action | 6.8 | 89% | 70 | 6.9 | Dev Patel |
| 40 | Facing El Chapo '2026 | Crime / Action / Thriller | 6.7 | - | - | 8.8 | Chava Cartas |
| 41 | The Accountant² '2025 | Mystery / Crime / Thriller | 6.6 | 74% | 58 | 7.1 | Gavin O'Connor |
| 42 | Eddington '2025 | Western / Comedy / Crime | 6.6 | 69% | 65 | 6.5 | Ari Aster |
| 43 | The Order '2024 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 6.8 | 93% | 75 | 6.6 | Justin Kurzel |
| 44 | Emily the Criminal '2022 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 6.7 | 93% | 75 | 6.6 | John Patton Ford |
| 45 | Dogman '2023 | Action / Drama / Crime | 6.8 | 58% | 45 | 7.8 | Luc Besson |
| 46 | Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man '2026 | Crime / Drama | 6.5 | 90% | 59 | 7.2 | Tom Harper |
| 47 | The Pale Blue Eye '2022 | Thriller / Crime / Horror / Mystery | 6.6 | 62% | 56 | 6.8 | Scott Cooper |
| 48 | STRAW '2025 | Thriller / Drama / Crime | 6.5 | 53% | 56 | 7.7 | Tyler Perry |
| 49 | To Catch a Killer '2023 | Thriller / Crime / Drama | 6.6 | 53% | 43 | 6.8 | Damián Szifron |
| 50 | The Thursday Murder Club '2025 | Comedy / Mystery / Crime | 6.5 | 77% | 60 | 6.6 | Chris Columbus |
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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