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Best Fantasy Movies of the 2020s, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
127 fantasy films from the 2020s are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender (2026), at - on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.4. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Zack Snyder's Justice League, 7.9 on IMDb against 54 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender '2026 | Animation / Fantasy / Action | - | 90% | - | 9.0 | Lauren Montgomery |
| 2 | The Odyssey '2026 | Action / Fantasy | 8.4 | 94% | 88 | 8.0 | Christopher Nolan |
| 3 | Soul '2020 | Animation / Drama / Musical / Fantasy | 8.0 | 95% | 83 | 8.1 | Pete Docter |
| 4 | Zack Snyder's Justice League '2021 | Action / Fantasy | 7.9 | 71% | 54 | 8.1 | Zack Snyder |
| 5 | Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train '2020 | Animation / Action / Fantasy | 8.2 | - | 72 | 8.2 | Haruo Sotozaki |
| 6 | Puss in Boots: The Last Wish '2022 | Animation / Fantasy / Comedy | 7.9 | - | 73 | 8.2 | Joel Crawford |
| 7 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle '2025 | Animation / Action / Fantasy | 8.3 | 98% | 67 | 8.8 | Haruo Sotozaki |
| 8 | Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc '2025 | Animation / Action / Romance / Fantasy | 8.3 | 96% | 71 | 8.5 | Tatsuya Yoshihara |
| 9 | Flow '2024 | Animation / Fantasy | 7.8 | 97% | 87 | 8.1 | Gints Zilbalodis |
| 10 | How to Train Your Dragon '2025 | Fantasy / Action | 7.7 | 78% | 61 | 7.9 | Dean DeBlois |
| 11 | Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio '2022 | Animation / Fantasy | 7.6 | 27% | 79 | 8.0 | Mark Gustafson |
| 12 | Frankenstein '2025 | Drama / Fantasy / Horror | 7.4 | 85% | 78 | 7.6 | Guillermo del Toro |
| 13 | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings '2021 | Action / Fantasy | 7.3 | 92% | 71 | 7.5 | Destin Daniel Cretton |
| 14 | Luca '2021 | Animation / Fantasy / Drama / Comedy | 7.4 | 91% | 71 | 7.8 | Enrico Casarosa |
| 15 | Wolfwalkers '2020 | Animation / Fantasy | 8.0 | 99% | 87 | 8.2 | Tomm Moore |
| 16 | Onward '2020 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 7.3 | 88% | 61 | 7.6 | Dan Scanlon |
| 17 | Wicked '2024 | Drama / Romance / Fantasy | 7.3 | 88% | 73 | 6.9 | Jon M. Chu |
| 18 | KPop Demon Hunters '2025 | Fantasy / Musical / Comedy / Animation | 7.4 | 92% | 77 | 8.0 | Chris Appelhans |
| 19 | Jujutsu Kaisen 0 '2021 | Animation / Action / Fantasy | 7.8 | 96% | 71 | 8.1 | Sunghoo Park |
| 20 | Raya and the Last Dragon '2021 | Animation / Action / Fantasy | 7.3 | 93% | 74 | 7.8 | Don Hall |
| 21 | Encanto '2021 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 7.2 | - | 75 | 7.6 | Byron Howard |
| 22 | Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves '2023 | Fantasy / Comedy | 7.2 | - | 72 | 7.4 | Jonathan Goldstein |
| 23 | Avatar: Fire and Ash '2025 | Sci-Fi / Fantasy | 7.2 | 66% | 61 | 7.6 | James Cameron |
| 24 | All of Us Strangers '2023 | Romance / Drama / Fantasy | 7.6 | 96% | 90 | 7.4 | Andrew Haigh |
| 25 | The Boy and the Heron '2023 | Animation / Fantasy / Drama | 7.3 | 96% | 91 | 7.4 | Hayao Miyazaki |
| 26 | Suzume '2022 | Animation / Drama / Fantasy | 7.6 | - | 77 | 7.9 | Makoto Shinkai |
| 27 | The Little Mermaid '2023 | Fantasy / Romance | 7.2 | 67% | 59 | 6.3 | Rob Marshall |
| 28 | Nosferatu '2024 | Horror / Fantasy | 7.1 | 85% | 78 | 6.7 | Robert Eggers |
| 29 | The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar '2023 | Fantasy / Comedy | 7.4 | 95% | 85 | 7.3 | Wes Anderson |
| 30 | The Life of Chuck '2025 | Drama / Fantasy | 7.3 | 80% | 67 | 7.3 | Mike Flanagan |
| 31 | The Northman '2022 | Action / Fantasy | 7.0 | 90% | 82 | 7.0 | Robert Eggers |
| 32 | The Super Mario Bros. Movie '2023 | Comedy / Fantasy / Animation | 7.0 | 58% | 46 | 7.6 | Michael Jelenic |
| 33 | Nimona '2023 | Animation / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Action | 7.5 | 92% | 75 | 7.9 | Nick Bruno |
| 34 | Ghostbusters: Afterlife '2021 | Fantasy / Comedy | 7.0 | 63% | 45 | 7.3 | Jason Reitman |
| 35 | Love and Monsters '2020 | Comedy / Fantasy | 6.9 | 94% | 63 | 7.3 | Michael Matthews |
| 36 | Barbie '2023 | Comedy / Fantasy | 6.8 | 88% | 80 | 6.9 | Greta Gerwig |
| 37 | Werewolf by Night '2022 | Action / Fantasy / Horror | 7.1 | 90% | - | 7.0 | Michael Giacchino |
| 38 | Wonka '2023 | Comedy / Fantasy | 6.9 | 82% | 66 | 7.0 | Paul King |
| 39 | Justice League Dark: Apokolips War '2020 | Animation / Action / Fantasy | 7.8 | 100% | - | 8.2 | Matt Peters |
| 40 | Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness '2022 | Fantasy / Action | 6.8 | 73% | 60 | 7.2 | Sam Raimi |
| 41 | Turning Red '2022 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 6.9 | 95% | 83 | 7.3 | Domee Shi |
| 42 | The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf '2021 | Animation / Action / Fantasy | 7.2 | 100% | 67 | 7.4 | Han Kwang Il |
| 43 | Swapped '2026 | Animation / Fantasy | 7.2 | 69% | 56 | 8.8 | Nathan Greno |
| 44 | Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge '2020 | Animation / Action / Fantasy | 7.4 | 90% | - | 8.1 | Ethan Spaulding |
| 45 | The Croods: A New Age '2020 | Animation / Fantasy / Comedy | 6.9 | 76% | 56 | 7.4 | Joel Crawford |
| 46 | The Sea Beast '2022 | Animation / Action / Fantasy | 7.0 | 94% | 74 | 7.3 | Chris Williams |
| 47 | Wish Dragon '2021 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy / Romance | 7.2 | 71% | 59 | 7.8 | Chris Appelhans |
| 48 | The Old Guard '2020 | Action / Fantasy | 6.7 | 80% | 70 | 7.1 | Gina Prince-Bythewood |
| 49 | Dream Scenario '2023 | Comedy / Fantasy | 6.8 | 91% | 74 | 6.6 | Kristoffer Borgli |
| 50 | Violent Night '2022 | Action / Comedy / Fantasy | 6.7 | 74% | 55 | 7.2 | Tommy Wirkola |
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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