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Best Mystery Movies of the 2020s, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
93 mystery films from the 2020s are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is The Batman (2022), at 7.8 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 6.9. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Where the Crawdads Sing, 7.2 on IMDb against 43 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Batman '2022 | Crime / Mystery / Thriller | 7.8 | 85% | 72 | 7.7 | Matt Reeves |
| 2 | Anatomy of a Fall '2023 | Thriller / Mystery / Crime | 7.6 | 96% | 86 | 7.5 | Justine Triet |
| 3 | Weapons '2025 | Horror / Mystery | 7.4 | 93% | 81 | 7.3 | Zach Cregger |
| 4 | Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery '2025 | Thriller / Mystery / Comedy | 7.3 | - | 80 | 7.2 | Rian Johnson |
| 5 | The Sheep Detectives '2026 | Comedy / Mystery | 7.4 | 95% | 72 | 7.9 | Kyle Balda |
| 6 | Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery '2022 | Comedy / Crime / Mystery | 7.1 | 91% | 81 | 7.0 | Rian Johnson |
| 7 | Zootopia 2 '2025 | Animation / Comedy / Mystery | 7.3 | 92% | 73 | 7.7 | Jared Bush |
| 8 | Remarkably Bright Creatures '2026 | Drama / Mystery | 7.6 | 85% | 55 | 8.4 | Olivia Newman |
| 9 | Where the Crawdads Sing '2022 | Drama / Mystery / Romance | 7.2 | 34% | 43 | 7.5 | Olivia Newman |
| 10 | Monster '2023 | Mystery / Thriller / Drama | 7.8 | 97% | 79 | 7.9 | Hirokazu Kore-eda |
| 11 | Barbarian '2022 | Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 7.0 | 92% | 78 | 6.9 | Zach Cregger |
| 12 | Last Night in Soho '2021 | Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 7.0 | 75% | 65 | 7.3 | Edgar Wright |
| 13 | The Outfit '2022 | Crime / Drama / Thriller / Mystery | 7.2 | 86% | 69 | 7.1 | Graham Moore |
| 14 | Decision to Leave '2022 | Thriller / Mystery / Romance | 7.2 | 94% | 85 | 7.3 | Park Chan-wook |
| 15 | The Call '2020 | Thriller / Mystery / Sci-Fi | 7.1 | 46% | - | 7.5 | Lee Chung-hyun |
| 16 | Missing '2023 | Drama / Mystery / Thriller | 7.1 | 88% | 66 | 7.4 | Nicholas D. Johnson |
| 17 | The White Tiger '2021 | Drama / Crime / Mystery | 7.1 | 91% | 76 | 7.0 | Ramin Bahrani |
| 18 | Pig '2021 | Drama / Thriller / Mystery | 6.9 | 96% | 82 | 6.6 | Michael Sarnoski |
| 19 | Backrooms '2026 | Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi | 6.7 | 86% | 76 | 7.0 | Kane Parsons |
| 20 | Enola Holmes '2020 | Mystery / Crime | 6.7 | 91% | 68 | 7.2 | Harry Bradbeer |
| 21 | Enola Holmes 2 '2022 | Mystery / Crime | 6.8 | 93% | 64 | 7.4 | Harry Bradbeer |
| 22 | The Housemaid '2025 | Mystery / Thriller | 6.7 | 74% | 65 | 7.3 | Paul Feig |
| 23 | Reptile '2023 | Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Drama | 6.8 | 45% | 52 | 6.7 | Grant Singer |
| 24 | Final Destination Bloodlines '2025 | Horror / Mystery | 6.7 | 92% | 73 | 7.0 | Adam Stein |
| 25 | Black Bag '2025 | Mystery / Thriller | 6.7 | 96% | 85 | 6.4 | Steven Soderbergh |
| 26 | The Good Nurse '2022 | Drama / Crime / Mystery | 6.8 | 74% | 65 | 6.9 | Tobias Lindholm |
| 27 | Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers '2022 | Animation / Comedy / Mystery | 6.9 | - | 66 | 7.0 | Akiva Schaffer |
| 28 | The Accountant² '2025 | Mystery / Crime / Thriller | 6.6 | 74% | 58 | 7.1 | Gavin O'Connor |
| 29 | Smile 2 '2024 | Horror / Mystery | 6.7 | 86% | 67 | 6.6 | Parker Finn |
| 30 | Black Box '2021 | Mystery / Thriller / Drama | 7.2 | 72% | - | 7.3 | Yann Gozlan |
| 31 | Fear Street: 1978 '2021 | Horror / Mystery / Drama | 6.7 | 88% | 61 | 7.2 | Leigh Janiak |
| 32 | The End of Oak Street '2026 | Sci-Fi / Mystery / Thriller | 6.5 | 86% | 69 | 7.1 | David Robert Mitchell |
| 33 | Saw X '2023 | Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 6.6 | 81% | 60 | 7.1 | Kevin Greutert |
| 34 | The Pale Blue Eye '2022 | Thriller / Crime / Horror / Mystery | 6.6 | 62% | 56 | 6.8 | Scott Cooper |
| 35 | The Thursday Murder Club '2025 | Comedy / Mystery / Crime | 6.5 | 77% | 60 | 6.6 | Chris Columbus |
| 36 | Saint Maud '2020 | Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 6.6 | 92% | 83 | 6.5 | Rose Glass |
| 37 | The Wrecking Crew '2026 | Action / Comedy / Crime / Mystery | 6.4 | 74% | 67 | 7.1 | Ángel Manuel Soto |
| 38 | Oddity '2024 | Horror / Mystery | 6.7 | 96% | 78 | 6.7 | Damian McCarthy |
| 39 | Fear Street: 1666 '2021 | Mystery / Horror | 6.6 | 89% | 68 | 7.1 | Leigh Janiak |
| 40 | A Haunting in Venice '2023 | Mystery / Thriller / Crime | 6.5 | 75% | 63 | 6.6 | Kenneth Branagh |
| 41 | The Wonder '2022 | Drama / Mystery | 6.6 | 84% | 71 | 6.6 | Sebastián Lelio |
| 42 | Smile '2022 | Horror / Mystery | 6.5 | 79% | 68 | 6.7 | Parker Finn |
| 43 | I'm Thinking of Ending Things '2020 | Mystery / Thriller / Drama | 6.5 | 82% | 78 | 6.5 | Charlie Kaufman |
| 44 | Longlegs '2024 | Crime / Horror / Mystery | 6.5 | 85% | 77 | 6.5 | Osgood Perkins |
| 45 | See How They Run '2022 | Mystery / Comedy / Crime | 6.5 | 75% | 60 | 6.3 | Tom George |
| 46 | Luther: The Fallen Sun '2023 | Crime / Mystery / Thriller | 6.4 | 68% | 53 | 6.6 | Jamie Payne |
| 47 | Blink Twice '2024 | Mystery / Thriller / Horror | 6.5 | 74% | 66 | 6.7 | Zoë Kravitz |
| 48 | Leave the World Behind '2023 | Drama / Mystery / Thriller | 6.4 | 73% | 68 | 6.4 | Sam Esmail |
| 49 | Luckiest Girl Alive '2022 | Drama / Thriller / Mystery | 6.4 | 42% | 54 | 6.5 | Mike Barker |
| 50 | The Night House '2021 | Horror / Mystery | 6.4 | 81% | 68 | 6.5 | David Bruckner |
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
Matt Reeves Rian Johnson Edgar Wright Park Chan-wook Paul Feig Steven Soderbergh Gavin O'Connor Chris Columbus Kenneth Branagh
Actors on this list
Robert Pattinson Josh Brolin Daniel Craig Hugh Jackman Edward Norton Jason Bateman Sally Field Justin Long Anya Taylor-Joy Nicolas Cage Chiwetel Ejiofor Henry Cavill