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The Best Films of the 2020s Decade (so far)
The greatest films of the 2020s so far, from the growth of auteur television to boundary-pushing metamodernism.
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The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025)
Confined to an emergency call centre, The Voice of Hind Rajab narrows in on the conversations between dispatch personnel and a young girl trapped in the Israeli assault on Gaza, using authentic audio recordings to anchor its dramatisation within a procedural, visceral reality.
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Wuthering Heights (2026)
Emerald Fennell was never going to convince those who reverently cling to Emily Brontë’s novel of its provocative potential, yet in her ravishingly grotesque vision of passion and obsession, Wuthering Heights lays bare two convulsive hearts responsible for their own primal, fevered torture.
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KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
The kinetic choreography which fuses dance and combat in KPop Demon Hunters certainly impresses, yet music transcends spectacle in this vibrant, neon-soaked world of idols turned warriors, liberating performers and fans alike from those inner voices that gnaw at self-worth.
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The Secret Agent (2025)
Kleber Mendonça Filho sets a vast stage for the tense political drama of The Secret Agent, tracing one dissident’s attempts to outmanoeuvre Brazil’s military dictatorship in the 1970s, and studying historic expressions of grief and resistance distorted by its cruel, bureaucratic censorship.
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Resurrection (2025)
Bi Gan’s metamodern autopsy of cinema may be elusive in its dreamlike passage through time, yet in becoming one of the medium’s most transcendent accomplishments in recent years, Resurrection enacts the intersection of art and reality as a transient, bittersweet exchange.
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Marty Supreme (2025)
Table tennis superstar Marty Mauser is unlikeable a sports movie antihero as they come, and through Josh Safdie’s abrasive illustration of a self-serving quest for glory, Marty Supreme propels his morally dubious ventures forward on waves of frantic, pulsating momentum.