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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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It Was Just an Accident (2025)
Jafar Panahi channels his fury at Iran’s oppressive regime into the complex moral dilemma of It Was Just an Accident, propelling a party of former political prisoners on a quest to identify a man they believe to be their torturer, and uneasily distilling the gnawing, unrelenting anxiety of their tortured survival.
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No Other Choice (2025)
Never has Park Chan-wook wielded his fatalistic irony with such a darkly comedic edge as he does in No Other Choice, sending one unemployed paper specialist on a murderous trail against rival job candidates, and sharply exposing the bureaucratic nihilism of modern capitalism.
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Wake Up Dead Man (2025)
The cerebral pleasures of Wake Up Dead Man’s painstakingly plotted mystery may captivate the mind, yet Rian Johnson’s careful attention to the spiritual stakes within a guilty church congregation resonates with haunting ambiguity, unravelling the impossible, locked-room murder of a vindictive priest.
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Wicked: For Good (2025)
Although the uneven pacing of Wicked: For Good blunts its dramatic urgency, Jon M. Chu delivers a finale steeped in fantastical, kaleidoscopic ambition, subverting cinematic canon with lavish worldbuilding, impossible designs, and freshly layered characterisations.
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The Running Man (2025)
Uneven pacing and plotting aside, The Running Man imperfectly thrives in Edgar Wright’s stylish, sardonic thrills, charting a fugitive’s desperate odyssey through a dystopian America where survival is broadcast for mass entertainment.
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Bugonia (2025)
When a pair of conspiracy theorists kidnap a CEO they believe is an alien, neither zealots nor capitalists can escape the misanthropic aspersions of Lanthimos’ cosmic joke, as Bugonia spirals into an absurdist satire of power, paranoia, and humanity’s self-inflicted ruin.