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The Best Films of the 2020s (so far)
The greatest films of the 2020s so far, from the growth of auteur television to boundary-pushing metamodernism.
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Eternity (2025)
Forced to decide whether she will spend her afterlife with her first husband who died young or her long-term second husband, Joan confronts a romantic dilemma of existential proportions, as Eternity guides her through a whimsical, post-mortem plane of bureaucratic order and commodified paradises.
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Ne Zha 2 (2025)
More than simply rendering Chinese folklore as large-scale spectacle, Ne Zha 2 fully internalises the philosophical traditions underpinning that ancient, metaphysical mythology, observing transcendence emerge through self-realisation rather than moral division.
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Mother Mary (2026)
As one burnt-out popstar and her former costume designer collide over old grievances in Mother Mary, David Lowery slowly unveils the ghost which has haunted both, refusing to release either from the possessive grip of shame, resentment, and regret.
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Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (2025)
Childhood may seem like an endless kingdom of wonder in Little Amélie or the Character of Rain, fantastically shifting with the vivid imagination of its young protagonist, yet so too does the inevitable discovery of its own transience awaken a soft, bittersweet sorrow.
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Opus (2025)
If celebrity is a cult in this modern media landscape, then veteran pop star Moretti crowns himself its messiah in Opus, as Mark Anthony Green illustrates a corrosive symbiosis between stardom and media that sustains its own self-perpetuating spectacle of power.
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The Mastermind (2025)
The downfall of a narcissistic art thief in The Mastermind is not a dramatic collapse, but rather a desolate drift towards the inevitable, as Kelly Reichardt precipitates a chain of repercussions that pull him back to an unstable reality he has long sought to ignore.