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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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La Bola Negra (2026)
As La Bola Negra resurrects the ghosts of a lost manuscript, Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi entwine three tales of queer survival across Spain’s turbulent past and present, sensitively forging an epic, intergenerational triptych of erasure and remembrance.
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Digger (2026)
The world may be doomed through the reckless actions of a single billionaire in Digger, yet Alejandro G. Iñárritu keeps a satirical, Brechtian distance from the apocalyptic reality at hand, irreverently wrapping the catastrophe in immaculate artifice and layers of irony that implicate us all.
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Resident Evil (2026)
It takes a horror craftsman unburdened by convention to recognise Resident Evil’s appeal beyond the game controller, and in the lean construction of Zach Cregger’s adaptation, the barest essentials of survival are enough to sustain such a gruelling, propulsive narrative.
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Obsession (2025)
Love stripped of consent warps into a demonic force in Obsession, and through one man’s reckless wish for absolute devotion, Curry Barker exposes the insidious, consuming violence of its coercive fulfilment.
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Lee Cronin’s The Mummy (2026)
That Lee Cronin’s The Mummy should include its creator’s name is an audacious move for an emerging director, yet in staging a young girl’s demonic possession against her parents’ anguish, Cronin’s deterioration of the family unit begins to justify the claim of auteurship.
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The Invite (2026)
A simple dinner party serves as the canvas for Olivia Wilde’s viciously funny chamber piece in The Invite, mining the bitter verbal sparring between two mismatched couples, and gleefully tipping the evening into gloriously calculated dysfunction.