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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 Wild Robot (2024)
By turning a shipwrecked service android into the world’s most unlikely mother, The Wild Robot considers parenthood as a conflict of instinct and adaptation in its delicately animated eco-fable, revealing the communal self-growth that such a journey of profound responsibility can nurture.
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Flow (2024)
The journey that one nameless black cat and its assorted companions set out on through flood waters makes for a minimalist narrative in Flow, yet within Gints Zilbalodis’ immersive, fluid animation, the organic cycles of this ever-changing ecosystem fall into soothing harmony.
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Nickel Boys (2024)
RaMell Ross’ avant-garde instincts come fully formed in the first-person camerawork and impressionistic montages of Nickel Boys, explicitly adopting the perspectives of two friends living in a 1960s reform school, and internalising a shared resilience that leads communities into the fight for civil rights.
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Mickey 17 (2025)
True to Bong Joon-ho’s savage class critiques, the endless cloning of expendable workers in Mickey 17 examines the fragility of identity in a capitalist system, aiming its broad satire at the repackaging of exploitation and colonisation as economic progress.
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A Real Pain (2024)
As two amusingly dissimilar cousins reconnect to their Jewish ancestry in Poland, A Real Pain also sensitively examines their reconnection with each other, binding polar opposites together through humour, compassion, and generations of unresolved trauma.
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I’m Still Here (2024)
When Brazil’s plague of forced disappearances reaches a beloved father in I’m Still Here, it is up to his resilient wife to keep the shattered pieces of her family’s lives together, transforming her sorrow and trauma into a testament of selfless, compassionate resistance.