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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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Ballerina (2025)
Through one young assassin’s pursuit of vengeance against a cult, Len Wiseman offers a worthy addition to the John Wick franchise in Ballerina, reframing its world of contractual violence as a system to be navigated rather than escaped.
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Die My Love (2025)
As one young woman falls into the resentful, fugue-like state of motherhood in Die My Love, Lynne Ramsay frays the boundaries of selfhood and domestic routine, casting her portrait of postpartum unravelling in pale greens and fragmented rhythms.
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Magellan (2025)
Through Lav Diaz’s rigorously composed tableaux stretching from Portugal to Indonesia, Magellan deconstructs the mythology of its infamous explorer, applying an austere, postcolonial lens to the hubris which underlies such violent acts of conquest.
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Sirāt (2025)
Dragging us through dust, heat, and excruciating tension of the Moroccan desert, Sirāt navigates one man’s attempts to find his daughter within its hallucinatory rave culture, relentlessly pushing him ever closer to the brink of his own physical and psychological limits.
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Ballad of a Small Player (2025)
Hell is a condition of being for souls lost to compulsion in Ballad of a Small Player, and one that Edward Berger blurs into a gilded convergence of superstition, lighting up the global gambling capital as a dazzling, ghostly underworld of endless consumption.
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The Drama (2026)
Kristoffer Borgli hinges The Drama upon a twisted secret, luring audiences into one of the funniest, messiest, and darkest romantic comedies of recent years, as he dismantles a couple’s mutual trust in the week leading up to their wedding.