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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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Frankenstein (2025)
Through operatic mythologising and cinematic splendour, Guillermo del Toro magnificently elevates Frankenstein into a rueful, elegiac meditation on kinship, condemning both father and son to the same corrosive cycles of paternal cruelty, maternal absence, and a hunger for love that no creation can satisfy.
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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.