| 1. Resurrection | Bi Gan | 2025 |
| 2. Magellan | Lav Diaz | 2025 |
| 3. Oppenheimer | Christopher Nolan | 2023 |
| 4. Poor Things | Yorgos Lanthimos | 2023 |
| 5. Ripley | Steven Zaillian | 2024 |
| 6. The French Dispatch | Wes Anderson | 2021 |
| 7. Tár | Todd Field | 2022 |
| 8. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse | Joaquim Dos, Santos Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson | 2023 |
| 9. I’m Thinking of Ending Things | Charlie Kaufman | 2020 |
| 10. Dune: Part Two | Denis Villeneuve | 2024 |
| 11. Decision to Leave | Park Chan-wook | 2022 |
| 12. Asteroid City | Wes Anderson | 2023 |
| 13. The Tragedy of Macbeth | Joel Coen | 2021 |
| 14. The Zone of Interest | Jonathan Glazer | 2023 |
| 15. John Wick: Chapter 4 | Chad Stahelski | 2023 |
| 16. The Green Knight | David Lowery | 2021 |
| 17. Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths | Alejandro Iñárritu | 2022 |
| 18. Dune | Denis Villeneuve | 2021 |
| 19. The Substance | Coralie Fargeat | 2024 |
| 20. Nosferatu | Robert Eggers | 2024 |
| 21. The Phoenician Scheme | Wes Anderson | 2025 |
| 22. Everything Everywhere All at Once | The Daniels | 2022 |
| 23. Train Dreams | Clint Bentley | 2025 |
| 24. Frankenstein | Guillermo del Toro | 2025 |
| 25. No Other Choice | Park Chan-wook | 2025 |
| 26. Nomadland | Chloé Zhao | 2020 |
| 27. The Underground Railroad | Barry Jenkins | 2021 |
| 28. Nickel Boys | RaMell Ross | 2024 |
| 29. The Batman | Matt Reeves | 2022 |
| 30. The Girl with the Needle | Magnus von Horn | 2024 |
| 31. The Northman | Robert Eggers | 2022 |
| 32. The Card Counter | Paul Schrader | 2021 |
| 33. The Brutalist | Brady Corbet | 2024 |
| 34. Babylon | Damien Chazelle | 2022 |
| 35. Sinners | Ryan Coogler | 2025 |
| 36. Ballad of a Small Player | Edward Berger | 2025 |
| 37. Mank | David Fincher | 2020 |
| 38. Spencer | Pablo Larraín | 2021 |
| 39. Bugonia | Yorgos Lanthimos | 2025 |
| 40. Killers of the Flower Moon | Martin Scorsese | 2023 |
| 41. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga | George Miller | 2024 |
| 42. The Killer | David Fincher | 2023 |
| 43. Nightmare Alley | Guillermo del Toro | 2021 |
| 44. Wuthering Heights | Emerald Fennell | 2026 |
| 45. Beau is Afraid | Ari Aster | 2023 |
| 46. Avatar: The Way of Water | James Cameron | 2022 |
| 47. Small Axe | Steve McQueen | 2020 |
| 48. Hamnet | Chloé Zhao | 2025 |
| 49. Maria | Pablo Larraín | 2024 |
| 50. Promising Young Woman | Emerald Fennell | 2020 |
| 51. Marty Supreme | Josh Safdie | 2025 |
| 52. Copenhagen Cowboy | Nicolas Winding Refn | 2022 |
| 53. Queer | Luca Guadagnino | 2024 |
| 54. Saltburn | Emerald Fennell | 2023 |
| 55. Blonde | Andrew Dominik | 2022 |
| 56. C’mon C’mon | Mike Mills | 2021 |
| 57. Orphan | László Nemes | 2025 |
| 58. El Conde | Pablo Larraín | 2023 |
| 59. Pieces of a Woman | Kornél Mundruczó | 2020 |
| 60. Jay Kelly | Noah Baumbach | 2025 |
| 61. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More | Wes Anderson | 2023 |
| 62. Monkey Man | Dev Patel | 2024 |
| 63. One Battle After Another | Paul Thomas Anderson | 2025 |
| 64. Disclaimer | Alfonso Cuarón | 2024 |
| 65. The Hand of God | Paolo Sorrentino | 2021 |
| 66. Kinds of Kindness | Yorgos Lanthimos | 2024 |
| 67. West Side Story | Steven Spielberg | 2021 |
| 68. Tenet | Christopher Nolan | 2020 |
| 69. Flow | Gints Zilbalodis | 2024 |
| 70. Avatar: Fire and Ash | James Cameron | 2025 |
| 71. Weapons | Zach Cregger | 2025 |
| 72. Hundreds of Beavers | Mike Cheslik | 2022 |
| 73. Die My Love | Lynne Ramsay | 2025 |
| 74. 28 Years Later | Danny Boyle | 2025 |
| 75. The Power of the Dog | Jane Campion | 2021 |
| 76. Civil War | Alex Garland | 2024 |
| 77. The Banshees of Inisherin | Martin McDonagh | 2022 |
| 78. Conclave | Edward Berger | 2024 |
| 79. A Hero | Asghar Farhadi | 2021 |
| 80. Belfast | Kenneth Branagh | 2021 |
| 81. All Quiet on the Western Front | Edward Berger | 2022 |
| 82. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners | Hiroyuki Imaishi | 2022 |
| 83. Passing | Rebecca Hall | 2021 |
| 84. After Yang | Kogonada | 2021 |
| 85. Fallen Leaves | Aki Kaurismäki | 2023 |
| 86. The Secret Agent | Kleber Mendonça Filho | 2025 |
| 87. Possessor | Brandon Cronenberg | 2020 |
| 88. Challengers | Luca Guadagnino | 2024 |
| 89. Mother Mary | David Lowery | 2026 |
| 90. May December | Todd Haynes | 2023 |
| 91. Memoria | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 2021 |
| 92. Anora | Sean Baker | 2024 |
| 93. The Father | Florian Zeller | 2020 |
| 94. Last Night in Soho | Edgar Wright | 2021 |
| 95. Adolescence | Philip Barantini | 2025 |
| 96. A Haunting in Venice | Kenneth Branagh | 2023 |
| 97. Elvis | Baz Luhrmann | 2022 |
| 98. Blitz | Steve McQueen | 2024 |
| 99. Maestro | Bradley Cooper | 2023 |
| 100. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem | Jeff Rowe, Kyler Spears | 2023 |
Hope you catch two Netflix releases of the past month; El Conde and Reptile. I think the latter will end up being quite underrated/overlooked.
Hoping to get to El Conde this week, and will definitely try to catch Reptile soon.
How come you haven’t reviewed any Hong Sang Soo movies? I think according to TSPDT, he is the director with most movies on the 21st century list.
That’s a good question, and a really fascinating statistic. Do you have any suggestions for where to start?
How is Blonde rated 27 with a HR/MS and Promising Young Woman rated at 24 with a HR?
Promising Young Woman has been updated to HR/MS.
Have you caught Conclave yet?
Not yet, it doesn’t come out here until January unfortunately. But it is one of my most highly anticipated upcoming films.
Did Across the Spider-Verse get downgraded or something cause its page has it at MS/MP yet its ranked at 30?
The opposite – it was upgraded to MS/MP, but I understand the confusion given the publish dates for these posts. I went back to update the older page at some point. This list will be updated fairly soon once I’m done with 2025 films.
Ah i see
Seeing ATSV In the top 8 has left a big smile on my face :]
Very keen for Beyond the Spider-Verse next year. I don’t mind the constant delays either – would much rather they take the time to get it right than rush it.
I agree a lot with much of this list, but I do wonder how much the test of time will change this list.
(only one i Really disagree with is Frankenstein, that movie has almost nothing new to say and i hated its mise en scène. Marty Supreme was a much more nuanced take on an egotistical “boygenius”)
There’s no doubt some of these films will shift with time. I recently updated all of my decade lists, and I’m much more confident now than I was three years ago when I first published them.
I disagree that Frankenstein has nothing new to say, especially given how much it explores the Freudian dimension of the story, though I go into that in more detail in my review. As for the mise-en-scene, that strikes me as more of a matter of personal taste than a shortcoming in del Toro’s formal craftsmanship. I understand that his style isn’t for everyone, but strong mise-en-scene works towards a psychological or aesthetic vision that is both unified and distinctive – and I think it’s difficult to deny how purposeful and meticulously designed his colour palettes, lighting, and set designs are in that sense.
Marty Supreme is definitely more restrained and realistic, but I’m not convinced that makes it the more nuanced film. I definitely wouldn’t place its visual achievement on quite the same level as Frankenstein either, but I wouldn’t argue too heavily against it since it is still a great achievement on its own.
hi, i had written something fast just to see if you would respond, and I see now that you responded that same day!! (i’m sorry im checking just now, i had an exam). Can I say I admire your dedication to this blog? it’s really impressive. I will definetely check out your review of Frankenstein now!
Thanks Francesco, I put a lot of time into the site so glad others find value in it!