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Top Films of the 2020s

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Dune 2021 Denis Villeneuve 1062
2 Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022 Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert 1093
3 Soul 2020 Pete Docter 1130
4 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023 Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson 1292
5 Top Gun: Maverick 2022 Joseph Kosinski 1339
6 Oppenheimer 2023 Christopher Nolan 1446
7 Spider-Man: No Way Home 2021 Jon Watts 1494
8 Dune: Part Two 2024 Denis Villeneuve 1629
9 Nomadland 2020 Chloé Zhao 1654
10 The Invisible Man 2020 Leigh Whannell 1687
11 The Power of the Dog 2021 Jane Campion 1758
12 Nope 2022 Jordan Peele 1789
13 The Mitchells vs. the Machines 2021 Michael Rianda 1794
14 Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) 2021 Questlove 1820
15 The Batman 2022 Matt Reeves 1885
16 Palm Springs 2020 Max Barbakow 1922
17 West Side Story 2021 Steven Spielberg 1951
18 Wolfwalkers 2020 Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart 2035
19 The Worst Person in the World 2021 Joachim Trier 2082
20 The Suicide Squad 2021 James Gunn 2093
21 Encanto 2021 Jared Bush and Byron Howard 2102
22 Hamilton 2020 Thomas Kail 2199
23 Promising Young Woman 2020 Emerald Fennell 2229
24 Drive My Car 2021 Ryûsuke Hamaguchi 2261
25 The Father 2020 Florian Zeller 2378
26 Killers of the Flower Moon 2023 Martin Scorsese 2409
27 CODA 2021 Sian Heder 2530
28 Quo Vadis, Aida? 2020 Jasmila Zbanic 2573
29 Licorice Pizza 2021 Paul Thomas Anderson 2648
30 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 2023 James Gunn 2726
31 In the Heights 2021 Jon M. Chu 2801
32 Aftersun 2022 Charlotte Wells 2810
33 Shiva Baby 2020 Emma Seligman 2815
34 Zack Snyder's Justice League 2021 Zack Snyder 2832
35 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings 2021 Destin Daniel Cretton 2834
36 The Half of It 2020 Alice Wu 2835
37 Onward 2020 Dan Scanlon 2856
38 Raya and the Last Dragon 2021 Don Hall and Carlos López Estrada 2920
39 Flee 2021 Jonas Poher Rasmussen 2921
40 Happiest Season 2020 Clea DuVall 2953
41 Past Lives 2023 Celine Song 2956
42 Avatar: The Way of Water 2022 James Cameron 2986
43 Minari 2020 Lee Isaac Chung 2989
44 Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) 2020 Cathy Yan 2997
45 Poor Things 2023 Yorgos Lanthimos 3032
46 RRR 2022 S.S. Rajamouli 3039
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