20 Greatest Movies of Each Year 2020s

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Criteria: The movies are ranked according to their initial and lasting acclaim, influence as well as initial and lasting popularity.

Last Updated: 2024-11-01
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  #. Movie Title - (Directors Name)

  1. Oppenheimer - (Christopher Nolan)
  2. Barbie - (Greta Gerwig)
  3. Killers of the Flower Moon - (Martin Scorsese)
  4. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - (Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers & Justin K. Thompson)
  5. Poor Things - (Yorgos Lanthimos)
  6. Past Lives - (Celine Song)
  7. Anatomy of a Fall - (Justine Triet)
  8. The Zone of Interest - (Jonathan Glazer)
  9. The Holdovers - (Alexander Payne)
10. The Boy and the Heron - (Hayao Miyazaki)
11. John Wick: Chapter 4 - (Chad Stahelski)
12. Godzilla Minus One - (Takashi Yamazaki)
13. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 - (James Gunn)
14. May December - (Todd Haynes)
15. Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One - (Christopher McQuarrie)
16. Fallen Leaves - (Aki Kaurismäki)
17. American Fiction - (Cord Jefferson)
18. All of Us Strangers - (Andrew Haigh)
19. Society of the Snow - (J. A. Bayona)
20. Perfect Days - (Wim Wenders)

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20 Greatest Movies of 2022

  1. Everything Everywhere All at Once - (Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert)
  2. Top Gun: Maverick - (Joseph Kosinski)
  3. Avatar: The Way of Water - (James Cameron)
  4. The Banshees of Inisherin - (Martin McDonagh)
  5. The Batman - (Matt Reeves)
  6. Tár - (Todd Field)
  7. Aftersun - (Charlotte Wells)
  8. RRR - (S.S. Rajamouli)
  9. The Fabelmans - (Steven Spielberg)
10. All Quiet on the Western Front - (Edward Berger)
11. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery - (Rian Johnson)
12. Nope - (Jordan Peele)
13. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish - (Joel Crawford)
14. Elvis - (Baz Luhrmann)
15. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio - (Guillermo del Toro & Mark Gustafson)
16. Decision to Leave - (Park Chan-wook)
17. Triangle of Sadness - (Ruben Östlund)
18. All the Beauty and Bloodshed - (Laura Poitras)
19. The Northman - (Robert Eggers)
20. The Quiet Girl - (Colm Bairéad)

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20 Greatest Movies of 2021

  1. Dune - (Denis Villeneuve)
  2. Spider-Man: No Way Home - (Jon Watts)
  3. The Power of the Dog - (Jane Campion)
  4. Drive My Car - (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
  5. Licorice Pizza - (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  6. CODA - (Sian Heder)
  7. The Worst Person in the World - (Joachim Trier)
  8. Judas and the Black Messiah - (Shaka King)
  9. West Side Story - (Steven Spielberg)
10. Belfast - (Kenneth Branagh)
11. Summer of Soul (...or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) - (?uestlove)
12. King Richard - (Reinaldo Marcus Green)
13. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings - (Destin Daniel Cretton)
14. tick, tick... BOOM! - (Lin-Manuel Miranda)
15. Bo Burnham: Inside - (Bo Burnham)
16. Flee - (Jonas Poher Rasmussen)
17. The Green Knight - (David Lowery)
18. Titane - (Julia Ducournau)
19. No Time to Die - (Cary Joji Fukunaga)
20. The French Dispatch - (Wes Anderson)

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20 Greatest Movies of 2020

  1. Nomadland - (Chloe Zhao)
  2. The Father - (Florian Zeller)
  3. Soul - (Pete Docter)
  4. Minari - (Lee Isaac Chung)
  5. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train - (Haruo Sotozaki)
  6. Promising Young Woman - (Emerald Fennell)
  7. Another Round - (Thomas Vinterberg)
  8. The Trial of the Chicago 7 - (Aaron Sorkin)
  9. Tenet - (Christopher Nolan)
10. The Invisible Man - (Leigh Whannell)
11. Palm Springs - (Max Barbakow)
12. Never Rarely Sometimes Always - (Eliza Hittman)
13. Hamilton - (Thomas Kail)
14. Mank - (David Fincher)
15. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm - (Jason Woliner)
16. Quo Vadis, Aida? - (Jasmila Zbanic)
17. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - (George C. Wolfe)
18. Wolfwalkers - (Tomm Moore & Ross Stewart)
19. A Quiet Place Part ll- (John Krasinski)
20. My Octopus Teacher - (Pippa Ehrlich & James Reed)

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