The best films of 2020s so far ranked by critics and Top Gun Maverick has been robbed.
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We’re now halfway through the decade, and 100 film critics have been asked what their five favourite movies released between 2020 and 2024 are.
Polled by , the result is a Top 21 films of the 2020s, with only the Top 5 not having tied in the voting.
Criminally, Tom Cruise’s critically acclaimed box office smash, , scraps the list with just seven votes, coming in joint 10th with Barbie and Killers of the Flower Moon.
In 9th place on eight votes each are Anora, The Fabelmans, All of Us Strangers, The Worst Person in the World and RRR.
Licorice Pizza, The Banshees of Inisherin, Promising Young Woman and Aftersun are joint 8th with 9 votes, behind The Power of the Dog and Past Lives in 7th with 10 votes.
Meanwhile, 6th place goes to Anatomy of A Fall and Poor Things and then we get to the Top 5 who are well ahead of the pack.
5. Drive My Car (14 votes)
This 2021 Japanese drama follows a theatre director who helms multilingual productions of the Russian play Uncle Vanya, while mourning his wife. The critically acclaimed three hour film was nominated for four Oscars and won Best International Feature Film. It was the first Japanese movie to receive a Best Picture nomination.
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4. The Zone of Interest (16 votes)
Widely considered the most powerful Holocaust film since Schindler’s List, this German-language historical drama follows the family life of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss in his home next door to the concentration camp. The film never depicts the genocidal horrors on the other side of the walls, but you can hear them while witnessing the banality of evil encased in the disturbingly ordinary lives of the perpetrators. Nominated for five Oscars, this non-English language British film won Best International Feature and Best Sound.
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3. Everything Everywhere All at Once (19 votes)
This absurdist comedy follows a Chinese-American immigrant who traverses the multiverse to prevent a powerful enemy from destroying all of reality. Nominated for 11 Oscars, the film won seven, including Best Picture, Best Actress for Michelle Yeoh, Best Supporting Actor for Ke Huy Quan, Best Supporting Actress for Jamie Lee Curtis and Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for directing duo Daniels.
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2. Tár (21 votes)
Cate Blanchett stars as a world-famous conductor who is accused of misconduct. Critically acclaimed, the film was nominated for six Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, while Blanchett won Best Actress at the BAFTAs, Golden Globes, and Critics’ Choice Awards.
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