How the 2020s Movies bracket works
Best 2020s movies ranked without dragging anything into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Everything Everywhere All at Once or Oppenheimer? Dune or Spider-Man: No Way Home? — and after 15 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. The awkward pairings are the point: they are the calls a drag-and-drop tier list quietly lets you avoid.
This bracket runs 4 rounds at the default 16-slot size (Round of 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship), with every one of the 16 films in the field. The field is reshuffled on every play, so the same film can meet a different opponent in round one and finish somewhere else entirely. You can also play it at 8 slots for a shorter or longer run.
15 picks, 4 rounds
- Round of 168 matchups
- Elite 84 matchups
- Final Four2 matchups
- Championship1 matchup
Roughly 1-2 minutes start to finish.
All 16 entrants
All 16 entrants are listed below, including Everything Everywhere All at Once, Oppenheimer, Dune and Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Everything Everywhere All at Once
2022
Oppenheimer
2023
Dune
2021
Spider-Man: No Way Home
2021
Top Gun: Maverick
2022
Parasite
2020
Dune: Part Two
2024
Barbie
2023
Across the Spider-Verse
2023
The Batman
2022
Soul
2020
Nomadland
2021
Killers of the Flower Moon
2023
Past Lives
2023
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
2022
Anora
2024
Would rather group them than rank them? Open all 16 in the tier list maker and sort them into S, A, B, C, D and F tiers instead — same entrants, no matchups.
How everyone else ranked them
Aggregated from 8 completed 2020s Movies brackets. Win rate is the share of head-to-head matchups each entrant has won across every play.
- 1
Parasite
16W - 5L · won 3 brackets
76%
win rate
- 2
Across the Spider-Verse
14W - 6L · won 2 brackets
70%
win rate
- 3
Everything Everywhere All at Once
10W - 7L · won 1 bracket
59%
win rate
- 4
Oppenheimer
10W - 7L · won 1 bracket
59%
win rate
- 5
Spider-Man: No Way Home
10W - 7L · won 1 bracket
59%
win rate
- 6
Dune: Part Two
10W - 8L
56%
win rate
- 7
The Batman
10W - 8L
56%
win rate
- 8
Top Gun: Maverick
9W - 8L
53%
win rate
- 9
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
7W - 8L
47%
win rate
- 10
Dune
6W - 8L
43%
win rate
Getting a ranking you actually agree with
- 1Pick the film you would actually rewatch tonight, not the one with the better reputation.
- 2The default run puts all 16 films in the draw. Short on time? Drop to 8 slots — a quicker run over a random 8 of them.
- 3Undo exists for a reason: an early-round mistake propagates all the way to the final, and there is no shame in taking it back.
2020s Movies bracket FAQ
How many films are in the 2020s Movies bracket?
The pool holds 16 films. A default run puts all of them in the draw and takes 15 picks across 4 rounds: Round of 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 16 slots.
Which films are included?
Everything Everywhere All at Once, Oppenheimer, Dune, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Top Gun: Maverick, Parasite, Dune: Part Two, Barbie, Across the Spider-Verse, The Batman, Soul and Nomadland, plus 4 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the best 2020s movies ranked take?
About 1-2 minutes — 15 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to a 8-slot bracket. There is no sign-up and nothing is stored until you reach the final.
Is this a 2020s movies tier list or a ranking?
Both are here, and the bracket is closer to a tier list than it looks. It ends with a champion, a runner-up and then every other film grouped by the round it went out in — which is exactly a set of tiers, decided by 15 direct comparisons rather than by your first guess at a layout. What it deliberately does not do is claim a precise gap between two films that never met. If you would rather place the films into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 16 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
Is there a community 2020s movies ranking?
Every completed bracket feeds the 2020s Movies community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 16 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
Can I change which films are included?
Use the bracket maker: add your own films, name it, and share the link so other people play the same field. That is the route to take when this pool of 16 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.