The Best Movies of the 2020s (So Far), Ranked
All 20 films here, ranked by 60 players. Across the Spider-Verse leads: it wins 65% of its matchups (n = 143) and was champion in 7 of 60 brackets. Disagree? Your first pick is right here. No sign-up.
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Dune2021
Top Gun: Maverick2022
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2020s Movies: the community’s best
Win rate across 912 head-to-head picks from 60 finished brackets. n is the number of matchups behind each win rate; only entrants with 30 or more are listed.
| # | 2020s movie | W–L | Win rate | vs .500 | Titles | n |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Across the Spider-Verse2023 | 93–50 | 65% | 7 | 143 | |
| 2 | Top Gun: Maverick2022 | 88–50 | 63.8% | 8 | 138 | |
| 3 | Dune: Part Two2024 | 86–50 | 63.2% | 7 | 136 | |
| 4 | Spider-Man: No Way Home2021 | 79–48 | 62.2% | 8 | 127 | |
| 5 | Oppenheimer2023 | 78–54 | 59.1% | 3 | 132 | |
| 6 | The Batman2022 | 76–54 | 58.5% | 4 | 130 | |
| 7 | The Odyssey2026 | 19–14 | 57.6% | 2 | 33 | |
| 8 | Parasite2020 | 64–49 | 56.6% | 7 | 113 |
2020s Movies: the community tier list
From 912 head-to-head picks in 60 finished brackets. Placed by win rate, steadied toward 50% for entrants with few matchups: S is 75% or more, A 60%, B 50%, C 40%, D 25%.
Stier, win rate 75% or more
- Nobody yet
Atier, win rate 60% or more
- Across the Spider-Verse
- Top Gun: Maverick
- Dune: Part Two
- Spider-Man: No Way Home
Btier, win rate 50% or more
- Oppenheimer
- The Batman
- Parasite
- The Odyssey
- Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
- Dune
- Sinners
Ctier, win rate 40% or more
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Soul
Dtier, win rate 25% or more
- One Battle After Another
- Barbie
- KPop Demon Hunters
- Past Lives
- Anora
- Killers of the Flower Moon
Ftier, win rate 0% or more
- Nomadland
How the 2020s Movies bracket works
This 2020s movie ranking is played, not dragged 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, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final), drawn from a pool of 20 films. The draw changes every day and New draw reshuffles it whenever you like, so the same film can meet a different opponent in round one and finish somewhere else entirely. You can also play it at 8 or 20 slots for a shorter or longer run.
15 picks, 4 rounds
- Round of 168 matchups
- Quarterfinals4 matchups
- Semifinals2 matchups
- Final1 matchup
Roughly 1-2 minutes start to finish at the default size.
All 20 entrants
All 20 entrants are listed below, including Everything Everywhere All at Once, Oppenheimer, Dune and Spider-Man: No Way Home. Updated
- Everything Everywhere All at Once2022
- Oppenheimer2023
- Dune2021
- Spider-Man: No Way Home2021
- Top Gun: Maverick2022
- Parasite2020
- Dune: Part Two2024
- Barbie2023
- Across the Spider-Verse2023
- The Batman2022
- Soul2020
- Nomadland2021
- Killers of the Flower Moon2023
- Past Lives2023
- Puss in Boots: The Last Wish2022
- Anora2024
- One Battle After Another2025
- Sinners2025
- KPop Demon Hunters2025
- The Odyssey2026
Tier list instead?
Load all 20 into the tier list maker and sort them into S through F yourself: same entrants, no matchups.
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Open the bracket makerGetting a ranking you actually agree with
- Pick the film you would actually rewatch tonight, not the one with the better reputation.
- Start at 16 slots. If the result feels too obvious, replay at 20 so more of the 20 films make the field.
- Undo exists for a reason: an early-round mistake propagates all the way to the final, and there is no shame in taking it back.
Questions people ask
What is the best 2020s movie?
According to 60 BracketRanker players, Across the Spider-Verse (2023). It wins 65% of its head-to-head matchups (n = 143) and was champion in 7 of 60 brackets (11.7%).
How many films are in the 2020s Movies bracket?
The pool holds 20 films. A default run uses 16 of them and takes 15 picks across 4 rounds: Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 16, 20 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 8 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the 2020s Movies bracket take?
About 1-2 minutes — 15 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to an 8-slot bracket. There is no sign-up, and your progress is saved on this device after every pick.
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 20 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 20 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 20 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.