Best of the 2020s · 1001 canon

Mid-decade, and the canon is still settling

The 2020s are still in motion — five years of films, a global pandemic that reshaped distribution, the return of the auteur to multiplex programming. Everything Everywhere All At Once, Oppenheimer, Past Lives, Anatomy of a Fall, Sinners. This list will be wrong in a year and we'll fix it. Watch it grow.

50 films from this decade are in the canon. Tick what you've seen — your progress saves on this device.