93
Oppenheimer review
Three hours on the man who built the atomic bomb, structured as a legal thriller and shot largely in close-up. Nolan's most mature film.
★★★★½ 4.8/5
2020s
Auteurs, streaming and the theatrical divide
The 2020s are still being written, and our coverage is correspondingly small. What is already clear is that the decade has been defined by a fight over where films are watched, and that the directors with enough leverage have used it to make unusually personal work at unusual scale.
The three films here are all, in different ways, arguments about that. A science fiction epic that demands the largest screen available. A three-hour dialogue-driven biography that became one of the highest-grossing films of its year. And a multiverse comedy made for fourteen million dollars that won seven Academy Awards. The decade is not short of ambition; it is short of consensus about how that ambition should reach an audience.
- 3Films reviewed
- 92.0Average score
- 2023Earliest here
- 2021Latest here
2020s films we have reviewed
Ordered by our score, highest first.
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92
Everything Everywhere All at Once review
A laundromat owner discovers she must connect with parallel versions of herself to save existence, and the film turns out to be about a mother and a d…
★★★★½ 4.7/5
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91
Dune review
The first half of Frank Herbert's novel, adapted with unusual fidelity and an extraordinary sense of scale. Patient, enormous, and confident.
★★★★½ 4.7/5
2020s index
Year, genre, director, runtime and score.
| Film | Year | Genre | Director | Runtime | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oppenheimer | 2023 | Biography | Christopher Nolan | 180 min | 93 |
| Everything Everywhere All at Once | 2022 | Sci-Fi | Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert | 139 min | 92 |
| Dune | 2021 | Sci-Fi | Denis Villeneuve | 155 min | 91 |
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