Thriller Movies · 2020s So Far
Best Thriller Movies of the 2020s So Far, Ranked by IQ Score
Half-decade into the 2020s, the thrillers that have already entered the canon. Ranked by IQ Score.
The 2020s in thriller cinema is the decade auteur-thriller continued to dominate critical reception. Anatomy of a Fall (2023) won Best Original Screenplay. Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) is Scorsese's most-recent canonical entry. The Zone of Interest (2023) at 193 is among the database's highest-scoring films.
Anchor picks: The Zone of Interest sits at the top. Anatomy of a Fall is the canonical courtroom-thriller entry. Killers of the Flower Moon is the canonical historical-thriller. Nope (2022) and Saltburn (2023) round out the canonical 2020s thrillers.
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