Happy Half Decade, everyone!! There have been some extraordinary films through the decade so far, even through a world-changing pandemic, and we thought we would celebrate with our own Top 10 lists of the best of the decade so far 2020-2025 (with the pandemic in mind, we have allowed some 2019 films that were released in or VERY close to 2020 as well, due to cinemas being largely closed during that crazy time).

This, as you will see, was very hard for us all, but we hope there are some on here you have seen, some you still have on your Letterboxd watchlists and some you may not have heard of – so, without further a do, here are our brilliant writing staffs favourites, as well as some links to some of our reviews so said films. Enjoy!!!

Scott J. Davis
1. Perfect Days
2. After Yang
3. Top Gun: Maverick
4. Tár
5. The Substance
6. tick, tick… BOOM!
7. Petite Maman
8. Aftersun
9. The Holdovers
10. The Banshees of Inisherin

Clotilde Chinnici
1. Parasite
2. The Brutalist
3. Little Women
4. Past Lives
5. The Holdovers
6. Triangle of Sadness
7. Everything Everywhere All At Once
8. Perfect Days
9. The Zone of Interest
10. The Holdovers

Aaron Gillingham
1. Everything Everywhere All At Once
2. Oppenheimer
3. Dune: Part Two
4. Better Man
5. Aftersun
6. Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse
7. Killers of the Flower Moon
8. Another Round
9. The Batman
10. Sinners

Nick Bartlett
1. Aftersun
2. Another Round
3. Tar
4. Anora
5. The Zone Of Interest
6. Perfect Days
7. Monster
8. Women Talking
9. The Worst Person In The World
10. The Green Knight

Josh Barton
1. Top Gun Maverick
2. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
3. Parasite
4. Everything Everywhere All At Once
5. Dune Part Two
6. Oppenheimer
7. Sinners
8. The Batman
9. Godzilla Minus One
10. Avatar: The Way of Water

Freda Cooper
1. The Brutalist
2. The Zone Of Interest
3. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
4. Anatomy Of A Fall
5. Nickel Boys
6. Portrait Of A Lady On Fire
7. Past Lives
8. The Banshees Of Inisherin
9. Boiling Point
10. Petite Maman

Sean Wilson
1. Aftersun
2. Parasite
3. Top Gun: Maverick
4. Past Lives
5. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
6. Anatomy of a Fall
7. Godzilla Minus One
8. The Green Knight
9. Poor Things
10. A Real Pain

Erin Mussett
1. Nickel Boys
2. Oppenheimer
3. Dune: Part Two
4. The Banshees of Inisherin
5. Sinners
6. Past Lives
7. Dune
8. I’m Still Here
9. The Holdovers
10. Soul

Robert Ewing
1. Parasite
2. Evangelion: 3.0+1.11 Thrice Upon a Time
3. The Wild Robot
4. The Colors Within
5. The Zone of Interest
6. Twilight of the Warriors Walled In
7. The Shadow Strays
8. Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window
9. Blue Giant
10. Baby Assassins Nice Days

Cara McWilliam-Richardson
1. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse
2. Dune
3. When Evil Lurks
4. Minari
5. The Zone of Interest
6. Spider-Man: No Way Home
7. Monster
8. Nope
9. Robot Dreams
10. Host

Connor James Sanford
1. Mass
2. Nitram
3. Ballywalter
4. Aftersun
5. Tár
6. Hard Truths
7. The Worst Person in the World
8. Babylon
9. Anatomy of a Fall
10. Hit the Road

Lexi Lane
1. Anora
2. Priscilla
3. Killers of the Flower Moon
4. The Fabelmans
5. Past Lives
6. Poor Things
7. Aftersun
8. Challengers
9. Love Life
10. Anatomy of a Fall

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Liam Williams
1. Decision to Leave
2. Aftersun
3. Worst Person in The World
4. Challengers
5. The Holdovers
6. Perfect Days
7. The Batman
8. Another Round
9. Oppenheimer
10. The Banshees of Inisherin

Aaron Jenkins
1. Everything eEverywhere All At Once
2. Sinners
3. Dune: Part Two
4. Top Gun: Maverick
5. All Quiet On The Western Front
6. Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse
7. Prey
8. Talk To Me
9. The Whale
10. The Batman

Victoria Luxford
1. Everything Everywhere All at Once
2. Oppenheimer
3. Killers Of The Flower Moon
4. The Zone Of Interest
5. The Banshees of Inisherin
6. Nomadland
7. Kneecap
8. Dune
9. Barbie
10. Flow

Ellis Lamai (unranked)
Licorice Pizza
Drive My Car
Lover’s Rock
Killers of the Flower Moon
Tenet
Oppenheimer
Memoria
Asteroid City
The French Dispatch
Nickel Boys

Tatiana Chryssolor
1. Wicked
2. We Live In Yime
3. The Lost City
4. A Man Called Otto
5. Don’t Worry Darling
6. Everything Everywhere All At Once
7. Leave The World Behind
8. Inside Out 2
9. Mrs Chatterjee vs Norway
10. Heretic

Emlyn Roberts-Harry
1. Petite Maman
2. The Boy and the Heron
3. The Lighthouse
4. Robot Dreams
5. Turning Red
6. West Side Story
7. Godzilla Minus One
8. The Green Knight
9. The Substance
10. Dungeons &a Dragons: Honour Among Thieves. (Honourable mention to Jackass Forever)

Phebe Williams
1. Top Gun Maverick
2. Better Man
3. Wicked
4. We Live in Time
5. Anyone But You
6. Operation Mincemeat
7. Greatest Days
8. Joy
9. The Great Escaper
10. A Man Called Otto

Luke Hearfield
1. Poor Things
2. Another Round
3. Perfect Days
4. The Worst Person in the World EEAAO
5. All of Us Strangers
6. The Substance
7. Anora
8. Hit Man
9. Barbie
10. Parasite

Gemma Nettle
1. Top Gun: Maverick
2. The Holdovers
3. Sound of Metal
4. Promising Young Woman
5. Godzilla Minus One
6. My Octopus Teacher
7. tick, tick… BOOM!
8. All of Us Strangers
9. Challengers
10. Past Lives

Lily Hitchen
1. Aftersun
2. Top Gun: Maverick
3. David Byrne’s American Utopia
4. The Holdovers
5. I Saw The TV Glow
6. I’m Still Here
7. A Real Pain
8. La Chimera
9. Kneecap
10. Hoard

Ibrahim Azam
1. Dune: Part Two
2. The Holdovers
3. Dune: Part One
4. The Batman
5. Babylon
6. May December
7. Longlegs
8. The Whale
9. Oppenheimer
10. Poor Things

Paul Devine
1. Dune: Part Two
2. The Batman
3. Past Lives
4. Parasite
5. Strange Darling
6. The Iron Claw
7. All Of Us Are Strangers
8. Tar
9. The Menu
10. Heretic

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