Collider has compiled a ranked list of the ten best film plot twists released so far in the 2020s, arguing the decade has already produced surprises worthy of comparison to classics like Fight Club, The Sixth Sense and Parasite. The piece frames each choice as an example of storytelling that genuinely subverts audience expectations rather than merely aiming for shock value, situating the selections within a broader tradition of memorable cinematic twists stretching back to the 1990s.

Among the films featured are M. Night Shyamalan's Trap (2024), in which a father at a concert is revealed to be a hunted serial killer, and Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022), a slasher pastiche where the "killer" turns out to be an accident, with subsequent deaths caused by the group's own paranoia. Also included are the sci-fi drama Project Hail Mary (2026), starring Ryan Gosling, which reveals its protagonist never volunteered for his space mission, and the 2026 A24 film The Drama, starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson, though the article text is cut off before its twist and the remainder of the countdown are disclosed.