Highest-Grossing Movies of All Time

Last year’s entry to the Star Wars franchise, “The Rise of Skywalker” has the lowest critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes of all movies in the series at 51%. Despite the somewhat negative reviews, the movie has sold more than 56 million tickets since its release.

The fourth and final installment of the Toy Story film series gives a warm-hearted sendoff to everyone’s favorite cowboy, as Woody leaves Buzz and the gang for Bo-Peep, with the two living in the world on their own, without a child to care for. The film also has an all-star cast, including Key and Peele, Keanu Reeves, Carl Weathers, and more.

Dan Brown’s bestselling novel inspired this blockbuster adaptation, starring Tom Hanks as American “symbologist” Robert Langdon. When a murder is committed in the Louvre Museum, Langdon and cryptographer Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou) unlock a mystery over 2,000 years in the making. The film was followed by two sequels.

The third installment of this computer-animated franchise finds the titular ogre (voiced by Mike Myers) dealing with some new responsibilities. Not only is he tasked with becoming the next king of the land, but Princess Fiona (voiced by Cameron Diaz) announces her pregnancy. While commercially successful, it was a critical disappointment.

With the recent release of “The Rings of Power” TV series, now is the perfect time to revisit Peter Jackson’s epic prequel trilogy. In the second installment, Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) and his cohorts overcome various obstacles on their way to the Lonely Mountain. Once they arrive, they must contend with the powerful dragon Smaug (voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch).

The third installment of this computer-animated film series is the franchise’s highest-grossing entry to date. It sends a misfit gang of prehistoric creatures on a perilous rescue mission to an underground world. “The manic pace quickly grows tiresome, as does the influx of cloying baby animals,” wrote critic Andrea Gronvall for the Chicago Reader.

Michael Bay’s disaster film delivers melodrama and spectacle in near equal measure, putting Earth in the crosshairs of a deadly asteroid. It’s up to a ragtag team of deep-core drillers to save the planet. Boston Globe critic Jay Carr called it “big and noisy and stupid and shameless” before accurately predicting that it was “going to be huge at the box office.”

The sequel to “Finding Nemo” (2003) was a huge success, grossing more than half a billion dollars so far at the domestic box office when adjusted for inflation. The movie stars Ellen DeGeneres as the voice of absent-minded fish Dory on a mission to find her lost parents. Critics Consensus on Rotten Tomatoes says the film is “Funny, poignant, and thought-provoking” and critics gave it a Freshness score of 94%.

Spielberg’s beloved film series went back to the basics in this third entry, teaming Indy (Harrison Ford) with his estranged father (Sean Connery). Against the backdrop of WWII, the pair must outwit Nazis in their search for the Holy Grail. This entry in the series was followed by “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” and a fifth installment is slated to arrive in 2023.

Ex-villain turned doting father Gru (voiced by Steve Carrell) is recruited for an important mission in this computer-animated sequel. On sites like Rotten Tomatoes, it scored about as well as its popular predecessor. A third installment followed, and “Despicable Me 4” is currently in development.