04. Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
Gross: $2,320,250,281
It took 15 years to get a sequel to James Cameron’s Avatar, which meant the already-stunning visual effects of the first were better, leading more people to descend into a kind of depressed mania that they couldn’t plug themselves into the world of the Na’vi (look it up, it’s a real thing). Unsurprisingly, cinema-goers went hard for Avatar’s follow-up, because it would be almost sacrilegious to view it any other way. Quite simply no films have been more tailored to the big screen, which is why this sequel immediately sky-rocketed into the top 3 highest-grossing movies of all time with more than $2.3b at the box office.