The decade of the 2010s in film involved many significant developments in the motion picture industryasDisney towered all over its competitors. The studio's titles occupy exactly half of the top 50 highest-grossing movies at the worldwide box office of these ten years with solely one of those entries not reaching a billion dollars and the only three features on the entire list to cross the $2 billion mark, while Universal and Warner Bros. share the distant second place at eight titles each. Furthermore, non-Disney films managed to become the top-grosser of a year merely twice during the decade. This domination culminated in the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney.
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The list has more 2019 films in the top 50 than any other year, with nine in total (seven by Disney). It is then followed by 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018 with six; 2012 with five; 2013 with four; 2010 and 2011 with three; and 2014 with two (the only year in which Disney did not have a billion dollar grosser and failed to make the list). All but three films (two animated and one biopic) are based on another property. Figures are given in United States dollars.
Disney releases were the annual top-grossers for the entire latter half of the decade.
| Year | Title | Studio(s) | Worldwide Gross | Ref. |
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| 2010 | Toy Story 3 | Disney | $1,066,969,703 | |
| 2011 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 | Warner Bros. | $1,342,511,219 | |
| 2012 | The Avengers | Disney | $1,518,812,988 | |
| 2013 | Frozen | $1,280,802,282 | ||
| 2014 | Transformers: Age of Extinction | Paramount | $1,104,054,072 | |
| 2015 | Star Wars: The Force Awakens | Disney | $2,068,223,624 | |
| 2016 | Captain America: Civil War | $1,153,304,495 | ||
| 2017 | Star Wars: The Last Jedi | $1,332,539,889 | ||
| 2018 | Avengers: Infinity War | $2,048,359,754 | ||
| 2019 | Avengers: Endgame | $2,797,800,564 |
OnRotten Tomatoes, the following five films of the 2010s received 100% critics' ratings.[52]
Metacritic listed the following as the top ten highest rated films (at the time of their release) of the 2010s.[53]
Metacritic also listed the following films as most mentioned on critic's lists of the best films of the 2010s.[54]
According to They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?, a site which numerically calculates reception among critics, the most acclaimed films of the 2010s are:[55]
Den of Geek listed the following as the top ten best movies of the decade.[56]
Rolling Stone magazine listed the following as the top ten best movies of the decade.[57]
Indiewire listed the following as the top ten best movies of the decade.
In 2016, BBC's 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century poll of film critics listed the following as the top ten best films of the 2010s so far.[58]
In 2017, The New York Times' list of "The 25 Best Films of the 21st Century So Far" selected the following as the best films of the 2010s so far.[59]
