10 Highest-Grossing Movies Of 2015 (So Far) - Ranked From Worst To Best

2. Kingsman: The Secret Service

Matthew Vaughn's third comic book adaptation in a row after Kick-Ass and X-Men: First Class saw the director deploy his usual array of visual flourishes and subversive humour to deliver one of the most stylish and entertaining movies of the year, as well as turning Academy Award winner Colin Firth into a certifiable bad-ass.

Kingsman also turned out to be the first real sleeper hit of the year, opening to $36.2m and remaining in the domestic top ten for eight weeks. After almost three months in theatres, the movie recently crossed $400m worldwide, an impressive number for an R-rated action movie that some deemed too risky to appeal to mainstream audiences.

Injecting the spy genre with a sense of fun that has been sorely lacking in an era dominated by the super-serious likes of Bourne and Bond, Kingsman both pays to tribute to and pokes fun at the cliches of the genre by way of including sharply-dressed spies, an array of gadgets and a scenery-chewing villain. If watching Firth annihilate a room full of henchman to the tune of Freebird isn't enough bang for your buck, then the final act of the movie is nothing short of insane.