15 Highest Grossing Movies Of The Decade: Ranked Worst To Best

1. Skyfall

Worldwide Box Office: $1.108 billion

All-Time Ranking: #14

2010s Ranking: #11

Skyfall is nothing short of incredible. It's at once an exploration of maternal figures, a dissection of whether a spy born out of the Cold War has a place in both modern espionage and multiplexes and a thoughtful meditation on what masculinity now means, without ever letting that get in the way of it simply being a brilliant Bond movie.

And if you think to lead with the hidden depths is reading too much into what is at its heart an action movie, don't forget the movie itself points the audience in that direction. When Bond meets the new, prim Q in the National Gallery, they each present their thesis on JMW Turner's The Fighting Temeraire; the quartermaster sees the melancholy of an old great being reduced to scrap, while the agent only sees "a bloody big ship".

From Roger Deakin's cinematography being highly reminiscent of Turner's artwork to the duality of meaning, this scene defines the movie, detailing how great art by its very nature works on multiple levels; it's easy to see Skyfall as just another bloody big Bond movie, but if you take time to let it all in it's revealed to offer so much more.

No wonder it's the franchise's most successful film by quite a margin.

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