20 Must-See Billion Dollar Movies

14. Black Panther

Jurassic Park
Marvel Studios

Gross: $1,346,913,161 (#12 of All Time)

Black Panther is not only one of the MCU's highest-grossing films, it's also one of its best and certainly the most culturally important.

A superbly-made blockbuster with great drama and a mesmerising, brilliant villain played to perfection by Michael B. Jordan, Black Panther succeeded where 2019's Captain Marvel failed by doing an important MCU First (the first black-led MCU film in this case) true justice.

Thanks to the stunning world-building, terrific visuals and interesting story this really stands out among the crowded field of recent superhero blockbusters. Black Panther himself is kind-of boring, but Chadwick Boseman's excellent performance and the general strength of the film's other characters more than makes up for that. Gotta love that killer soundtrack too.

It's not quite the greatest MCU film, but it's certainly in the top ten and it being nominated for Best Picture was hard to complain about.

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Film Studies graduate, aspiring screenwriter and all-around nerd who, despite being a pretentious cinephile who loves art-house movies, also loves modern blockbusters and would rather watch superhero movies than classic Hollywood films. Once met Tommy Wiseau.