The 8 Biggest Movies of 2018, and Whether They Were Any Good

The top eight worldwide grosses of 2018, counted up from smallest to biggest, next to their movie.guru scores. The money and the quality barely met.

The number one movie made $2.05B. You're still gonna be mad.

1. 8
   Deadpool 2 (2018)7.7

   Funny, sure, but the jokes outran the movie.

   Crowd Pleaser with a 7.7 movie.guru score and $785.9M worldwide. Guru's Take is 6.6 because the back half runs on sequel gags, not story.
2. 7
   Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)9.1

   The best movie of 2018. Not close.

   Highest movie.guru score here at 9.1, 98% on Rotten Tomatoes. The villain plot is kinda forgettable, and it still out-stunts everything on this list.
3. 6
   Venom (2018)4.5

   A bad movie everybody secretly had fun with.

   Critics gave it 31% on Rotten Tomatoes. Audiences still paid $856.1M worldwide to watch Tom Hardy argue with his own goo. Movie.guru score: 4.5.
4. 5
   Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)7.0

   A greatest hits playlist pretending to be a biopic.

   Metacritic 49, audiences in the 88th percentile, $911.1M worldwide on a reported $50 to $55M budget. Rami Malek commits. The script plays it painfully safe.
5. 4
   Aquaman (2018)5.8

   Gorgeous, loud, and perfectly average. A 5.8 holding a trident.

   $1.15B worldwide and a 5.8 movie.guru score, barely above the 5.5 median. Jason Momoa is having a blast. The script is not invited.
6. 3
   Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)4.3

   The worst movie here, and it made $1.31 billion.

   Movie.guru score 4.3, lowest of the eight, yet $1.31B worldwide. Audiences landed in the 40th percentile. Even the crowd that paid for it shrugged.
7. 2
   Black Panther (2018)8.9

   Great movie with a final battle that looks like a cutscene.

   8.9 movie.guru score, A+ CinemaScore, $700.1M domestic. Michael B. Jordan steals it. Guru's Take is 8.0 because the big CGI finale goes soft and rubbery.
8. 1
   Avengers: Infinity War (2018)8.5

   Biggest movie of 2018, and it's only half a movie.

   $2.05B worldwide and 8.4 on IMDb from 1,417,972 votes. Still a giant setup for the sequel, and Metacritic gave it 68 next to Black Panther's 88.

$2,063 says someone in the comments calls Venom a masterpiece and fully means it.

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