Sci-fi fans are some of the most passionate, so we know they’ll love this new graphic from the PixlParade team. They gathered the 50 highest-grossing science fiction films and ranked them by their score on Rotten Tomatoes, a website that allows professional film reviewers and critics to submit their scores and reviews, which are compiled into a total score. Many film buffs turn to Rotten Tomatoes to decide which films to watch and as a starting point for how to form their own rating and analysis of a movie. View full chart
The team discovered that these ten films had the highest scores: 1. E.T. Extraterrestrial: 99% Rotten Tomatoes score 2. Gravity: 96% Rotten Tomatoes score 3. Star Wars – The Empire Strikes Back: 95% score 4. Wall. E: 95% Rotten Tomatoes score 5. War of the Planet of the Apes: 94% Rotten Tomatoes score 6. Star Wars: The Force Awakens: 93% Rotten Tomatoes score 7. Star Wars: A New Hope: 93% Rotten Tomatoes score 8. Dune Part Two: 92% Rotten Tomatoes score 9. Star Wars: The Last Jedi: 91% Rotten Tomatoes score 10. Jurassic Park: 91% Rotten Tomatoes score
However, they compared scores to those of the highest-grossing sci-fi films. These films made the most at the box office: 1. Avatar (2009): $2,923,706,026 2. Avatar: The Way of Water (2022): $2,320,250,281 3. Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015): $2,068,223,624 4. Jurassic World (2015): $1,670,516,444 5. Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017): $1,332,539,889 6. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018): $1,308,467,944 7. Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011): $1,123,794,079 8. Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014): $1,104,054,072 9. Jurassic Park (1993): $1,103,086,582 10. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019): $1,074,144,248
It’s no surprise to see E.T. The Extraterrestrial at the top of the ratings list. This Spielberg classic is a fan favorite. Were you surprised by any of the other results? The Avatar franchise may be surprising as a top-grossing film, given that it was famously expensive to produce.
