Just as we could easily count numerous movies that performed modestly (or even poorly) at the box office among some of the best movies of the 2000s, not all of the movies that scored the biggest box office hauls during the 2000s were a hit with the critics. And that's exactly what we're here to explore. Up ahead, you'll find some of the biggest box office winners of the first decade of the century, as well as whether or not the critics liked them.
For the box office totals, we're focusing on the worldwide box office total for films released between 2000 and 2009 (based on Box Office Mojo's numbers), and the review scores included for each film, as listed by Rotten Tomatoes. Here are 30+ box office winners from the 2000s (in no particular order).
