X-Men: Days Of Future Past (2014)

The most recent instalment in the X-Men franchise, X-Men: Days of Future Past is a fantastic addition to it. It essentially served as a clean slate for the franchise (which was, frankly, much needed due to a series of prior continuity errors), as history was changed by sending Wolverine back in time to prevent a series of events from occurring that would have completely destroyed human-mutant relations.

The movie introduced the Sentinels – robots designed with taking out mutants in mind – and was a spectacular cinematic event with both substance and action in abundance.

Critics loved it and gave it the highest rating of any X-Men film to date – but it’s still not quite the best, as that was largely thanks to the movie’s scale (and therefore ambition) and its budget, as opposed to its story. The fact that its best scene came courtesy of a character who had about five minutes of screentime (Quicksilver) doesn’t shower the movie with glory, however.

Its worldwide gross of $748 million dwarfed the nearest competitor in the franchise (X-Men: The Last Stand) by more than $300 million.