The 10 biggest box office movie hits of 2022, from Avatar: The Way of Water to Doctor Strange 2

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Saturday 31 December 2022 16:38 GMT

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With 2022 coming to an end, movie fans are looking at the global box office to find out which 10 films were this year’s biggest.

It was a big year for cinema thanks to the release of blockbusters inclusding Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Top Gun: Maverick.

December saw a huge box office boost also thanks to the release of James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water , which became the the third film this year to cross the $1bn (£830m) mark.

Other big films to have been released in 2022 were The Batman and Jurassic World: Dominion.