Collider has published a ranked list of the ten movie trilogies it considers most universally acclaimed, highlighting film series that have maintained exceptional critical and audience praise across all instalments. The list spans genres from arthouse cinema to family animation and blockbuster franchises, citing examples such as the Three Colours trilogy, The Godfather films, the Dark Knight trilogy and How to Train Your Dragon as trilogies that succeeded where many others falter across three films.

– Three Colours trilogy (No. 10) – Krzysztof Kieślowski's Blue, White and Red, exploring liberty, equality and fraternity through standalone psychological dramas
– The Godfather trilogy (No. 9) – Francis Ford Coppola's crime saga, with the first two films widely seen as genre-defining and the once-maligned Part III now reassessed more favourably
– Also referenced as strong examples elsewhere in the list: the Dark Knight trilogy and the How to Train Your Dragon trilogy