This Collider feature ranks the ten best movie trilogies in film history, highlighting series in which each instalment builds on the last without a weak entry dragging down the whole. The author contrasts these successes with well-known trilogy failures, such as Thor: The Dark World, X-Men: The Last Stand, Alien 3 and Blade: Trinity, arguing that the best trilogies function as one complete story told across three chapters.

Among the entries discussed are Richard Linklater's Before trilogy (Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Before Midnight), praised for tracking Jesse and Celine's relationship authentically over 18 years using real-time gaps between filming; Captain America's MCU trilogy (The First Avenger, The Winter Soldier, Civil War), noted for shifting genres while charting Steve Rogers' evolution from patriot to principled dissenter; and the original Indiana Jones trilogy, described as the template for modern adventure films. The article excerpt cuts off before listing the remaining seven entries in the top ten.