To me, The Lord of the Rings franchise comes to mind. General audiences love it for the action set pieces and the adventure aspect, Tolkien/book fans love it for being a pretty true to form adaptation and the care and thought Jackson put into translating that world on screen, critics love it for all the technical aspects and the scope of it all, and the film industry recognized it with a ton of awards. I think it's one of the few movie franchises or movies in general that ticks all of the boxes.
It was not. Jackson himself said something like, "sure, it's not Lord of the Rings but I still think it's a pretty good movie". It got a fair amount of hate from die-hard Tolkien fans (like me), including Christopher Tolkien.
The Lord of the Rings (film series) - Wikipedia
As for some movies that I would say are universally popular:
Original Star Wars
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
Casablanca
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Lawrence of Arabia
Plenty others
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