The Biggest Summer Blockbusters of 2017, Ranked
by
Julia Hays, for Metacritic
– August 11, 2017
Wonder Woman vs. Spider-Man. Mummies vs. Transformers. Pirates vs. Minions. Apes vs. Aliens. Are filmgoers facing franchise fatigue yet?
In a summer packed with sequels and reboots, and few originals, only a handful of films garnered great critical praise to rise above the pack.
We’ve compiled a list of the biggest money-making blockbusters of the summer season to date—films released from May through mid-August—and ranked them by Metascore.
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photo by Universal Pictures
A soldier (Tom Cruise) goes head-to-head with a resurrected monster in the first installment in Universal Pictures' Dark Universe series.
“The Mummy is so wall-to-wall awful, so cheesy, so ridiculous, so convoluted, so uninvolving and so, so stupid.” —Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times
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