The Biggest Summer Blockbusters of 2017, Ranked
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.
The much-hyped reboot of the long-running TV series ended up dead in the water when it failed to perform as well as anticipated. Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron, and their muscles, star.
“Unfunny, unthrilling and unsexy, this doesn’t even reach the low bar set by the source material.” —Matthew Leyland, Total Film