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 biopic on the life of fallen musician Tupac Shakur failed to garner the same praise and popularity as successful hip-hop historical flicks like Straight Outta Compton.
“A cheap, lazy exercise in myth-making. The goods, as it were, will have to be found elsewhere.” —Barry Hertz, The Globe and Mail