![]() ![]() There have been franchise installments ( Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Fast X), superhero installments ( Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, The Flash), and long-tail nostalgia sequels ( Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny). The summer blockbuster season of 2023 seems on paper like the first normalish one in a long while. And last year’s off-kilter maximalism was so extra, even for spectacle blockbuster season, that I called it the “summer of swirly, googly, bombastic, over-the-top movies.” The summer of 2021, with its in-between state and slowly reopening theaters, was headlined by a lot of really strange films. ![]() There was the year when blockbusters started to balloon far beyond the margins of “summer.” There was the pandemic summer, when there were no blockbusters at all. For a few years, every summer movie season has felt like the weirdest one. ![]()
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