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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