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Summer movies 2017
A guide to the season’s hottest films.
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The terrific and terrible summer 2017 movie season, explained
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Alissa Wilkinson
Summer movies 2017
A guide to the season’s hottest films.
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Why silly summer movies matter
By
Alissa Wilkinson
Hollywood's ideas about audiences are outdated. Wonder Woman's record-smashing debut proves it.
By
Alissa Wilkinson
Dunkirk turns a WWII battle into a symphony. It's Christopher Nolan's masterpiece.
By
Alissa Wilkinson
Girls Trip is a filthy, hilarious gem
By
Alex Abad-Santos
Guardians of the Galaxy 2 is Marvel’s funniest film, and much braver than the original
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Alex Abad-Santos
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Atomic Blonde is thrilling, gorgeous nonsense. More, please!
Dunkirk turns a WWII battle into a symphony. It's Christopher Nolan's masterpiece.
Do not see The Emoji Movie
War for the Planet of the Apes is the summer’s most essential blockbuster
Brigsby Bear is a sweet, bizarre little film about pop culture obsession
A Ghost Story was one of Sundance’s most buzzed-about films. It earns the hype.
The Hitman's Bodyguard has all the makings of a fun summer hit. What makes it so dull?
Ingrid Goes West, starring Aubrey Plaza as an Instagram addict, is deliciously twisted
Logan Lucky puts a West Virginia spin on an Ocean’s 11-style heist. It’s terrific fun.
The Glass Castle turns a best-selling memoir into a moving but flawed film
Detroit, about one of the biggest riots in US history, is hard to watch. That’s a good thing.
Wind River is an intense and painful thriller set on a Native American reservation
The Incredible Jessica James only works because of the incredible Jessica Williams
Girls Trip is a filthy, hilarious gem
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets has too much Valerian, too little Thousand Planets
In Lady Macbeth, privilege and power are a powder keg, and sex and murder are the spark
The Big Sick is one of the year’s best comedies, but it doesn’t shy away from heavy topics
Netflix’s To the Bone doesn’t glamorize eating disorders. It’s frank, funny, and unsparing.
Review: Spider-Man: Homecoming is the best superhero movie of 2017
In Netflix's fantastic, wacky Okja, it's Tilda Swinton vs. superpig
Despicable Me 3 is everything good and bad about the franchise in one messy package
Edgar Wright’s wildly entertaining Baby Driver is a lean, mean, genre-smashing machine
Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler are perfect partners in crime in the ridiculous, timely The House
Spider-Man: Homecoming: 5 reasons why this is the best Spider-Man movie yet
The Bad Batch isn't a great dystopian film, but it's definitely an interesting one
Sofia Coppola triumphs with The Beguiled, a suspenseful Civil War revenge comedy
Transformers: The Last Knight evaporates on contact. This could be a point in its favor.
The Book of Henry is so deliriously bad, it feels cursed
Cars 3 gets back to what made the franchise adequate
Like its characters, Rough Night is far from perfect but often hilarious
The Mummy says more about its stars and its franchise than anything mummy-related
Hollywood's ideas about audiences are outdated. Wonder Woman's record-smashing debut proves it.
Captain Underpants is better than any movie named Captain Underpants has a right to be
Review: Wonder Woman is a gorgeous, joyful triumph of a superhero film
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is the second-best Pirates movie. It’s also exhausting.
Review: Baywatch is a limp, charmless waste of talent
Netflix’s War Machine, starring Brad Pitt, is a disappointingly flat wartime farce
Alien: Covenant is too muddled to pull off its deeply ambitious Satan allegories
Paris Can Wait stars Diane Lane in a sumptuous Instagram feed disguised as a movie
Snatched caters to Amy Schumer’s comedic talents, but wastes Goldie Hawn in the process
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword is surprisingly good, and surprisingly political
The Lovers asks a loaded question: what if you cheat on your affair with your spouse?
Review: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is Marvel’s funniest film, and much braver than the original
The Dark Tower trailer is finally here
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Interviews
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How to make a great dark comedy, according to the director of a great dark comedy
The director of A Ghost Story wants to haunt his wife when he dies
Why the best summer movies are often the quirkiest
Rough Night’s Lucia Aniello on R-rated women, and why pitting them against each other sucks
Analysis
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The terrific and terrible summer 2017 movie season, explained
Dunkirk is playing in a lot of formats. Here’s how each affects your viewing experience.
Al Gore’s new Inconvenient Truth sequel is a strange artifact of a post-truth year
Dunkirk’s “mole” isn’t a spy. But if you missed that detail, you’re not alone.
Spider-Man: Homecoming honored one of the best Spider-Man issues ever created
War for the Planet of the Apes seals the blockbuster trilogy’s status as the decade’s best
Spider-Man: Homecoming: 5 of the movie’s best Easter eggs
Iron Man can't carry the MCU forever. In Spider-Man: Homecoming, Marvel passed the torch.
What Tom Holland has that other Spider-Mans haven’t
The Transformers movies are total nonsense. That’s their secret strength.
Wonder Woman’s dueling origin stories, and their effect on the hero’s feminism, explained
Patty Jenkins fought for one scene in Wonder Woman — and conquered Hollywood’s biggest problem
Wonder Woman: Chris Pine's Steve Trevor is the superhero girlfriend comic book movies need
Why silly summer movies matter
Alien: Covenant sneakily explores the horrors of directing blockbusters in 2017
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2's 5 end-credits scenes, explained [spoilers]
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2’s Thor: Ragnarok Easter egg, explained
How can movie theaters compete with your living room? By building a better living room.
Why Guardians of the Galaxy’s creativity is so important to the superhero movie genre
11 potential sleeper hits that could break the summertime blockbuster blues
Summer box office 2017: the superhero and kids movies that will dominate the season
Your summer reading list, courtesy of the movies
The summer movie sequels and reboots to watch, and the ones nobody needed
23 summer movies to get excited about
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2: 5 things to know about Marvel’s hugely anticipated sequel
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News
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Spider-Man: Homecoming’s 2 end-credits scenes, explained
Avengers: Infinity War’s new trailer turns Star-Lord and Iron Man into Marvel’s newest power couple
Wonder Woman overtakes Guardians of the Galaxy 2 to become the summer’s biggest movie
Spider-Man: Homecoming had a huge opening weekend at the box office
The outrage over Gal Gadot’s $300,000 paycheck for Wonder Woman, explained
Why Wonder Woman’s second-weekend sales are so extraordinary — and important
Why people are freaking out over Wonder Woman’s stellar Rotten Tomatoes score
Wonder Woman’s costume has gotten a lot brighter since Batman v Superman
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