Sunlight still lasts until late into the evening, and temperatures on the east coast of the U.S. remain reliably sweltering. The dog days of summer are definitely here. Even so, the summer movie season is winding down. Indeed, the biggest superhero film of the season is already on streaming as of press time, and studios have entered the lull that begins sometime around mid-August and lasts until the awards season proper picks up next month.

It is for this reason that we at Den of Geek tend to wait a little bit later than the middle of the year in June to do what amounts to a temperature check. While July might mark the beginning of the back half of the year, the cinematic calendar tends to have a stronger demarcation between “summer” and “after summer.” With that said, there have been

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