Summer 2026 Movie Roundup
I saw a lot of new movies this summer! In fact, I went to the actual theatre four times (MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE, THE ODYSSEY, SPIDER-MAN, and COYOTE V ACME), which is probably more than I’ve gone in a single season since before Covid.
So, as usual, here are the movies I saw this summer, rated from least favorite to most favorite. The grades are totally subjective and based on nothing but my own thoughts and opinions.
THE BREADWINNER (2026)
Basically standup comedian Nate Bargatze’s act come to life as a movie. If you seen Bargatze’s standup, his usual routine is to portray himself as the Dumb Husband & Bumbling Girl Dad. Which is actually quite clever from a comedic standpoint, since you’re unlikely to have outraged mobs howling for your head if all you’re doing is making fun of yourself.
Anyway, Bargatze portrays Nate Wilcox, the best Toyota salesman in Nashville. (Don’t worry, this is only the first of many product placement moments.) He lets his wife Kate manage the household and do the bulk of the work with their three daughters. When Kate’s invention takes off on Shark Tank, she has to go to South Korea for two weeks, leaving Nate in charge of the kids. Comedic chaos ensues.
On the positive side, I did approve how the movie showed a married couple trying to work through a rough patch and do what’s right for their kids in a semi-productive way rather than blowing up their lives over nonsensical trivialities in the style of EAT, PRAY, LOVE. On the downside, there was a LOT of product placement, to the point where at times felt like a extended commercial with bits of plot jammed in between product endorsement. No doubt most of the production budget came from product placement money.
Will Forte was funny as an eccentric roofing contractor, and Martin Herlihy as a shifty DoorDash employee. Kumail Nanjiani was funny as Nate’s rival salesman at the car dealership.
Blandly amusing and inoffensive, with some funny slapstick moments.
Overall grade: C-
SUPERGIRL (2026)
A strange combination of JOHN WICK and the human trafficking subplot from 2020’s BLACK WIDOW.
This wasn’t quite as good as SUPERMAN from 2025, alas.
I did like the interpretation of Supergirl. Kara Zor-El’s departure from Krypton was far more traumatic than Superman’s, so she’s dealing with her emotional issues by traveling from planet to planet with a red sun and getting hammered, since the same yellow sun that gives Kryptonians their superpowers also keeps them from getting drunk. However, she comes to a planet where a girl named Ruthye lives. Ruthye’s family has been slaughtered by ruthless brigands led by Krem of the Yellow Hills, and she’s going on a quest for revenge. When Ruthye tries to recruit Kara for the quest, she’s not interested, but then Krem steals Kara’s spaceship and poisons her dog Krypto. Krem carries the antidote on his person, so now Kara and Ruthye team up to get vengeance on Krem and to heal Krypto. Krem is a nasty piece of work, and he and his space gang travel from planet to planet abducting women to be their wives.
I think the problem was that Krem was boring. He was basically a Space Thug with too many piercings. Lex Luthor from 2025’s SUPERMAN, by contrast, was a really interesting villain, this malignant narcissist who knows that his obsession with Superman is over the top, but he’s going to act on it anyway. Additionally, I don’t think this version of Supergirl is quite capable of being a lead character. She’s make an excellent secondary character, but I don’t think she could carry a movie on her own.
Jason Momoa was pretty good as Lobo.
Overall grade: C-
TROY (2004)
I wanted to see this either before or after I watched THE ODYSSEY (2026), and I ended up watching it the day before.
Slow and ponderous, but I did enjoy watching it.
This is an adaptation of THE ILLIAD, and has sort of the slow stateliness of epic films from the 60s. Good performances, good battle scenes. Brian Cox was enjoyable as a scenery-chewing Agamemnon, and Brad Pitt worked as Achilles. Interestingly, his version of Achilles reminded of the interpretation of Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen from DUNE 2, as sort of a violent psychopath with his own twisted sense of honor.
Oddly, despite the movie’s length, the ending seems a bit rushed, like we needed to hurry up and get to the Trojan Horse.
It was amusing how Achilles’s relationship with Patroclus was changed to “cousin” for the modern audience, but Greek views on sexuality would very definitely be unpalatable to both the right wing and left wing versions of the modern mind. Which is a good thing, since while the ancient Greeks contributed a lot to the development of civilization, they were into a lot of unsavory stuff.
A fun epic movie, but I think this walked so the 2026 version of THE ODYSSEY could run. Amusing fact: Christopher Nolan was apparently supposed to direct this, but the deal fell through and he got BATMAN BEGINS as a consolation prize instead.
Overall grade: B-
THE DINK (2026)
An Apple TV comedy movie about pickleball. I feel like this was made because some Apple executive got made fun by some tennis players for playing pickleball, and then decided to take revenge.
Jake Johnson plays Dustin Boyd, a washed-up former child tennis star who now works at his father’s tennis club. The club has difficulties because of a growing influx of pickleball players, who the hardcore tennis hate. Dustin’s father decides to use the club’s bylaws to force a duel match to decide the issue, in the grand tradition of wacky comedy stakes. Dustin really wants to play the duel match, but his wrist is injured in an accident. To get his wrist mobility back, his doctor suggests that he should play some pickleball. Dustin views this as beneath him, but he really wants to play again, so he signs up for pickeball.
A wacky sports comedy/buddy movie follows as Dustin gradually befriends an eccentric older pickleball player.
Ed Harris should do more comedic roles. He was great as Dustin’s stern yet unscrupulous father.
I admire Apple TV’s dedication to making random stuff.
Overall grade: B-
GREEN AND GOLD (2025)
A melodrama about a farmer and his granddaughter dealing with the grim economic realities of farming.
Set in 1992-1993 era Wisconsin, Buck refuses to modernize his dairy farm in Door County, Wisconsin. His granddaughter Jenny is a talented musician and also a skilled farmer, and Buck wants her to take over the farm one day, but Jenny’s ambitions are looking elsewhere. Events come to a head when Jenny realizes that Buck is deeply in debt to the bank, which is about to foreclose on his farm. However, Buck and the chief banker have a personal animosity, so they settled on a bet. If the Green Bay Packers win a Super Bowl title in 1993, the banker will give Buck one more year to turn things around on the farm. Meanwhile, Jenny begins to wonder if her music ambitions might generate the money to save the farm.
Of course, if you are familiar with the history of the Packers, you will know that they won a Super Bowl in 1996, not 1993.
The movie is carried on the back of the very strong performances of his actors. It also has an ambiguously happy ending, as is true with so many things in farming. I liked this movie because I’ve spent a lot of my life in the Midwest, but I did appreciate how it shows the difficulties of the farming life.
Also! A fall from a ladder is a plot point. Ladder safety is important, people! If you are going up a ladder, for heaven’s sake don’t climb the ladder in high heels! Wear sensible, well-fitting shoes with good soles! A very long time ago I used to work with a guy who would climb extension ladders in cowboy boots, and it is nothing short of God’s mercy that he didn’t fall off and shatter half the bones in his body.
Overall grade: B
GRUMPY OLD MEN (1993)
Apparently this is set in Wabasha, Minnesota, which is amusing because filming took place in several areas in the Twin Cities and eastern Minnesota, but not actually Wabasha. I found that personally amusing because I’m quite familiar with the area so I recognized several locations.
Anyway, the movie is about two retirees, Max and John, who are enemies and have been enemies for years. But Max is lonely and wants to get married again, and John is about to lose his house to the IRS due to tax problems. Things come to a head when an attractive literature professor moves across the street, and both Max and John take an interest in her and start competing. However, it turns out that Max and John are actually best friends whose love language happens to be hatred and practical jokes. Kind of like Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner, but more on them below.
This was a good character comedy/drama. It was interesting that the professor was an early version of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope, albeit several decades before someone came up with that term. Worth watching both as a character comedy/drama and a time capsule of the 1990s. Sometimes a movie ages a bit badly (AIRPLANE! and THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR from the Spring Movie Roundup come to mind) but this didn’t.
The sequel GRUMPIER OLD MEN from 1995 is basically the same movie but with the characters acting about 20% dumber so a sitcom-style plot can happen. Entertaining, but not as good as the first one, so GRUMPIER OLD MEN only gets a B-.
Overall grade: B+
MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE (2026)
It was amusing to read reviews of this, because people thought way too hard about a movie that is essentially about battling action figures.
Anyway, this was pretty good. It was nice to see a movie about a SF property that doesn’t actually hate the property. Basically a live action version of the cartoons from the 80s, albeit somewhat more thoughtful. I heard someone suggest that it was close in tone to THOR: RAGNAROK, and that seems accurate.
The plot is that Skeletor conquers Eternia, and ten-year-old Prince Adam is sent with the Sword of Power through a magical portal to Earth to keep him and the Sword out of Skeletor’s reach. However, Adam loses the Sword while passing through the gate, and fifteen years later is working in human resources. He’s still seeking for the Sword, despite his therapists trying to convince him that it was a trauma-induced fantasy.
However, his persistence pays off and he does find the Sword. Teela, who is one of the resistance leaders against Skeletor, comes to find him and bring him back, but Skeletor’s minions arrive to claim the Sword as well. Adam and Teela escape back to Eternia, and it’s up to Adam to find a way to use the Sword of Power to become the hero that Eternia needs.
Dolph Lundgren’s cameo was great.
Overall, I would say this was a fun movie to watch, especially if you’re a Millennial or a Gen Xer who saw the cartoons or the live action movie back in the 80s. Jared Leto has something of a increasingly questionable reputation these days, but he did a good job as Skeletor, playing him halfway between the solemn gravitas of the 1987 version and the malevolent comedic cornball of the cartoons. (Of course, in my opinion the Frank Langella version from 1987 is the best version of Skeletor, since he plays it with all the seriousness of a Shakespearean villain monologue at the Royal Shakespeare Company.)
In hindsight it wasn’t surprising that this underperformed at the box office. It felt it was made for guys my age, not kids. Like, I would have been comfortable bringing an eight-year-old to see THE MANDALORIAN & GROGU or SUPER MARIO GALAXY, but I would have been less certain bringing a kid that age to see MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE. Additionally, it seemed very “Marvel” in tone, and I think the overall mood of the US these days is less “Marvel Cinematic Universe Quips & Banter” and more sort of the grimness of THE ODYSSEY (see below).
Overall grade: B+
YOUNG WASHINGTON (2026)
A biopic of the early life of George Washington, covering how he more or less accidentally started the French and Indian War, and how he recovered his reputation at the Battle of Braddock’s Field.
(To be fair, the international situation at the time meant someone was gonna start the French and Indian War, it just happened to be Washington who was in the wrong place at the wrong time.)
Overall, I liked this. It was reasonably historically accurate, though some of the emotional/family dialogue at time was a bit clunky. Additionally, Washington was portrayed at having revolutionary leanings way earlier in life than he actually did, since when he was a young man he had no thoughts of being anything but a British subject and officer.
That said, some of the most implausible stuff in the movie actually happened in Real Life. Like, if I were to write in a novel that the future President of the United States personally rallied the army’s rearguard to save as many men as possible from an ambush, and in the process had two horses shot out from under him and ended up with bullet holes in his hat and coat, all while fighting continuously, you would probably find that a bit implausible. But it actually happened that way, and Washington’s daring actions during the battle were one of the reasons he was appointed commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. (That, and there weren’t many other colonials with as much experience of military command.)
In that vein, the battle scenes were the best part of the movie – they captured the brutality and messiness of 18th century warfare without being especially graphic.
Anyway, I’m glad this is getting a sequel. Maybe we’ll end up with a Young Washington Cinematic Universe!
Overall grade: B+
MEET THE PARENTS (2000)
Probably the apex form of cringe comedy.
Ben Stiller plays Greg Focker, a nurse who is in love with schoolteacher Pam Byrnes. Greg wants to marry Pam, but overhears a phone call with her sister where she says her fiancee asked permission of her traditional father first. Greg decides that he’s going to ask Pam’s father’s permission first to get off on the right foot, and so accompanies Pam to her sister’s wedding and her parents house to, as the title says, Meet The Parents.
However, Pam’s father is the stern former CIA counterintelligence officer Jack, and he and Greg immediately get on each other nerves. To make things worse, the airline has lost Greg’s luggage. From these two starting premises follow a cascading series of hilarious disasters that culminate in a septic tank fire on the lawn.
I’m not sure, but I think I saw this when it came out in 2000, and I thought it was funny then. With 26 years of additional life experience under the belt, I still think it’s pretty funny. Though you could tell that it was filmed before 9/11, because if Greg had his airport meltdown scene today, the consequences would be much worse.
O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU (2000)
A very, very, very specific adaptation of THE ODYSSEY directed by the Coen Brothers.
George Clooney plays Everett, a convict who escapes from a chain gang in Mississippi during the Great Depression. He wants to find a treasure, and he recruits fellow convicts Delmar and Peter to assist him. Along the way, Everett and his team encounter 1930s-era versions of the Sirens, the Cyclops, the blind prophet Tiresias, and other characters & foes from the original Odyssey myth. Everett and his friends end up running a scam where they pretend to be a Christian music group, which leads to unexpected hilarity and opportunities.
This was also a very funny movie. Imagine THE ODYSSEY as a comedy with a lot of singing set in the Deep South during the Depression, and you’re there. If you’re a fan of bluegrass music, this is worth watching, and if you’ve seen Christopher Nolan’s THE ODYSSEY, it’s worth watching this just to ponder how the same source material can produce such wildly divergent interpretations.
And if you don’t care about the Odyssey, then this is still a fun movie to watch! Proof: I mentioned to someone that I had seen this, and she both 1.) loved the movie, and 2.) was surprised to learn that it had been inspired by the Odyssey.
Overall grade: A-
HOPPERS (2026)
Like most Pixar movies, this was very high-concept. Unlike many recent Pixar movies, it wasn’t too depressing and didn’t disappear up its own tailpipe.
In the city of Beaverton, hot-tempered girl Mabel bonds with her grandmother in their favorite place, a woodland grove favored by beavers. Years later, Mabel is a biology student under Dr. Fairfax, but is neglecting her studies to face off against her nemesis, the popular yet sketchy Mayor Jerry of Beaverton. Mayor Jerry wants to build an expressway that will wipe out the woodland grove, and he’s perfectly within his rights to do it since no animals have been found living there. Since Mabel’s grandmother has died, she’s unwilling to give up the grove.
However, Dr. Fairfax’s research might give her a way. Dr. Fairfax worked out a way to temporarily transfer human consciousness to a robotic beaver capable of speaking to real beavers, much like the plot of AVATAR. (In a funny scene, Fairfax angrily denies that it’s just like AVATAR.) Mabel gets the idea to use this to convince real beavers to settle in the grove, thereby thwarting Mayor Jerry’s plans. This touches off both a wacky yet poignant adventure.
The plot was very well-structured, and it followed the proper rules of story structure, which I’ve talked about before. Mabel definitely is a protagonist who takes action but experiences setbacks and problems of her own creation.
It was pretty good. I’d say it was a return to form for Pixar after some of their weaker movies in the 2020s.
Overall grade: A
CLARKSON’S FARM SERIES 5 (2026)
Five years ago, Jeremy Clarkson was under contract to make a new series for Amazon, so decided to film himself running his farm himself. How hard could it be?
Five years later, he has learned just how hard it can be.
I suppose the accusation could be made that Clarkson is a “celebrity farmer”, a dilettante playing at it, and there would an element of that. Certainly he is rich and famous, and when he runs into problems, he can draw upon his money and his network of connections to help him out.
But here’s the thing – other farmers have exactly the same problems, and they don’t have the money and the connections, and that’s the entire point of the show, as Clarkson himself frequently points out. (And of course there are some problems no amount of money and connections can ever fix.) CLARKSON’S FARM is an unrelenting series of problems that Clarkson and Co have to deal with, and that is an accurate view of farming life.
The show also had some criticism that it’s been spending more time on Clarkson’s farm-adjacent ventures like his farm shop and his pub, but that’s another reality of life for farmers. They have to diversify. Where I live in the rural US, most of the post office employees are farmers picking up some part-time work, and all the local farm shops advertise heavily on Facebook and YouTube.
The final few episodes of the season are an unrelenting series of cascading farming and medical disasters. I really hope there is a season 6, because it would be a bummer if the show ended on such a dour and depressing note. Though I suppose that would be accurate to the truth of farming as a career, alas.
Definitely worth watching as an entertaining look at the farming life.
Overall grade: A
Now for my three favorite movies of Summer 2026, all three of which I actually saw in the theatre.
COYOTE VS ACME (2026)
This movie had an extra surge of popularity from the fact that Warner Brothers cancelled it as a tax write-off, but distributor Ketchup Entertainment revived it. That makes it a plucky underdog, since Warner Brothers senior executives are kind of like the apex version of Soulless Corporate Bugmen. Like, if I wrote characters in my books like Warner Brothers senior executives, people would think I was being didactic and heavy-handed.
Anyway, after decades of failure in his efforts to capture the Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote decides to sue Acme Corporation for its numerous defective products. Coyote teams up with a lazy strip mall lawyer named Kevin Avery, who specializes in getting small settlements from Acme. However, Avery and Coyote end up filing a massive lawsuit against Acme, which means they will face the full wrath of Acme Corporation, including its ace lawyer Buddy Crane and its ruthless CEO Foghorn Leghorn.
What follows is a comedic courtroom battle as Coyote and Avery try to defeat Acme Corporation and defeat its sinister plans, and Coyote stars to realize that Road Runner might actually be his best friend.
Both quite amusing and touching. Glad this was rescued from the tax write-off vault!
Overall grade: A
THE ODYSSEY (2026)
This wasn’t quite as good as OPPENHEIMER in 2023, but it was still very good and very much worth seeing.
It was weird that THE ODYSSEY was a football in the neverending US culture war scrum, because the movie isn’t really political and doesn’t really have a message beyond “war is destructive and bad”, which of course every sensible person would agree with, and a lesser message of “violating the laws of morality has unforeseen cascading bad consequences including the destruction of civilization” which is also quite true and was one of the themes of OPPENHEIMER. Nolan himself dismissed the controversies as “irrelevant” and “part of the territory” since no one had actually seen the movie yet, and given that THE ODYSSEY made a billion and a half dollars, I think that proved his point. I imagine the scrutiny from Batman fans back in the 2010s was way more intense, since in the modern era many people care more deeply about the accuracy of Batman than The Odyssey.
I do think the debate over historical accuracy in The Odyssey is pointless, because the Odyssey is myth, not history. The Iliad and the Odyssey are a lot like Arthurian myth in terms of their actual historicity. Even when Arthurian legend was massively popular with English kings and nobles the last medieval and early modern period (Henry VIII’s older brother was named Arthur in imitation of King Arthur), the version of Arthurian myth they celebrated and wished to emulate had virtually no connection to the reality of Britain in the 500s AD and was instead sort of a fantasy version of their own time in the 14th and 15th centuries. By the time THE ODYSSEY was written down, a similar process was likely underway.
Both the Illiad/Odyssey and the Arthurian cycle probably have a kernel of historical truth buried underneath the tales of magic swords, sirens, cyclopses (cyclopi?), and vengeful witches with magic islands. There likely was a Romano-British warlord who might have been named Arthur (or possibly Ambrosius Aurelianus) who held off the Saxons for a while before he was overwhelmed and killed. Likewise, Heinrich Schliemann was a highly eccentric (and very sketchy) crazy rich guy, but he did prove that there really was some version of the city of Troy that was destroyed at the end of the Bronze Age. But everything beyond those basic details came from thousands of years of embellishments and flourishes from later poets and writers. So arguing about the historical accuracy of The Odyssey is a bit like arguing if STAR WARS portrays faster-than-light travel in an accurate way. That kind of argument is just missing the point entirely.
It’s always interesting to see how modern standards clash with the ancient mindset. You know how I always say that everywhere in the United States is exactly the same, right up until it really, really isn’t? I think ancient people were just like us until they really, really weren’t. Like, ancient people would have been superstitious to an extent that even the most credulous crystal-and-aura influencer on TikTok would find horrifying, and frequently violent in a way that the most strident self-defense advocate would find shocking. THE ODYSSEY’S version of Odysseus feels guilt and remorse over his actions in a way an actual ancient Greek probably wouldn’t have, but so what? This is THE ODYSSEY viewed through the lens of the 21st century, just as those English nobles viewed the myth of King Arthur and his knights through the lens of their time. As I mentioned with TROY above, the ancient Greeks were often quite brutal and would celebrate sacking an enemy city.
One side note: I probably found it funnier than I should have how Nolan favorably cited classicist Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey as a source, and Wilson had an extended and unintentionally comedic multi-article crashout about how much she hated the both the movie and, of course, the commemorative Trojan Horse Popcorn Bucket. Apparently Wilson hated the movie so much she is going to do a new translation of The Odyssey, much to her publisher’s baffled dismay. No one does offended huffy petulance quite like an academic!
Anyway, back to the movie! It follows the familiar story of Odysseus through Christopher Nolan’s preference for non-linear storytelling and practical effects. I did think it was interesting how in this interpretation, Odysseus explicitly connected the ruse of the Trojan Horse with the collapse of the Bronze Age and the rise of the Sea Peoples. It’s also probably the most supernatural film Nolan has ever done, with actual fantasy/supernatural elements as opposed to science fiction like INCEPTION, TENET, and INTERSTELLAR. Odysseus talks to Athena throughout the movie, and it’s left up to the viewer’s interpretation whether or not he’s actually talking to Athena or his own guilt-ridden hallucinations. That said, Odysseus encounters a witch with actual magic powers, and travels to the Underworld to speak with the shades of the dead, so it’s entirely possible he’s talking to the actual Athena.
In this version, as I mentioned Odysseus is guilt-ridden over the ruse of the Trojan Horse, which is shown as a violation of the sacred hospitality of Zeus’s law and as great a crime as the creation of the atomic bomb. Interestingly, this is similar to OPPENHEIMER, where Oppenheimer’s creation of the atomic bomb is treated similarly.
There are also some genuinely scary sequences in the movie – the bit with the underworld is very spooky, the cyclops is actually quite frightening, and the character of Circe reaches a level of scary previously attained by Heath Ledger’s version of The Joker in THE DARK KNIGHT. If Nolan ever decides he wants to do a horror movie, it will probably be one of the scariest ones ever made.
To sum, THE ODYSSEY has great performances, great spectacle, great cinematography, and great action sequences, and is an interesting interpretation of the original myth. Definitely worth seeing. I think you can tell it was a great movie because of all the arguments on the Internet about “what did it really mean?” Great art often has that effect.
Overall grade: A
SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY (2026)
There’s a rumor (I don’t know if it’s true or not) that Tom Holland found the experience of working with Christopher Nolan on THE ODYSSEY so eye-opening that he insisted another SPIDER-MAN movie had to have reason other than “make a lot of money.”
If this story is true, it clearly worked. Previously I thought the two best SPIDER-MAN movies were SPIDER-MAN 2 from 2004 and SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME. I must now amend that opinion to say the there are three best SPIDER-MAN movies, and SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY is one of the three.
It’s pretty good. I would have trimmed it here and there, but I thoroughly enjoyed it and is an excellent Spider-Man story that totally captures the essence of the character with a good story.
It takes place four years after the events of NO WAY HOME erased everyone’s memory that Peter Parker was Spider-Man. Peter has now been crime-fighting full time, but it is taking a severe toll on his emotions and personal life that he is deliberately ignoring. Meanwhile, Spider-Man has become the beloved crimefighter of New York, trusted by both the NYPD and the federal Department of Damage Control, which is a recurring frenemy for superheroes from other movies.
When someone launches an attack on the headquarters of Damage Control, the director recruits Peter to fight their new enemy – a mysterious figure who can use telepathy to possess people from a distance. Peter is the only one who can sense it, thanks to his spider sense, and he’s also the only one able to resist the telepath’s possession abilities.
But despite his resistance to possession, fighting a telepath is a dangerous proposition for someone with as many emotional issues as Peter, and things start to spiral out of control when the telepath starts digging into his life. But there’s another lesson Peter has to learn – people who take the federal government at its word tend to regret it. 🙂 For the matter, ignoring his emotional issues is causing Peter’s spider powers to start acting in strange ways.
But, of course, in the end Spiderman always follows his conscience, no matter the cost to him personally.
Definitely an enjoyable movie. All the scenes with Spder-Man and Punisher were great, and they had a great dynamic. A few other Marvel Cinematic Universe people show up, but this is probably one of the most stand-alone movies the MCU has done in a while. Of course, the risk of MCU Continuity Lockout is always there, which is one of the reasons I started writing HALF-ELVEN THIEF.
Overall grade: A
CONCLUSION
So it was a pretty good summer for movies, I have to say.
It’s also a valuable lesson in not taking The Internet too seriously, which too many people do nowadays. There were all these detailed analyses on X, Threads, and Reddit explaining why THE ODYSSEY was going to fail for whatever reason, and instead it blew past $1.5 billion dollars.
-JM