2018: Summer Blockbuster Appraisal

Thanos clicked with Marvel fans; The Rock eventually crumbled; big monsters ate rivals; superheroes flew higher; Star Wars’s box office was ‘so low’; the impossible Tom Cruise proved unmissable, and never underestimate an Abba sing-a-long…

Dan Owen
Dan Owen
Aug 31, 2018 · 11 min read

Avengers: Infinity War

Deadpool 2

Solo: A Star Wars Story

Ocean’s 8

Hereditary

Incredibles 2

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

Sicario 2: Soldado

Ant-Man and the Wasp

Mission: Impossible — Fallout

The First Purge

Skyscraper

The Meg

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

The Happytime Murders

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Dan Owen

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Dan Owen

Freelance writer, addicted to film, raised by TV • Twitter @danowen79. E-mail: editor@framerated.co.uk for work stuff.

Frame Rated

‘Your Entertainment, Our Reviews’. A publication focused on Film & Television reviews, features, essays, retrospectives, and think-pieces.

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