The stakes are always high in the summer movie season. On that fateful Friday, cinephiles will be faced with a difficult choice: Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” or Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie”? The summer movie season always begins before actual summer. “But I’ve never had a movie release like that. Big budget spectacles like “Fast X,” the penultimate movie in the $6 billion franchise led by Vin Diesel, are more typical summer fare.

Source: The Nation April 28, 2023 07:14 UTC