The 2025 summer film season officially ended, and its box office numbers were, as we all probably know, notorious low. The summer film season lasts from early May to Labor Day, and is usually when a larger study makes most of their income for the year. According to the Hollywood reporterIn 2023, the summer film season made a healthy $ 4.09 billion. Next year, however, dip, however, earns only $ 3.67 billion. 2025, despite all the main fights, remake and usually reliable genres, only will barely respond to 2024.

Namely, superhero films are no longer as huge as they once were. Three main superhero blockbusters came out this summer - "Thunderbolts*", "Superman" and "The Fantastic Four: First Steps" - and while all made money, none of them missed $ 700 million. This is the first time this has happened since 2011. Globally, the world's largest earnings were mostly children's films. "Not Haa 2", the highest animated film of all timeIt lights up the box office in China, while the remuneration of Lilo and Stitch and "How to Train Your Dragon" made piles. "Minecraft" has made nearly a billion around the world and, perhaps predictably, "Jurassic World: Rebirth" imposed the franchise forward.

What this summer season has no income, however, made up critical recognition. Entrepreneuries freelance analysts at Reddit's box office They collected the summer editions of the year that made over $ 10 million at home. These are 30 titles. The analyst measures their income, as well as their ranked tomato approval grades. It seems that about two -thirds of those surveyed achieved the rare "fresh" rating of RT, ie 60% or more critics gave him a positive review. It's a great performance. Only five were considered to be broken.

The best in the summer films were not the biggest blockbusters, but an unexpected horror fell asleep. The most pleasant surprise was the success of Zack Kreger's eerie film, "Weapons", which cost only $ 38 million to earn and make over $ 232 million worldwide. That film was overly considered by critics, eventually earning a 94% approval of rotten tomatoes. "Final Destination: Bloody Lines", the sixth film in the Franchise Every always-DC, has a 92%approval, while the Horror/Romance Movie has scored 90%. Challenging horror films such as "Go Back", "28 Years Later", and "Friendship" also achieved in the 80 percent high.

Superhero films have been falling into the popular estimate for some time, but they are advancing well with critics. "Thunder*", "" Which /movie is BJ CollangeloReached an approval of 88%, while "Fantastic Four: First Steps", What I wantedcomes to 87%. The new version of Jameseshes Gun Superman has still achieved a respectable 83%approval. The future of superhero film universes may look gloomy, but films seem to be improving.

As mentioned, only five of the 30 largest summer editions on the Redit list were considered spoiled by RT critics. Although a huge hit, "Jurassic World: Rebirth" liked only 51% of critics. Extended and remake such as "Karate Kid: Legends", "M3Gan 2.0" and "I know what you did last summer" also did badly, scoring 58%, 58%and 36%, respectively. The Smurfs were the biggest critical loser of the summer, getting an approval of only 21% of critics. However, it still made over $ 31 million.

As every critic can tell you, the financial success of the film is completely unrelated to its quality. Bad films make millions all the time, and great movies are regularly ignored. So, Grimm's reports of box office numbers in 2025 are not the real bell for success in the year. Critically, this summer was one of the most successful in recent memory.