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Maybe Peter Parker doesn't want to be next generation of hero. Maybe he just wants to go on his high school class trip to Europe and tell the cute nerdy girl he likes her.

This time around, director Jon Watts creates a mash-up between a summer-vacation comedy a rom-com for teens and a by-the-book superhero adventure, and the result is... middling.

This broad-reaching document of the AIDS crisis works best when it focuses on the intimate stories of San Francisco General Hospital's Ward 5B.

Pfffft. With Dark Phoenix, the X-Men saga as movie audiences have come to know it closes out with a disappointing whimper instead of any kind of grand last hurrah.

This perfectly adequate sequel to 2016’s The Secret Life of Pets isn’t amazing but isn’t all that bad, either. It amplifies some of the best components of the first film – namely, the adorable animal behaviors of cats and dogs (and birds and rabbits and the like) that will no doubt make pet owners in the audience laugh out loud (like I did) – but suffers a bit from a scattered story that sends its furry heroes off in different directions.

Rocketman is certainly chock full of sing-along-able hits, but the film never matches the emotion and potential of its early scenes.