The Shallows

Okay, so it was one of the worst summer movie seasons in recent memory. Trying to find the good blockbusters amongst the last four months releases sometimes felt like trying to find a needle in a stack of s---. But even this year there were diamonds in the rough. Today we’re celebrating the ten best, the summer movies of 2016 that didn’t make us weep for the future of cinema — and note that this list is just movies that got wide releases in at least 500 theaters. We’ll have a separate piece on under-the-radar summer films you might have missed next week on ScreenCrush. In the meantime, let’s celebrate the highlights from a depressing summer before we clear the decks and get ready for the fall.

I am an avid lover of Blake Lively: the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series, Gossip Girl, you name it, I've seen it. Once, at a party where I did not know anyone, I introduced myself as Serena van der Woodsen and my friend Amanda said she was Blair Waldorf just to see if anyone else would recognize the names (both are main character's in Gossip Girl...