Is this the summer that America goes nuts for Cillian Murphy or rediscovers its love for Michael Keaton’s Batman? Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures It’s hard to imagine the last time a summer movie season didn’t have unusually high stakes. After two COVID-ravaged summers where American multiplexes were first closed and then struggling to draw audiences back to the theater, summer 2022 rebounded on the back of Pete Maverick’s screaming fighter jet. Now, with the writers’ strike in full swing, behind-the-screen anxieties are rearing once again, casting doubt on cinema’s long-term...