A summer with strikes in the rearview and Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” poised to keep kicking ass at the box office and sticking in IMAX theaters? We’re here for it.

Starting this month, the summer movie season is upon us, with indies and blockbusters and some freshly burnished I.P. rolling out in theaters and on streamers. Plus, the Cannes Film Festival kicks off May 13, so we’re about to get some much-welcome vigor restored in the moviegoing conversation. But people vote with their dollars — and, these days, their Letterboxd accounts — not their mouths, after all.

So which summer movies are likely to hit big?

While IndieWire always roots for originals, there are, of course, some familiar properties coming back to theaters this summer to guarantee cash flow. This is Hollywood after all, where rinse-and-repeat is hopefully less rote with (we hope) invigorating updates on titles and characters we...