The phrase "modern blockbuster" refers to big-budget movies that are extremely popular and widely watched by a large audience. These movies often have thrilling action, special effects, and are released by major studios. Full definition
These bonus moments have become a mainstay of modern blockbuster. (lwlies.com)
And if they had, how could a big budget modern blockbuster make such a premise the least bit cinematic? (moviehole.net)
Alien: Covenant echoes Jurassic Park, The Evil Dead, and a movie Scott didn't make, James Cameron's Aliens, but the science fiction fueling its engines, and the science fate that steers the ending, amounts to a sadistic «fuck you» to humanity that's basically unheard of in modern blockbusters. (thrillist.com)