Summer movie season is in full swing. Here’s what’s coming through Labor Day
The summer movie season goes into high-gear in July, with the arrival of the seventh “Mission: Impossible” movie followed by the “Oppenheimer” and “Barbie” showdown on July 21.
Not that you have to choose one or the other — as Tom Cruise said on Twitter, “I love a double feature, and it doesn’t get more explosive (or more pink) than the one with Oppenheimer and Barbie.”
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August also promises a new take on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and introduces a new DC superhero, Blue Beetle.
Here’s a month-by-month guide of this summer’s new movies. Keep scrolling for more info and review links for May and June’s releases.
July 7
Insidious: The Red Door
(Sony, theaters): Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne are back to scare everyone in the fifth edition.
Joy Ride
(Lionsgate, theaters): Adele Lim directs this raucous comedy about a friends trip to China to find someone’s birth mother, starring Ashley Park, Stephanie Hsu, Sherry Cola and Sabrina Wu.
The Lesson (Bleecker Street, theaters): A young novelist helps an acclaimed author in this thriller with Richard E. Grant.
Biosphere
(IFC, theaters and VOD): Mark Duplass and Sterling K. Brown are the last two men on Earth.
Earth Mama
(A24, theaters): This acclaimed debut from Savannah Leaf focuses on a woman, single and pregnant with two kids in foster care, trying to reclaim her family in the Bay Area.
July 14
Mission: Impossible-Dead Reckoning Part I (Paramount, theaters, on July 12): Tom Cruise? Death-defying stunts in Venice? The return of Kittridge? What more do you need?
Theater Camp (Searchlight, theaters): Musical theater nerds (and comedy fans) will delight in this loving satire of a childhood institution, with Ben Platt and Molly Gordon.
The Miracle Club (Sony Pictures Classics, theaters): Lifetime friends (Kathy Bates, Maggie Smith, Agnes O’Casey) in a small Dublin community in 1967 dream of a trip to Lourdes, a town in France where miracles are supposed to happen. Laura Linney co-stars.
They Cloned Tyrone
(Netflix): John Boyega, Teyonah Parris and Jamie Foxx lead this mystery caper.
July 21
Oppenheimer (Universal, theaters): Christopher Nolan takes audiences into the mind of the “father of the atomic bomb,” J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) as he and his peers build up to the trinity test at Los Alamos.
Barbie
(Warner Bros., theaters): Margot Robbie plays the world’s most famous doll (as do many others) opposite Ryan Gosling’s Ken in Greta Gerwig’s comedic look at their perfect world.
Stephen Curry: Underrated
(Apple TV+): Peter Nicks directs a documentary about the four-time NBA champion.
The Beanie Bubble (in select theaters; on Apple TV+ on July 28): Zach Galifianakis stars as the man behind Beanie Babies in this comedic drama, co-starring Elizabeth Banks, Sarah Snook and Geraldine Viswanathan.
July 28
Haunted Mansion (Disney, theaters): A Disney ride comes to life in with the help of Rosario Dawson, Tiffany Haddish, Owen Wilson and Danny DeVito.
Talk to Me
(A24, theaters): A group of friends conjure spirits in this horror starring Sophie Wilde and Joe Bird.
