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Summer Movies 2023: Here’s What’s Coming to Theaters and Streaming
Barbie springs to life, Indy swings into action and Spidey slings new webs. Here are 107 films for movie lovers of all tastes.
Published May 24, 2023Updated May 25, 2023
Here is a list of noteworthy movies heading to theaters and living rooms this summer — everything from blockbusters to small indies from the festival circuit. Release dates and platforms are subject to change.
May
REALITY Tina Satter wrote and directed this screen adaptation of her play “Is This a Room,” derived from the transcript of the F.B.I.’s interrogation of Reality L. Winner, the National Security Agency contractor who was sentenced for leaking classified information. Sydney Sweeney stars as Winner. (May 29 on Max)
June
AFTER SHERMAN The filmmaker Jon-Sesrie Goff documents the experiences of his father, the Rev. Dr. Norvel Goff Sr., who became the interim pastor at Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, S.C., after Dylann Roof killed nine people there in 2015. The documentary reflects on the role of faith for Black Americans. (June 2 in theaters)
THE BOOGEYMAN A Stephen King short story from the 1970s becomes a feature film. Sophie Thatcher plays a teenager fending off an entity that feeds on her sorrow over her mother’s death. Rob Savage directed. (June 2 in theaters)
FALCON LAKE The actress Charlotte Le Bon (Robert Zemeckis’s “The Walk”) makes her directorial debut with this story of a boy and the girl he’s drawn to while on vacation by a lake that might be haunted. (June 2 in theaters)
LYNCH/OZ David Lynch fans well know his love for “The Wizard of Oz,” which seeps into his work in ways both overt (Sheryl Lee’s appearance as the Good Witch in “Wild at Heart”) and fascinatingly subtextual (the cast rearrangement in “Mulholland Drive”). Alexandre O. Philippe, a specialist in documentaries about movies (“78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene”), charts the connections. (June 2 in theaters)
PADRE PIO Shia LaBeouf plays the title character, a Capuchin friar who was canonized in 2002, and whose followers believe that in 1918 he bore the stigmata, wounds corresponding to those of Christ. Cristina Chiriac and Asia Argento also star. Abel Ferrara directed. (June 2 in theaters and on demand)
PAST LIVES Celine Song wrote and directed this near-universal critical favorite from Sundance. Greta Lee and Teo Yoo play two people who, although close friends as children in South Korea, came of age separately after one emigrated to Canada. The film, which makes multiple leaps in time, follows their interactions over the years as they ponder the romance that might have been but wasn’t. John Magaro also stars. (June 2 in theaters)
SHOOTING STARS Marquis “Mookie” Cook plays LeBron James in his high school years, in a movie based on the book James wrote with Buzz Bissinger (“Friday Night Lights”). (June 2 on Peacock)
SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE Reboots and multiverses make it difficult to keep track of all the Spider-Men — but when multiverses are involved, that tends to be the point. Shameik Moore returns as the voice of Miles Morales in this sequel to the 2018 animated film “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.” Kemp Powers (“Soul”) directs alongside Joaquim Dos Santos and Justin K. Thompson. (June 2 in theaters)
HOLLYWOOD DREAMS & NIGHTMARES: THE ROBERT ENGLUND STORY Would you recognize Englund if you saw him without Freddy Krueger’s charred face and blade-fingers? (OK, if you saw the 1994 “Wes Craven’s New Nightmare,” in which Englund also appeared as himself, you probably would.) The actor reflects on a career of playing more than just the murderous dream-invader. (June 6 on Screambox and other digital platforms )
SQUARING THE CIRCLE (THE STORY OF HIPGNOSIS) No stranger to album covers, the photographer and filmmaker Anton Corbijn (the Ian Curtis biopic “Control”) directed this documentary about the British design firm responsible for some of the most famous record packaging ever devised. (June 7 in theaters)
THE ANGRY BLACK GIRL AND HER MONSTER When her brother is killed, a teenage scientist sets out to revivify him, “Frankenstein”-style. Laya DeLeon Hayes and Denzel Whitaker star. Bomani J. Story wrote and directed. (June 9 in theaters and on demand)
BLUE JEAN A gym teacher (Rosy McEwen) has to lead her romantic life on the sly against the backdrop of homophobic policies in Margaret Thatcher’s Britain. Georgia Oakley directed. (June 9 in theaters)
DALÍLAND In the 1970s, a young man (Christopher Briney) gets a chance to tag along with the Surrealist genius and his upturned mustache, both of which are embodied by Ben Kingsley. Barbara Sukowa plays Dalí’s wife. Mary Harron directed. (June 9 in theaters and on demand)
THE DOC The rapper and lyricist Tracy Curry, a.k.a. The D.O.C., is profiled in a film that includes interviews with Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg and Ice Cube. (June 9 in theaters)
FLAMIN’ HOT Eva Longoria directed this film about Richard Montañez (Jesse Garcia), who claimed he created Cheetos Crunchy Flamin’ Hots. (June 9 on Disney+ and Hulu)
MENDING THE LINE A returning veteran reacclimates to civilian life with assistance from a fly fisherman and a librarian. Brian Cox, Sinqua Walls and Wes Studi star. (June 9 in theaters)
PERSIAN LESSONS Vadim Perelman (“House of Sand and Fog”) directed this World War II drama about a Belgian Jew (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart) who pretends to be Persian to escape execution, but then is assigned to teach the language to a German (Lars Eidinger). (June 9 in theaters)
SCARLET Pietro Marcello, whose “Martin Eden” was selected by Manohla Dargis as the best film of 2020, directed this fractured fairy tale about a returning World War I veteran and his daughter. Raphaël Thiéry and Juliette Jouan star. (June 9 in theaters)
TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTS What is the appropriate taxonomy for giant robots? The Maximals, who join the series, belong to a genus (or phylum, or order) that makes them look like they share an evolutionary link with King Kong or the apes of “Planet of the Apes.” Anthony Ramos and Dominique Fishback supply the human presence. Steven Caple Jr. (“Creed II”) directed. (June 9 in theaters)
ASTEROID CITY Wes Anderson ventures into the milieu of 1950s sci-fi: His latest film is set in a desert town during a convention of “junior stargazers and space cadets.” The cast is ridiculously starry and too long to list, but it includes Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Jeffrey Wright and — making his first appearance in the Anderson cosmos — Tom Hanks. (June 16 in theaters)
THE BLACKENING A group of friends gather on Juneteenth at a cabin in the woods, where a villain who appears to be a graduate of the Jigsaw School of Torture forces them to play a racist board game with fatal stakes. Tim Story directed this horror spoof. Antoinette Robertson, Dewayne Perkins and Sinqua Walls star. (June 16 in theaters)
ELEMENTAL Pixar’s latest creation is set in Element City, whose animated residents are each composed of one of four principal elements: water, fire, air or earth. Then a fire gal (voiced by Leah Lewis) meets a water dude (Mamoudou Athie). Peter Sohn (“The Good Dinosaur”) directed. (June 16 in theaters)
EXTRACTION 2 There was a time, in the 1980s or ’90s, when someone would have put a bit more effort into that title. Just imagine: “Another Extraction.” “Re-Extracted.” “Extraction 2: Extrusion.” “After barely surviving the events of the first movie,” per the official synopsis, the Australian mercenary Tyler Rake (Chris Hemsworth) takes a crack at another rescue. Sam Hargrave directed from a screenplay by Joe Russo. (June 16 on Netflix)
THE FLASH “I completely broke the universe,” Barry Allen (Ezra Miller) says in the trailer for the latest DC movie entry. Let’s not catastrophize. There are salient questions surrounding this film. Will Miller’s legal troubles dampen fans’ enthusiasm? Will Michael Keaton, returning here as Batman more than 30 years after returning in “Batman Returns,” still fit into his bat suit? (June 16 in theaters)
FREEDOM’S PATH During the Civil War, a Union soldier is taken in by a member of the underground railroad. RJ Cyler, Gerran Howell and Ewen Bremner star. (June 16 in theaters and on demand)
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