There is something for everyone at the , both in theatres and streaming at home. In May, audiences can bid farewell to the Guardians of the Galaxy, go to Italy with Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Mary Steenburgen and Candice Bergen, or under the sea with Halle Bailey and Melissa McCarthy.
June brings 鈥淚ndiana Jones 5,鈥 a 鈥淪pider-Verse鈥 sequel, a new Pixar pic and one film many have already called the best of the year (鈥淧ast Lives鈥).
And things get really exciting in July with the highly anticipated debuts of 鈥淥ppenheimer,鈥 鈥淢ission: Impossible 7,鈥 鈥淏arbie,鈥 while August promises a new take on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and introduces a new DC superhero, Blue Beetle.
Here鈥檚 a month-by-month guide of this summer鈥檚 new movies.
May 5
鈥 鈥 (Disney/Marvel, theaters): Nine years after the non-comic obsessed world was introduced to Peter Quill, Rocket, Groot and the rest of the Guardians of the Galaxy, the misfits are closing out the trilogy and saying goodbye to director James Gunn, who is now leading rival DC.
鈥 鈥 (Shout! Studios, theaters): Lily James plays a documentary filmmaker whose next project follows her neighbour (Shazad Latif) on his road to an arranged marriage in this charming romantic comedy.
May 12
鈥 鈥 (Focus Features, theaters): Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen travel to Italy to celebrate an engagement.
鈥 ,鈥 (Netflix, streaming): Jennifer Lopez is an assassin and a mother in this action pic timed to Mother鈥檚 Day.
鈥 鈥 (Sony, theatres): Priyanka Chopra Jonas plays a woman mourning the death of her boyfriend who texts his old number not knowing it belongs to someone new (Sam Heughan). Celine Dion (and her music) co-star in this romantic drama.
鈥 鈥 (AppleTV+): Davis Guggenheim helps Michael J. Fox tell his story, from his rise in Hollywood to his Parkinson鈥檚 diagnosis and beyond.
鈥 鈥 (IFC, theatres): A transgender woman, estranged from her family, goes home to visit her dying mother in this film starring Tracee Lysette and Patricia Clarkson.
鈥 鈥 (Bleecker Street, theatres): Eliza Scanlen plays a 17-year-old girl living in a fundamentalist Christian community in Kentucky whose life changes with the arrival of Lewis Pullman鈥檚 charismatic youth pastor.
鈥 鈥 (Roadside Attractions, theatres): Charlie Day writes, directs and plays dual roles in this comedic Hollywood satire.
鈥 鈥 (Ketchup Entertainment): Ben Affleck plays a detective whose daughter goes missing in this Robert Rodriguez movie.
鈥淚t Ain鈥檛 Over鈥 (Sony Pictures Classics): A documentary about Lawrence Peter 鈥榊ogi鈥 Berra.
鈥淏lackberry鈥 (IFC): Cary Elwes stars in this movie about the rise of the Blackberry.
May 19
鈥 鈥 (Universal, theaters): In the tenth installment of the Fast franchise, Jason Momoa joins as the vengeful son of a slain drug lord intent to take out Vin Diesel鈥檚 Dom.
鈥 鈥 (20th Century Studios, streaming on Hulu): Sinqua Walls and Jack Harlow co-star in this remake of the 1992 film, co-written by Kenya Barris and featuring the late Lance Reddick.
鈥 鈥 (Magnolia, theatres): Joel Edgerton is a horticulturist in this Paul Schrader drama, co-starring Sigourney Weaver as a wealthy dowager.
鈥 鈥 (Neon, theatres): A dark comedy about a dominatrix (Margaret Qualley) and her wealth client (Christopher Abbott).
May 26
鈥 鈥 (Disney, theatres): Halle Bailey plays Ariel in this technically ambitious live-action remake of a recent Disney classic directed by Rob Marshall (鈥淐hicago鈥) and co-starring Melissa McCarthy as Ursula.
鈥 鈥 (A24, theatres): Nicole Holofcener takes a nuanced and funny look at a white lie that unsettles the marriage between a New York City writer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and a therapist (Tobias Menzies).
鈥 鈥 (Lionsgate, theatres): Stand-up comic Sebastian Maniscalco co-wrote this culture clash movie in which he takes his Italian-American father (Robert De Niro) on a vacation with his wife鈥檚 WASPy family.
鈥 鈥 (Netflix, on May 23): This documentary explores how law enforcement sometimes indicts victims of sexual assault instead of helping.
鈥 ,鈥 (Sony, theatres): Stand-up comedian Bert Kreischer brings Mark Hamill into the fray for this action-comedy.
鈥 鈥 (Open Road Films, theatres): Gerard Butler plays an undercover CIA operative in hostile territory in Afghanistan.
June 2
鈥 鈥 (Sony, theatres): Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) is back, but with things not going so well in Brooklyn, he opts to visit the multiverse with his old pal Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfeld), where he encounters the Spider-Society.
鈥 鈥 (20th Century Studios, theatres): 鈥淚t鈥檚 the thing that comes for your kids when you鈥檙e not paying attention,鈥 David Dastmalchian explains to Chris Messina in this Stephen King adaptation.
鈥 鈥 (A24, theatres): Already being hailed as one of the best of the year after its Sundance debut, Celine Song鈥檚 directorial debut is a decades and continent-spanning romance about two friends separated in childhood who meet 20 years later in New York.
June 9
鈥 鈥 (Paramount, theatres): Steven Caple Jr directs the seventh Transformers movie, starring Anthony Ramos and Dominique Fishback.
鈥 鈥 (Universal, theatres): Will Ferrell and Jamie Foxx voice dogs in this not-animated, R-rated comedy.
鈥 鈥 (Magnolia, theatres): It鈥檚 1988 in England and hostilities are mounting towards the LGBTQ community in Georgia Oakley鈥檚 BAFTA-nominated directorial debut about a gym teacher (Rosy McEwan) and the arrival of a new student.
鈥淒aliland鈥 (Magnolia, theatres): Mary Harron directs Ben Kingsley as Salvador Dal铆.
June 16
鈥 鈥 (Warner Bros., theatres): Batmans past Ben Affleck and Michael Keaton assemble for this standalone Flash movie directed by Andy Muschietti and starring Ezra Miller as the titular superhero.
鈥 鈥 (Pixar, theatrical): In Element City, residents include Air, Earth, Water and Fire in the new Pixar original, featuring the voices of Leah Lewis, Mamoudou Athie and Catherine O鈥橦ara.
鈥 鈥 (Netflix, streaming): Chris Hemsworth鈥檚 mercenary Tyler Rake is back for another dangerous mission.
鈥 鈥 (Focus Features, limited and expanding June 23): Wes Anderson assembles Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson, Jason Schwartzman and Jeffrey Wright for a stargazer convention in the mid-century American desert.
鈥 鈥 (Lionsgate, theatres): This scary movie satire sends a group of Black friends including Grace Byers, Jermaine Fowler, Melvin Gregg and X Mayo to a cabin in the woods.
June 23
鈥 鈥 (Sony, theatres): Jennifer Lawrence leads a raunchy comedy about a woman hired by a shy teen鈥檚 parents to help him get out of his shell before Princeton.
June 30
鈥 鈥 (Lucasfilm, theatres): Harrison Ford puts his iconic fedora back on for a fifth outing as Indy in this new adventure directed by James Mangold and co-starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
鈥淓very Body鈥 (Focus Features, theatres): Oscar-nominated documentarian Julie Cohen turns her lens on three intersex individuals in her latest film.
鈥 鈥 (Universal, theatres): Lana Condor (鈥淭o All the Boys I鈥檝e Loved Before鈥) lends her voice to this animated action-comedy about a shy teenager trying to survive high school as a part-Kraken.
鈥淗arold and the Purple Crayon鈥 (Sony, theatres): Zachary Levi, Zooey Deschanel and Lil Rel Howery help bring this adaptation of the children鈥檚 bedtime story to life.
July 7
鈥 鈥 (Sony, theatres): Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne are back to scare everyone in the fifth edition.
鈥 鈥 (Lionsgate, theatres): Adele Lim directs this raucous comedy about a girls trip to China to find someone鈥檚 birth mother, starring Ashley Park, Stephanie Hsu, Sherry Cola and Sabrina Wu.
鈥淭he Lesson鈥 (Bleecker Street): A young novelist helps an acclaimed author in this thriller with Richard E. Grant.
鈥 鈥 (IFC): Mark Duplass and Sterling K. Brown are the last two men on Earth.
July 14
鈥 (Paramount, theatres, on July 12): Tom Cruise? Death-defying stunts in Venice? The return of Kittridge? What more do you need?
鈥淭heater Camp鈥(Searchlight, theaters): Musical theater nerds (and comedy fans) will delight in this loving satire of a childhood institution, with Ben Platt and Molly Gordon.
July 21
鈥 鈥 (Universal, theatres): Christopher Nolan takes audiences into the mind of the 鈥渇ather of the atomic bomb,鈥 J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) as he and his peers build up to the trinity test at Los Alamos.
鈥 鈥 (Warner Bros., theatres): Margot Robbie plays the world鈥檚 most famous doll (as do many others) opposite Ryan Gosling鈥檚 Ken in Greta Gerwig鈥檚 comedic look at their perfect world.
鈥淪tephen Curry: Underrated鈥 (Apple TV+): Peter Nicks directs a documentary about the four-time NBA champion.
鈥 鈥 (Netflix): John Boyega, Teyonah Parris and Jamie Foxx lead this mystery caper.
July 28
鈥 鈥 (Disney, theatres): A Disney ride comes to life in with the help of Rosario Dawson, Tiffany Haddish, Owen Wilson and Danny DeVito.
鈥 鈥 (A24, theatres): A group of friends conjure spirits in this horror starring Sophie Wilde and Joe Bird.
鈥淗appiness for Beginners鈥 (Netflix, on July 27): Ellie Kemper is a newly divorced woman looking to shake things up.
鈥淪ympathy for the Devil鈥 (IFC): Joel Kinnaman is forced to drive a mysterious gunman (Nicolas Cage) in this thriller.
鈥淜okomo City鈥 (Magnolia): This documentary follows four Black transgender sex workers.
August 4
鈥 鈥 (Paramount, theatres): This animated movie puts the teenage back in the equation with a very funny voice cast including Seth Rogen and John Cena as Bebop and Rocksteady.
鈥淢eg 2: The Trench鈥 (Warner Bros., theatres): Jason Statham is back fighting sharks.
鈥 鈥 (Mubi): The relationship of a longtime couple (Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw) is thrown when one begins an affair with a woman (Ad猫le Exarchopoulos).
鈥 鈥 (Magnolia): Steve James鈥 documentary about the youngest physicist on the Manhattan Project who fed information to the Soviets.
鈥淒reamin鈥 Wild鈥 (Roadside Attractions): Casey Affleck stars in this film about musical duo Donnie and Joe Emerson.
August 11
鈥 鈥 (Sony, theatres): A gamer gets a chance to drive a professional course in this video game adaptation starring David Harbour and Orlando Bloom.
鈥淭he Last Voyage of the Demeter鈥 (Universal, theatres): This supernatural horror film draws from a chapter of 鈥淒racula.鈥
鈥 鈥 (Netflix): Gal Gadot played an intelligence operative in this action thriller, with Jamie Dornan.
鈥淭he Eternal Memory鈥 (MTV Documentary Films): This documentary explores a marriage and Alzheimer鈥檚 disease.
August 18
鈥 鈥 (Warner Bros., theatres): Xolo Maridue帽a plays the DC superhero Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle in this origin story.
鈥淧lease Don鈥檛 Destroy鈥 (Universal, theatres): The 鈥淪NL鈥 trio Ben Marshall, John Higgins, and Martin Herlihy expand their popular sketch for the big screen.
鈥渂irth/rebirth鈥 (IFC, theatres): A woman and a morgue technician bring a little girl back to life in this horror.
鈥 鈥 (Lionsgate, theatres): Helen Mirren tells her grandson, expelled from school for bullying, a story about herself in Nazi-occupied France.
鈥淟andscape with Invisible Hand鈥 (MGM, theatres): Teens come up with a unique moneymaking scheme in a world taken over by aliens.
鈥淭he Hill鈥 (Briarcliff Entertainment): This baseball drama starring Dennis Quaid is based on the true story of Rickey Hill.
August 25
鈥淭hey Listen鈥 (Sony, theatres): John Cho and Katherine Waterston lead this secretive Blumhouse horror.
鈥淕olda鈥 (Bleecker Street): Helen Mirren stars in this drama about Golda Meir, the Prime Minister of Israel during the Yom Kippur War.
鈥淭he Dive鈥 (IFC, theatres): In this suspense pic about two sisters out for a dive, one gets hurt and is trapped underwater.
September 1
鈥 鈥 (Sony, theatres): Denzel Washington is back as Robert McCall, who is supposed to be retired from the assassin business but things get complicated in Southern Italy.
鈥擳he Associated Press