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Summer 2024 brings some fun and exciting new movies to watch and as director Francois Truffaut once said, “It’s a beautiful day – let’s see a movie!” Stay tuned for the new batch of movies for the sunny season and when they’ll hit theaters and platforms for streaming with the AARP Critics Guide.
Here’s your guide to 16 movies hitting theaters and streaming platforms this summer!
The Garfield Movie (May 24, in theaters)
Lasagna-eating indoor cat Garfield (Chris Pratt) is embroiled in a heist with his long-lost street cat father Vic (Samuel L. Jackson) in an animated comedy that also stars the voices of SNL’s Cecily Strong and Bowen Yang, Ving Rhames and Snoop Dogg (as Snoop Cat).
Ezra (May 31, in theaters)
While his agent (Whoopi Goldberg) tries to keep his failing career afloat, a stand-up comedian (Bobby Cannavale) moves in with his father (Robert De Niro), who thinks he’s a loser. But he will fight for his autistic son Ezra (William A. Fitzgerald), who is reading New York Times from the age of 5, but was kicked out of school for impulsive outbursts. Screenwriter Tony Spiridakis, who has raised a neurodivergent son, writes from experience.
Bad Boys: Ride or Die (June 7, in theaters)
What are you going to do when prankster Miami detectives Mike Lowery and Marcus Burnett (Will Smith and Martin Lawrence) come for you in their fourth pedal-to-the-metal action? You’ll likely help push the 29-year-old film franchise’s ticket sales past the billion-dollar mark. This time, they’re off to burn cars, escape falling helicopters, fight over Skittles, and clear their old police chief’s name (The Sopranos Joe Pantoliano) — and their own.
Hit Man (June 7, on Netflix)
Glenn Powell (Top Gun: Maverick) wrote and starred in the latest film from Richard Linklater, a film somewhat inspired by Gary Johnson, a nerdy professor who actually works as a fake killer to help the Houston police catch over 60 would-be murderers. When a woman asked him to kill her abuser, he put her in a shelter instead. Powell’s Gary falls in love with such a woman (Adria Arjona) and trouble ensues. It’s an amazing comedy, rom-com, thriller, and Linklater’s biggest critical hit in nearly a decade. Some call it his funniest film.
Inside Out 2 (June 14, in theaters)
In the sequel to the smart animated hit with heart and wisdom, Riley (Kensington Tallman) deals with her parents (Kyle MacLachlan and Diane Lane) and the emotions in her newly-teenage head: Amy Poehler as Joy; Louis Black as Anger (of course); Tony Hale as Fear; and June Squibb in Nostalgia.
Thelma (June 21, in theaters)
After 70 years in the industry, Nebraska Oscar nominee June Squibb gets her first starring role at age 94, in an action film about a grandmother who falls prey to a phone scammer (Fred Hechinger of The White Man). She teams up with a friend (Shaft’s Richard Roundtree) to reclaim what’s hers. Parker Posey and Malcolm McDowell star – with Squibb doing most of his own stunts.
The Bikeriders (June 21, in theaters)
In a film clearly inspired by Good boysa pretty girl (Killing Eve’s Jodie Comer) quickly turns nasty when she falls in love with a sensitive, muscular biker (Elvis’ Austin Butler) who is a member of the Vandals, a violent Chicago gang whose leader (Max Mad: Fury Road’s Tom Hardy) is obsessed with Marlon Brando The wild one. It’s a violent story meant to evoke the 1960s, and the soundtrack – Cream, the Animals, Shangri-Las – will take you back.
Horizon: An American Saga (Part 1 June 28, Part 2 August 16, in theaters)
Kevin Costner spent 36 years and mortgaged his home to direct his dream: a four-film saga about how the American West was won and what it cost Native Americans and others. The cast includes Costner, Will Patton (Yellowstone), Tatanka means (Killers of the Flower Moon), Giovanni Ribisi (Saving Private Ryan), Sienna Miller (American Sniper), Luke Wilson (Legally blonde), Thomas Hayden Church (Aside) and more than 160 others with speaking roles.
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (July 3, on Netflix)
Three decades after Eddie Murphy rose to stardom as Detroit cop Axel Foley, Axel returns to LA to solve a crime with his colleague Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) and Jeffrey Friedman (Paul Reiser). Will the outrageously semi-intelligible accent of their familiar gallerist/arms dealer Serge (Bronson Pinchot) be the funniest part of the film, as it was in 1984?
Damned 4 (July 3, in theaters)
The most popular animated franchise in history continues as Gru (Steve Carell) and his wife Lucy (Kristen Wiig) face off against supervillain prison escapee Maxime Le Mal (Will Farrell) and his femme fatale Valentina (Sofia Vergara).
Twisters (July 19, in theaters)
Both the tornado-fighting techniques and the special effects have come a long way since 1996’s half-billion-dollar action hit. twister, so expect things you’ve never seen before – and none from the first movie. It stars Glenn Powell as a risk-taking, storm-chasing, self-promoting social media star and Daisy Edgard-Jones (Where the Crawdads Sing) as a tornado-traumatized, recovering twister chaser in peril once more in Oklahoma’s Tornado Alley.
Find Me Falling (July 19, on Netflix)
An aging, failing rock star (not-at-all-failing singer/actor Harry Connick Jr.) escapes to a remote clifftop home on the spectacular island of Cyprus, where he rekindles an old flame (Agni Scott) and is forced to choose what he loves most: music or women you are
The Fabulous Four (July 25, in theaters)
Three lifelong friends (Susan Sarandon, Sheryl Lee Ralph and Megan Mullally) visit Key West to be bridesmaids at their college friend’s (Bette Midler) surprise wedding.
Deadpool & Wolverine (July 26, in theaters)
What could be better than the return of Ryan Reynolds as the wisecracking superhero Deadpool? Deadpool teams up with Clipper Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), with Emma Corinne (Diana in The crown) as the villain Cassandra Nova and Inheritance Matthew Macfadyen as Mr. Paradox, a friend of the titular characters. Marvel movies have been in a terrible slump, but this one has hit written all over it.
Borderlands (Aug. 9, in theaters)
This sci-fi action comedy adapted from a popular video game and very similar the guardians of the galaxyputs the fate of the universe in the seemingly unreliable hands of a gang of bickering eccentrics: alien outlaw Lilith (Cate Blanchett), mercenary Roland (Kevin Hart), sarcastic robot Claptrap (Jack Black) and mad scientist Dr. Tannis (Jamie Lee Curtis).
Reagan (Aug. 30, in theaters)
Dennis Quaid plays Ronald Reagan from his 30s to his 80s, with Penelope Ann Miller as Nancy Reagan, Mena Survari as Jane Wyman (his first movie star wife) and Leslie-Ann Downe as Margaret Thatcher.
**Content published with permission from AARP and originally published on aarp.org.
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