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.
"Joy Ride" : 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."Biosphere" : Mark Duplass and Sterling K. Brown are the last two men on Earth. "20 Days in Mariupol" : AP's Mstyslav Chernov directs this documentary, a joint project between The Associated Press and PBS "Frontline," about the first weeks of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in which Chernov, photographer Evgeniy Maloletka, and field producer Vasilisa Stepanenko, became the only international journalists operating in the city. Their coverage won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
"A Compassionate Spy" : Steve James' documentary about the youngest physicist on the Manhattan Project who fed information to the Soviets."Problemista" : Julio Torres plays an aspiring toy designer in this surreal comedy co-starring Tilda Swinton that he also wrote, directed and produced."Gran Turismo" : A gamer gets a chance to drive a professional course in this video game adaptation starring David Harbour and Orlando Bloom.
"Bottoms" : Two unpopular teenage girls start a fight club to impress the cheerleaders they want to lose their virginity to in this parody of the teen sex comedy. "What's Love Got to Do with It?" : Lily James plays a documentary filmmaker whose next project follows her neighbor on his road to an arranged marriage in this charming romantic comedy.
"The Starling Girl" : 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's charismatic youth pastor. "White Men Can't Jump" : 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.
"Victim/Suspect" : This documentary explores how law enforcement sometimes indicts victims of sexual assault instead of helping.