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Barbie springs to life, Indy swings into action and Spidey slings new webs. Here are 107 films for movie lovers of all tastes.

By Ben Kenigsberg

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.

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)

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)

MAGGIE MOORE(S) Jon Hamm plays a police chief investigating why two women named Maggie Moore were both bumped off. Tina Fey also stars. Hamm's "Mad Men" foil, John Slattery, directed. (June 16 in theaters)

THE STROLL The directors Kristen Lovell and Zackary Drucker's documentary revisits the years when New York's meatpacking district was a place where transgender prostitutes could create a (relatively) safe space for one another. It is "a story that the filmmakers tell with humor, wryness, well-earned tears, some smartly deployed archival material and numerous talking-head interviews," Manohla Dargis wrote when it played at Sundance. (June 21 on Max)

DESPERATE SOULS, DARK CITY AND THE LEGEND OF MIDNIGHT COWBOY This documentary from Nancy Buirski ("The Rape of Recy Taylor") uses "Midnight Cowboy" as a jumping-off point to explore the atmosphere and cultural shifts that enabled the 1969 movie, the only X-rated film to win the Oscar for best picture, to be made. (June 23 in theaters)

GOD IS A BULLET Nick Cassavetes made this thriller about a detective searching for his daughter, who was kidnapped by satanic cultists. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Maika Monroe and Jamie Foxx star. (June 23 in theaters)

HERE. IS. BETTER. Four veterans receiving treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder are profiled in this documentary. The former Senate candidate Jason Kander, who in 2018 dropped out of the Kansas City mayoral race to concentrate on recovering, appears in the film. (June 23 in theaters, June 27 on demand)

LOREN & ROSE Rose (Jacqueline Bisset), an actress, and Loren (Kelly Blatz), a filmmaker, engage in a series of conversations in a drama that's billed as belonging to the "My Dinner With Andre" genre. (June 23 in theaters)

NO HARD FEELINGS Jennifer Lawrence plays an Uber driver who, in need of money to save her house, goes to work for two parents (Matthew Broderick and Laura Benanti) who want her to deflower their 19-year-old (Andrew Barth Feldman). Gene Stupnitsky directed. (June 23 in theaters)

THE PERFECT FIND Gabrielle Union and Keith Powers star in this adaptation of a novel by Tia Williams. The book was about a midcareer fashion journalist who falls for a 20-something videographer. (June 23 on Netflix)

REVOIR PARIS In a drama from Alice Winocour ("Proxima"), Virginie Efira plays an interpreter who survives a mass shooting in a restaurant, then tries to piece together exactly what happened and to heal from the trauma. Benoît Magimel and Nastya Golubeva co-star. (June 23 in theaters)

WORLD’S BEST A math whiz hopes to follow in the footsteps of his father, a rapper. Utkarsh Ambudkar and Manny Magnus star. Thomas Kail, the director of "Hamilton," is one of the producers. (June 23 on Disney+)

EVERY BODY Julie Cohen (one of the directors of the documentaries "RBG" and "Gabby Giffords Won't Back Down") made this look at three people who are intersex and who have helped raise awareness of intersex people. (June 30 in theaters)

IN THE COMPANY OF ROSE The veteran Broadway director and Sondheim collaborator James Lapine made this documentary about the poet and journalist Rose Styron, who was married to the "Sophie's Choice" author William Styron. (June 30 in theaters and on demand)

INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY We all know that Henry Jones Jr. will never be too old to hang up his hat. James Mangold is at the helm of the fifth and, at 154 minutes, longest-yet entry in the franchise — the first Indy movie in 15 years, and the first not directed by Steven Spielberg. Harrison Ford is back in the title role, obviously. Phoebe Waller-Bridge plays his goddaughter. (June 30 in theaters)

MILLIE LIES LOW In this comedy from New Zealand, an aspiring architect who panics and misses her flight to New York, where she is due to start an internship, pretends to be there anyway through social media. (June 30 in theaters)

NATURAL LIGHT The Hungarian filmmaker Denes Nagy won the directing prize at Berlin in 2021 for this World War II drama in which a farmer is compelled to take charge of his military unit. (June 30 on Film Movement Plus)

NIMONA In a fantasy realm, the title character (voiced by Chloë Grace Moretz), a shape-shifter, helps a besmirched knight (Riz Ahmed) clear his name. Nick Bruno and Troy Quane directed this adaptation of a graphic novel by ND Stevenson. (June 30 on Netflix)

PRISONER’S DAUGHTER Dying of cancer, a prisoner (Brian Cox) gets a chance to be released to live with his daughter (Kate Beckinsale), who does not harbor warm feelings toward him. Catherine Hardwicke ("Twilight") directed. (June 30 in theaters)

RUBY GILLMAN, TEENAGE KRAKEN You might know the Kraken sea monster from "Clash of the Titans" or the pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell's threat to release one. In this animated feature, the Kraken and mermaids are bitter enemies. Alas, Ruby, an adolescent Kraken voiced by Lana Condor, must deal with a mermaid mean girl (Annie Murphy) at school. Jane Fonda provides the voice of Ruby's Kraken grandmother. (June 30 in theaters)

UMBERTO ECO — A LIBRARY OF THE WORLD The author of "The Name of the Rose" died in 2016, but the director Davide Ferrario filmed him the previous year. With that material and more, this documentary invites viewers to explore Eco's private library, which is said to have included 50,000 volumes. (June 30 in theaters)

ONCE UPON A TIME IN UGANDA This documentary tells the story of Isaac Nabwana, who started a movie studio, Wakaliwood, in a Kampala slum, and his friend Alan Hofmanis. (July 4 in theaters)

WHAM! Some documentarians find a subject, and they’re good to go. But Chris Smith ("Sr.," "American Movie") is said to have been given unprecedented access to the archive of the band Wham! So he was good to go-go. (July 5 on Netflix)

BIOSPHERE Two friends (Sterling K. Brown and Mark Duplass) are the last humans on the planet because they have a helpful dome to live in. But the dome is not impervious to trouble. Mel Eslyn directed. (July 7 in theaters and on demand)

EARTH MAMA Tia Nomore stars as a pregnant mother trying to regain custody of her children, who have been put in foster care. When this drama, written and directed by Savanah Leaf, opened New Directors/New Films this year, Manohla Dargis wrote that it was among the strongest features in the festival. "Leaf skillfully engages with larger social issues while steering clear of the kind of sermonizing that too often seeps into similarly themed dramas," she added. (July 7 in theaters)

INSIDIOUS: THE RED DOOR Josh (Patrick Wilson) and Dalton (Ty Simpkins) are probably due for a boring father-son road trip by now, but no, they just have to go astral-projecting themselves back into demonic realms. Wilson directed. Rose Byrne and Lin Shaye return. (July 7 in theaters)

JOY RIDE Two childhood friends (Ashley Park and Sherry Cola), joined by two others (Stephanie Hsu and Sabrina Wu), take a wild trip to China that includes a search for an adoptive mother and a lot of complications. Adele Lim directed this raunch-com. (July 7 in theaters)

THE LESSON Never meet your heroes, and especially don't work for them. Or at least don't if you are a young writer (Daryl McCormack) trying to make your mark, and your great-author boss (Richard E. Grant) is embroiled in a particularly turbulent family situation. Julie Delpy also stars. (July 7 in theaters)

THE OUT-LAWS Adam Devine plays a bank manager who suspects his fiancée (Nina Dobrev) is the daughter of bank robbers. That would make his future in-laws … outlaws. Pierce Brosnan and Ellen Barkin also star. (July 7 on Netflix)

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE — DEAD RECKONING PART ONE How big is the latest "Mission: Impossible" movie? So big it's actually two movies. So epic no one could figure out how to punctuate the title. ("Dead Reckoning Part Two" is due next year.) Tom Cruise, risking life and limb again as Ethan Hunt, is joined by some familiar faces (Rebecca Ferguson, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg) and some new ones (Hayley Atwell). (July 12 in theaters)

AFIRE Resentments start to smolder for a group of friends on a getaway near the Baltic Sea. The acclaimed German director Christian Petzold won second place at the Berlin International Film Festival for his latest feature, his third in a row (after "Transit" and "Undine") with the actress Paula Beer. (July 14 in theaters)

BIRD BOX BARCELONA This offshoot of the 2018 Sandra Bullock thriller "Bird Box" is set in Spain. Mario Casas, Georgina Campbell and Diego Calva ("Babylon") are among the actors in a world that is only safe to traverse while blindfolded. (July 14 on Netflix)

FINAL CUT Michel Hazanavicius ("The Artist") remakes the synopsis-resistant Japanese cult hit "One Cut of the Dead," which begins with a film crew shooting a zombie movie. Romain Duris and Bérénice Bejo star. (July 14 in theaters)

LAKOTA NATION VS. UNITED STATES Jesse Short Bull and Laura Tomaselli's documentary follows the efforts of the Lakota to recover the Black Hills, an area of land they contend was taken from them. (July 14 in theaters)

THE LEAGUE The documentarian Sam Pollard ("MLK/FBI") chronicles the history of baseball's Negro leagues, which played their last World Series in 1948, the year after Jackie Robinson became the first Black player on a Major League team. (July 14 in theaters and on demand)

THE MIRACLE CLUB Laura Linney plays a woman who returns to Ireland after her mother's death in the 1960s and goes on a pilgrimage to Lourdes, France. Kathy Bates and Maggie Smith also star. (July 14 in theaters)

THEATER CAMP Longtime attendees of a camp for aspiring thespians have to rally after the institution's founder (Amy Sedaris) goes into a coma, and counselors played by Molly Gordon and Ben Platt have to put together the summer's big show. Gordon and Platt are among the writers, and Gordon directed with Nick Lieberman. (July 14 in theaters)

20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL Mstyslav Chernov, a video journalist for The Associated Press, documents his and his colleagues’ experiences in the Ukrainian city while it was under siege. (July 14 in theaters)

TWO TICKETS TO GREECE Friends who have grown distant (Laure Calamy and Olivia Côte) go on a getaway trip together. Kristin Scott Thomas also stars. (July 14 in theaters)

BARBIE Mattel has sold a lot of different versions of Barbie, and the concept of Greta Gerwig's much-anticipated, meta-looking film version appears to be that there are many Barbies in Barbie Land. Margot Robbie plays one of them, and Ryan Gosling is one of multiple Kens. Gerwig wrote the screenplay with Noah Baumbach. (July 21 in theaters)

LOVE LIFE This drama from the Japanese director Koji Fukada ("Harmonium") concerns a mother's reunion with her ex, who is homeless and deaf, after their child dies. (July 21 in theaters)

OPPENHEIMER Given Christopher Nolan's commitment to visceral impact, you might want to wear a radiation suit to IMAX screenings of his portrait of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist who gave the world the atomic bomb. Cillian Murphy is the man who will see himself in the Bhagavad Gita line "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." With him are Matt Damon, Emily Blunt and Florence Pugh. (July 21 in theaters)

STEPHEN CURRY: UNDERRATED Peter Nicks, a specialist in Bay Area documentaries ("The Force," "Homeroom"), directed this biographical look at the Golden State Warrior, considered the greatest shooter ever. (July 21 on Apple TV+)

THEY CLONED TYRONE John Boyega, Jamie Foxx and Teyonah Parris play neighborhood acquaintances who stumble across a government conspiracy that, yes, involves cloning. Juel Taylor directed. (July 21 on Netflix)

EL AGUA A teenager (Luna Pamies) who lives in a village in Spain that is prone to fatal floods has a summer fling. Elena López Riera directed. (July 27 in theaters)

HAPPINESS FOR BEGINNERS A divorcée (Ellie Kemper) tackles a survival course with the hope of rekindling her joie de vivre. Vicky Wight wrote and directed this adaptation of a novel by Katherine Center. (July 27 on Netflix)

THE BEASTS The winner of this year's top prize at the Goya Awards (Spain's version of the Oscars) concerns a French couple who arrive in a poor region of Galicia with the hope of doing organic farm work. Some residents don't take kindly to them. Rodrigo Sorogoyen directed. (July 28 in theaters)

HAUNTED MANSION Disney turned its Pirates of the Caribbean and Jungle Cruise rides into movies. Now it's the Haunted Mansion's turn. LaKeith Stanfield, Tiffany Haddish, Owen Wilson and Danny DeVito are among the living, or so it appears from the trailer. (July 28 in theaters)

KOKOMO CITY The music producer and singer-songwriter D. Smith directed this documentary portrait of four Black transgender sex workers. One of them, Koko Da Doll, was shot dead last month in Atlanta. (July 28 in theaters)

SUSIE SEARCHES A true-crime podcaster (Kiersey Clemons) takes it on herself to solve a mystery. Alex Wolff ("Hereditary") and Rachel Sennott ("Shiva Baby") also star. (July 28 in theaters and on demand)

TALK TO ME As a party game, a group of Australian thrill-seekers dare one another into conjuring spirits and being possessed by them. The problem, in what amounts to an antipodean spin on "Flatliners," is that there are consequences to staying possessed for more than a brief window of time. Danny and Michael Philippou directed. Sophie Wilde stars. (July 28 in theaters)

WAR PONY Gina Gammell and the actress Riley Keough won the 2022 Cannes Film Festival's Camera d’Or — the prize for best first feature — for directing this drama about an Oglala Lakota man and boy whose lives intersect. (July 28 in theaters)

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: MUTANT MAYHEM Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are just the right age to have experienced Turtlemania at its height. They’re among the screenwriters of this latest animated reboot. Names as varied as Hannibal Buress, Rose Byrne, Jackie Chan and Maya Rudolph lend their voices. (Aug. 2 in theaters)

A COMPASSIONATE SPY A rare historical documentary from Steve James ("Hoop Dreams"), "A Compassionate Spy" examines the life of Theodore Hall, a physicist who worked on the atomic bomb and who, near the end of his life, seemed to admit to charges that he had given information to the Soviet Union. (Aug. 4 in theaters and on demand)

MEG 2: THE TRENCH You can't keep a good megalodon down, and in this sequel to "The Meg" (2018), a group of the prehistoric sharks escape the ultra-deep trench where they have somehow avoided extinction. But Jason Statham has humanity's back. Ben Wheatley directed. (Aug. 4 in theaters)

OUR BODY At a hospital in Paris, the documentarian Claire Simon filmed patients undergoing a variety of procedures and consultations, with the aim of showing the range of experiences women have with medical care from adolescence until death. (Aug. 4 in theaters)

PASSAGES This prickly drama from Ira Sachs earned wide praise from critics at Sundance. A film director (Franz Rogowski), who in his restlessness and multifaceted sexuality evokes Rainer Werner Fassbinder, tries to dominate all corners of the love triangle he creates when he starts sleeping with a female schoolteacher (Adèle Exarchopoulos), much to the chagrin of his husband (Ben Whishaw). (Aug. 4 in theaters)

PROBLEMISTA A Salvadoran man (Julio Torres, known for "Saturday Night Live" and "Los Espookys") who wants to be a toy designer and a splenetic art-world figure (Tilda Swinton) are the focus of this comedy. Torres wrote and directed. (Aug. 4 in theaters)

BETWEEN TWO WORLDS Juliette Binoche plays a journalist who takes a job as a cleaning woman to learn about abuses of workers in the industry. The novelist and filmmaker Emmanuel Carrère directed. (Aug. 11 in theaters)

THE ETERNAL MEMORY Augusto Góngora, a Chilean television presenter, and his wife, Paulina Urrutia, an actress and a former culture minister for the country, learn how to navigate life after Góngora's Alzheimer's diagnosis. Their relationship is the subject of this documentary from Maite Alberdi ("The Mole Agent"). (Aug. 11 in theaters)

GRAN TURISMO Beginning in the mid-aughts, Nissan and Sony gave aficionados of the PlayStation racing game Gran Turismo a chance to race in real life. Jann Mardenborough, who succeeded at that challenge, has now also had a movie made about his experience. Archie Madekwe plays Mardenborough. Orlando Bloom and David Harbour co-star. Neill Blomkamp ("District 9") directed. (Aug. 11 in theaters)

HEART OF STONE Gal Gadot goes into action-movie mode as an intelligence operative named Rachel Stone who is, according to Gadot in Netflix's teaser, addicted to adrenaline. Alia Bhatt and Jamie Dornan also star. (Aug. 11 on Netflix)

JULES When an extraterrestrial drops into Pennsylvania, a local (Ben Kingsley) makes its acquaintance. Harriet Sansom Harris and Jane Curtin also star. (Aug. 11 in theaters)

THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER An episode from Bram Stoker's "Dracula" — the count's passage to England by sea, where men on the ship start going missing — has been fleshed out into a feature film. Corey Hawkins and Aisling Franciosi star. André Ovredal directed. (Aug. 11 in theaters)

THE POD GENERATION Emilia Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor play would-be parents who have a chance to split the burdens of gestation thanks to the invention of artificial wombs. Sophie Barthes directed. (Aug. 11 in theaters, Aug. 29 on demand)

RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE An American president's son and a British prince find they have feelings for each other. Taylor Zakhar Perez and Nicholas Galitzine star in this adaptation of Casey McQuiston's novel. (Aug. 11 on Amazon Prime)

BACK ON THE STRIP A magician becomes part of an effort to reassemble a retired troupe of male strippers. Wesley Snipes, Tiffany Haddish and Spence Moore star. (Aug. 18 in theaters)

BIRTH/REBIRTH In the summer's second spin on "Frankenstein" — see "The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster," above — Marin Ireland plays a pathologist who aims to revivify a dead child. Laura Moss directed. (Aug. 18 in theaters)

BLUE BEETLE Gregor Samsa awoke from uneasy dreams and found himself transformed into a giant insect. Jaime Reyes (Xolo Maridueña from "Cobra Kai") mucks around with ancient alien biotechnology and finds himself transformed into the DC superhero Blue Beetle. Take that, Kafka. (Aug. 18 in theaters)

LANDSCAPE WITH INVISIBLE HAND The playwright-filmmaker Cory Finley ("Thoroughbreds") directed this adaptation of a sci-fi young-adult novel by M.T. Anderson. Asante Blackk and Kylie Rogers play teenagers who run afoul of the aliens who rule Earth. With Tiffany Haddish. (Aug. 18 in theaters)

THE MONKEY KING Jimmy O. Yang, Bowen Yang and Stephanie Hsu provide some of the voices in an animated film built around a perennially popular character from Chinese literature. (Aug. 18 on Netflix)

MUTT In Vuk Lungulov-Klotz's debut feature, a transgender man, Feña (Lío Mehiel), has to navigate dealing with his sister, his father and an ex during a busy and fraught 24 hours. (Aug. 18 in theaters)

STRAYS "The Incredible Journey" this is not. In a raunchy live-action comedy, Will Ferrell voices a Border terrier abandoned by his owner (Will Forte). He meets a pack of strays with the voices of Jamie Foxx, Isla Fisher and Randall Park. (Aug. 18 in theaters)

WHITE BIRD R.J. Palacio's novel "Wonder" was adapted into a movie nearly six years ago. In this film, based on a follow-up book, the bully (Bryce Gheisar) of the first story learns about intolerance from his grandmother (Helen Mirren), a Holocaust survivor who shares her wartime experiences with him. Gillian Anderson also stars. Marc Forster directed. (Aug. 18 in theaters)

BEFORE, NOW & THEN The director Kamila Andini earned strong reviews at last year's Berlin International Film Festival for this feature, in which a woman forges a connection with her dead husband's mistress against the backdrop of extreme brutality in 1960s Indonesia. (Aug. 25 in theaters)

BOTTOMS Following up "Shiva Baby," the director Emma Seligman and the actress Rachel Sennott reunite for a high school comedy they wrote in which two seniors (Sennott and Ayo Edebiri) start a fight club not because they want to pummel people, but because they think cheerleaders will swoon. (Aug. 25 in theaters)

BRIEF ENCOUNTERS Made in 1967 and banned in the Soviet Union, this early feature from the celebrated director Kira Muratova — born in Romania but generally identified as Ukrainian — is getting a formal American release only now. When it surfaced in New York in 2000, J. Hoberman described it in The New York Times as "a sardonic romantic triangle set in an all-too-recognizable social milieu of the casual shortages and shoddy apartments of professional-class Odessa." (Aug. 25 in theaters)

GOLDA A heavily made-up Helen Mirren plays the Israeli prime minister Golda Meir during the Arab-Israeli war of 1973. Liev Schreiber appears as Henry Kissinger. Guy Nattiv directed. (Aug. 25 in theaters)

SCRAPPER A girl (Lola Campbell) is resourcefully getting by on her own after her mother's death when her father (Harris Dickinson) returns. Charlotte Regan wrote and directed. (Aug. 25 in theaters)

VACATION FRIENDS 2 Kyla (Meredith Hagner) and Ron (John Cena) may have crashed the wedding of Emily (Yvonne Orji) and Marcus (Lil Rel Howery), but that won't prevent them all from going on another trip together. (Aug. 25 on Hulu)

YOU ARE SO NOT INVITED TO MY BAT MITZVAH! Outside events threaten to spoil a girl's bat mitzvah celebration. With Idina Menzel, Adam Sandler and several members of Sandler's family. (Aug. 25 on Netflix)

CHOOSE LOVE In the spirit of "Black Mirror: Bandersnatch," this Netflix feature is an "interactive rom-com." Though it does seem like the title is steering viewers toward one particular choice. (Aug. 31 on Netflix)

THE EQUALIZER 3 Retired assassins have a way of not staying retired, and Robert McCall (Denzel Washington), after trying to lead a quiet life in Italy, decides he might as well dispense with the Mafia. Antoine Fuqua returns as director. Dakota Fanning, who appeared nearly 20 years ago with Washington in "Man on Fire," also stars. (Sept. 1 in theaters)

Compiled with the assistance of Gabe Cohn.

An earlier version of this article misstated the surname of the writer-director of "Happiness for Beginners." She is Vicky Wight, not Wright.

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