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RISE This drama tells the story of the Antetokounmpo brothers, Greeks who became professional basketball players, two for the Milwaukee Bucks. PRESS PLAY A woman discovers she can travel through time and potentially prevent the death of a loved one with the help of a mixtape they made. It centers on a Ukrainian gymnast (Anastasiia Budiashkina) in exile in Switzerland at the time of the Maidan protests that began in 2013. OLGA This Swiss-German-Ukrainian feature premiered last year, before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February. Isabella Rossellini supplies the voice of Marcel’s grandmother.
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MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON A tiny, talking shell voiced by Jenny Slate searches for his extended family in a movie-screen-size update of the early shorts Slate made with Dean Fleischer Camp. It concerns a goldfish farmer contending with regional corruption in Iran. “A Man of Integrity” is an earlier feature - it premiered in 2017 - that hasn’t yet been released in the United States.
When it played at the Berlin Film Festival, Jessica Kiang, in The Times, wrote that it was “surely the most single-minded evocation of the discomfort of suppressing flatulence ever to get a major festival berth.” (June 24 in theaters and on demand)Ī MAN OF INTEGRITY When the Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof won the Golden Bear at the 2020 Berlin Film Festival for “ There Is No Evil,” he couldn’t accept the prize in person because he had been banned from leaving his country. (June 24 in theaters)įLUX GOURMET The British neo-exploitation auteur Peter Strickland (“ The Duke of Burgundy”) chronicles the adventures of a “sonic collective” dabbling in the culinary arts.
Austin Butler plays the King, Olivia DeJonge plays Priscilla Presley and Kelvin Harrison Jr. Tom Parker, Elvis’s manager, in this biopic from Baz Luhrmann, who presumably takes his usual freewheeling approach to history and film style. He did so from Australia, where he was starring as Col. (June 24 in theaters)ĮLVIS Tom Hanks was one of the first famous people to announce he’d contracted the coronavirus. Scott Derrickson (the first “Doctor Strange”) directed.
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THE BLACK PHONE Ethan Hawke plays a serial killer who kidnaps a boy (Mason Thames) - but a phone in the room where he’s imprisoned allows him to communicate with the ghosts (judging from the trailer) of the murderer’s other victims. WE (NOUS) The documentarian Alice Diop observes life in the suburbs of Paris in an area home to many Black and immigrant residents and linked by a train line. LOVE & GELATO The young-adult best seller by Jenna Evans Welch becomes a movie, with Susanna Skaggs playing a soon-to-be college student traveling in Rome. (June 17 on Netflix)ĬIVIL The civil rights lawyer Ben Crump, who represented George Floyd’s family, is profiled in this documentary. Miles Teller and Jurnee Smollett also star. Chris Hemsworth oversees a prison where inmates, instead of being caged, are medicated with psychotropic drugs. SPIDERHEAD Not only is the long-delayed “Top Gun: Maverick” finally out, but its director, Joseph Kosinski, has another film in the can, based on a short story from The New Yorker, no less. SHAKEDOWN This documentary, from Leilah Weinraub, explores the culture of Black lesbian strip clubs in Los Angeles. When it played at the Tribeca Film Festival last year, Natalia Winkelman, writing in The Times, called it “an assured debut from the directors Noah Dixon and Ori Segev.” (June 17 in theaters) POSER Sylvie Mix plays a podcaster who covers the Columbus, Ohio, indie-rock scene and develops an obsession with one of the musicians (Bobbi Kitten). He was also, for a time, romantically involved with the screen star Ivor Novello (Jeremy Irvine). Like his associate Wilfred Owen (Matthew Tennyson), Sassoon wrote of his experiences in World War I. (June 3 in theaters)īENEDICTION The British director Terence Davies (“The House of Mirth”) applies his poetic, prismatic touch to a biography of a poet: Siegfried Sassoon, played by Jack Lowden as a young man and Peter Capaldi at a later age. (In a 2018 review for The Times, Bilge Ebiri described it “as if Guy Maddin and Kenneth Anger adapted one of Joseph Conrad’s nightmares for a sexploitation producer.”) Mandico’s new film is set on another planet and involves an assassin who shares a name with the British art-pop singer Kate Bush. JuneĪFTER BLUE (DIRTY PARADISE) The director Bertrand Mandico’s “The Wild Boys” found a small cult of fans. Release dates and platforms are subject to change and reflect the latest information as of deadline. Here is a select list of noteworthy films scheduled this summer.