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Movies are back in full force this summer, and June feels like the month the floodgates break. There’s action comedies! Experimental documentaries! Sexy European romantic tragedies! Horror flicks!
Zola. Plus a new Pixar movie and an animated film about a chainsaw-wielding George Washington leading a team to fight Benedict Arnold. Get ready, friends.
Here are a dozen of June’s most interesting films to look for in theaters or on streaming platforms.
All Light Everywhere
Release date: June 4
We undeniably live in a surveillance society. Cameras are ubiquitous, from body cameras on cops to drone-enabled cameras that capture views from above to the phone cameras we hold in our hands every day. But what do cameras miss? Do they really give us a more objective view of reality? Those are the questions Theo Anthony (
28May 2021
At the start of the trailer for A24 horror
False Positive, hopeful mum-to-be Lucy muses: “Am I going to be one of those women who has it all? A career, kids, my old man by my side.” By the end of the clip, as a blood-covered Lucy punches a man in the face, it seems her question has been answered: no.
Directed by John Lee, the film offers a contemporary spin on
Rosemary’s Baby, and follows Lucy (portrayed by Ilana Glazer) and her partner Adrian (Justin Theroux) as they seek the help of a fertility doctor after months of failing to get pregnant. Unluckily for them, they stumble upon Dr Hindle (played by Pierce Brosnan), whose initial charm turns sinister after Lucy gets pregnant. Things soon take a dark turn as Lucy sets out to uncover the unsettling truth about Hindle and her own “birth story”.