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June 2016 Summer Movie



Stop the presses: there will be neither a Marvel nor a DC superhero film opening this month. But don't worry! Hollywood will continue to make sure that no moviegoer suffers even the faintest trace of CGI withdrawal. Be it the specters of The Conjuring 2, the aquatic heroes of Finding Dory, the invading aliens of Independence Day: Resurgence, or the massive biceps of The Rock, multiplex screens will continue to brim with larger-than-life sound and fury. Read on to find out which titles will best satisfy your summer-movie appetite.

 Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (June 3) Justin Bieber is none-too-subtly skewered courtesy of this Andy Samberg comedy, in which the Brooklyn Nine-Nine star plays a corny singer/rapper whose career is put in jeopardy by an unsuccessful second album.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (June 3) Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello, and Raphael are back to combat the resurrected Shredder—this time with the help of both Megan Fox's April and Stephen Amell's Casey Jones—in this follow-up to the 2014 series reboot.

 The Fits (June 3) A stunning debut from writer/director Anna Rose Holmer, this Sundance indie charts the hypnotic coming-of-age odyssey of an outcast young girl who wants to join her local dance squad.
Warcraft (June 10) You've played the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (maybe for an unhealthy amount of days/weeks/months/years); now, Moon's Duncan Jones turns it into a special effects-heavy film adaptation about the unlikely alliance forged by humans and orcs.
The Conjuring 2: The Endfield Experiment (June 10) James Wan is back with more pseudo-"based on a true story" horror involving paranormal experts Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga), who now travel to England to deal with a case of poltergeist possession.

De Palma (June 10) Brian De Palma has made some of cinema's most thrilling—and intellectually complex—thrillers, and his illustrious career gets the non-fiction-overview treatment courtesy of this sterling documentary from filmmakers Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow.  
 
Finding Dory (June 17) Ellen DeGeneres' forgetful fish Dory goes in search of her long-lost family—along the way enlisting the help of Albert Brooks' Marlin and Hayden Rolence's Nemo—in this sequel to Pixar's beloved underwater comedy-adventure.
Central Intelligence (June 17) Kevin Hart is the screaming-mad geeky sidekick to Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's extraordinary CIA badass (a pairing that's destined for odd-couple bickering) in this mismatched-buddy-comedy.
Independence Day: Resurgence (June 24) Twenty years later, the aliens of ID4 return with a new plan to wipe out humanity, thus compelling many of the former heroes to return to battle (although not Will Smith, who chose to sit this sequel out) in Roland Emmerich's long-awaited follow-up.
Free State of Jones (June 24) Matthew McConaughey is a noble southerner who bands together with local farmers and slaves to rebel against the Confederacy—in the process creating his own sovereign state during the Civil War—in this historical action-drama from The Hunger Games director Gary Ross.
The Neon Demon (June 24) Nicolas Winding Refn is one of international cinema's reigning enfant terribles, and he made further controversial waves at this year's Cannes Film Festival with this stylish horror film about an L.A. model (Elle Fanning) who finds herself in lethal trouble from those in her industry.
Swiss Army Man (June 24) Known as "the farting corpse movie" ever since it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, this indie is sure to attract headlines with its story about a man (Paul Dano) stranded on a desert island who befriends a corpse (Daniel Radcliffe) with a perpetual erection and a habit of dispelling gas.
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (June 24) New Zealand director Taika Waititi's 2014 comedy What We Do in the Shadows was an underrated gem, and his latest is an equally sterling effort, about a young delinquent (Julian Dennison) who goes on the lam in the New Zealand bush with his grouchy, backwoods foster father (Sam Neill).
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