20 new movies worth getting excited about this summer

polygon.com:

The summer movie season is nigh upon us! Following two years of release calendars sent spiraling into flux in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2022 has symbolized something of a realignment back to the rhythm of the expectations of our pre-pandemic world, already boasting a diverse swath of films that easily stand out as some of the year’s best.

That doesn’t appear to be changing as we steadily move into May and beyond, with a robust catalog of new releases to watch in theaters and at home coming this summer. From hotly anticipated tentpole releases like Top Gun: Maverick, Jurassic World: Dominion, Lightyear, and Thor: Love and Thunder to cerebral horror fare like Alex Garland’s Men, Jordan Peele’s Nope, and David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future to eccentric left-field films like Bullet Train and Ten Thousand Years of Longing, this season is positively stacked with a generous smorgasbord of exciting movies to choose from.

Here’s our list of the the biggest releases of the summer, as well as some of the most promising upcoming titles currently flying a bit under the radar.

Alex Garland’s Men is shaping up to be the director’s most mysterious film yet. Stepping aside from the explicit sci-fi premises of Ex Machina and Annihilation, Garland’s latest follows the story of Harper (Jessie Buckley), a woman who moves into an estate on the English countryside to distance herself from the recent loss of her husband. Something’s up with this town though, as Harper begins to feel more and more threatened by the leering smiles and inscrutable motivations of the men in the nearby town. It certainly doesn’t help that all the men appear to be played by Rory Kinnear and, at one point, look like they’re out to kill her. The question