Hereditary (June 8, wide) — Writer-director Ari Aster’s feature debut, about a household that suffers strange and terrifying events after grandma dies, earned raves at the Sundance Film Festival in January, with Toni Collette’s performance being hailed as one of the versatile actor’s best. Aster made two shorts, The Strange Thing About the Johnsons and Munchausen, that dealt with violently dysfunctional parent-child relationships. It would appear he has more to say on this subject.
[image-7] Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (June 8, limited) — What’s the perfect counterprogramming for a family horror flick? Try Morgan Neville’s celebration of Fred Rogers’ quietly revolutionary children’s TV show Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood, which aired five times per week from the mid-1960s until 2001. Neville’s terrific backup-singer feature 20 Feet From Stardom won the Best Documentary Oscar four years ago. Here, he turns his lens on a superhero whose uniform was a cardigan and whose power was empathy.
Incredibles 2 (June 15, wide) — Not that traditional bad-guy-punchin’ superpowers aren’t great, too. It’s been 14 years since writer-director Brad Bird and Pixar gave us the Best Animated Feature-winning The Incredibles, but through the magic of animation, this sequel picks up the story of this struggling household of “supers” — again voiced by Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter and Sarah Vowell, with Bob Odenkirk and Catherine Keener signing on, too — soon after the original ended. In the interim, Bird turned the troubled Ratatouille into a success, gave the Mission: Impossible franchise a new lease on life with the Burj Khalifa-scaling Ghost Protocol, and did his doggone durndest to make the earnest fantasy Tomorrowland work. The capes-and-tights genre was a lot less crowded back in 2004, but if anyone can make it fresh again, it’s a Bird (it’s a plane, etc.).

Fred Rogers (right), appearing with David Newell in the children’s TV show Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood, is the subject of the documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
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Tessa Thompson (left) and Lakeith Stanfield are two of the stars of Sorry to Bother You, a satire about a guy who takes a telemarketing gig and finds that affecting the voice of a white man is the key to success.
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Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot (July 13, limited) — I won’t lie: I picked this one for the title. Joaquin Phoenix stars as the quadriplegic cartoonist John Callahan, whose memoir inspired the film. Director Gus Van Sant adapted Callahan’s book. Jonah Hill, Rooney Mara and Jack Black appear, if you’re into those sorts of things.

Daveed Diggs (left) and Rafael Casal are the stars and co-writers of Blindspotting, a tense examination of race relations.
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Mission: Impossible — Fallout (July 27, wide) — The most thrilling analog action franchise around used to essentially reboot itself with a new director and supporting cast each time. For Mission No. 6, busy screenwriter and script doc Christopher McQuarrie becomes the first director to return. He’s retained Rebecca Ferguson, Alec Baldwin and Sean Harris from 2015’s Rogue Nation and added Henry “the world’s most expensive mustache” Cavill and Angela Bassett to the crew. The shot of age-defying producer/star/stunt-Thetan Tom Cruise shattering his ankle against the side of a London building last August, necessitating a two-month hiatus in filming while he (partially) recovered, was in the trailer, but it’s far from the movie’s biggest stunt. That would be a skydive involving Cruise’s attempt to intercept Cavill midair; the star told a CinemaCon audience he did 106 jumps to get the scene in the can. One of these guys ages at roughly a quarter of standard human rate, believes himself to be descended from extraterrestrials and can fly. The other one is Superman.

Mila Kunis (left) and Kate McKinnon play roommates drawn into a web of intrigue in Susanna Fogel's The Spy Who Dumped Me.
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Ewan McGregor plays the adult version of Christopher Robin, the boy from A.A. Milne’s Winnie the Pooh stories in director Marc Forster's return to the period literary fantasy genre.
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Crazy Rich Asians (Aug. 17, wide) — An American economics professor (Constance Wu) of Chinese descent accompanies her boyfriend (Henry Golding) to Singapore, then discovers he’s part of a rich and aristocratic family. This adaptation of Kevin Kwan’s 2013 comic novel — a celebration or a condemnation of the leisure classes of Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai, depending upon whom you ask — comes from Jon M. Chu. He’s the director of two Step Up sequels, two Justin Bieber concert films, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Jem and the Holograms and Now You See Me 2. At least it won’t be pretentious.
Juliet, Naked (Aug. 17, limited) — Jesse Peretz, a founding member of soured indie rock band The Lemonheads before he became an auteur, seems like a good candidate to adapt Nick Hornby’s 2009 novel. It’s about a woman (Rose Byrne) who becomes involved with the semiretired cult musician (Ethan Hawke) with whom her boyfriend (Chris O’Dowd) is obsessed. Once again, Hornby puts the aging, stunted male rock superfan under glass — but Rob from High Fidelity didn’t have reddit forums to exacerbate his condition.
ALSO: Skyscraper (July 13) / The Meg (Aug. 10) — Dwayne Johnson vs. the World’s Tallest Building / Jason Statham vs. the World’s Largest Shark. Oh, I’m sorry: I thought you said you like movies.