They say it’s a strange summer for movies. Studios are putting all their chips on 2025 being the year that movie theaters come back , and are stacking the calendar accordingly . The big superhero movie houses are almost all on pause.
Massive franchises are staying out of the summer window, with Dune: Part Two a spring fling and Joker: Folie à Deux biding its time until fall. But that just means there’s actually room for the little guys to breathe. There are inventive geri-action comedies, summer horror flicks, literary romance adaptations, and even an Oscar-nominated animated feature finally getting wide release.
Some of your favorite franchises are back with new installments, like Inside Out, Alien, Bad Boys, and The Crow. And, of course, there’s still one remaining big-budget superhero crossover blowout. Here’s what Polygon is looking forward to most.
Release date: July 4 This is one of those movies I’ve been waiting for all year after hearing the buzz from the festival circuit. Kill promises to rewrite American expectations of popular Bollywood cinema, bringing a darkly violent action thriller to the screens. Set on a train to Delhi, the movie follows a commando (Lakshya) and his friend as they try to reunite with the man’s lover after her family takes her away ahead of an arranged marriage.
As the two men make their way through the train, bandits attack and violence ensues. The action is absolutely brutal and the movie has plenty of surprises in store — no.
