2024 new movies: release schedule for this year's new movies

After 2023 saw massive movie-going events like Barbenheimer, The Super Mario Bros. Movie and the surprise of the year in Sound of Freedom, what lies in store with the slate of 2024 new movies? We're taking a macro look at it all right here, giving you a complete look at the 2024 movie release schedule.

To be clear, the list below includes only movies that are going to be playing in movie theaters; check out our what's new on Netflix, Disney Plus, Hulu, Max and Paramount Plus features to stay up to date on what new movies are coming to the exclusively to streaming services.

We'll be updating this list as more information about the slate of 2024 new movies becomes available. However, we already got the long-awaited Dune sequel, plus new franchise entries for A Quiet Place, Bad Boys and Deadpool are on the way, as well as new movies from Robert Zemeckis, M. Night Shyamalan, Tim Burton and more. Check it all out below.

November 2024 new movies

Gladiator 2

• Release date: November 22
• Cast: Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington, Joseph Quinn, Fred Hechinger, Connie Nielsen, Pedro Pascal
• Director: Ridley Scott

Movie fans are getting the chance to return to the colosseum with Ridley Scott's long awaited sequel to his Best Picture-winning movie Gladiator. However, one key component will be missing from Gladiator 2 — Russell Crowe's Maximus won't be back (not surprising considering how the first movie ended). There's still plenty of star power in the movie though to make up for that, including Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, Paul Mescal and Connie Nielsen headlining the cast.

Read WTW's Gladiator 2 review.

Wicked

• Release date: November 22
• Cast: Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum, Jonathan Bailey, Bowen Yang, Keala Settle, Brownwyn James, Ethan Slater, Marissa Bode
• Director: Jon M. Chu

The hit Broadway musical is getting a movie adaptation, as Wicked is set to be one of the bigger movies of 2024. The musical is actually being split into two parts (part two is currently dated for November 21, 2025). In case you aren't familiar with Wicked, it is a prequel story to The Wizard of Oz, telling how Elphaba and Glinda became the Wicked Witch of the West and the Good Witch, respectively. Can the movie enter into the conversation of best movie musicals?

Read WTW's Wicked review.

Moana 2

• Release date: November 27
• Cast: Auli'i Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson
• Director: Dave Derrick Jr.

Moana 2 is setting sail in 2024. Originally supposed to be a TV series, Disney made the call to switch it to a feature-length movie. The story sees Moana receive an unexpected call from her ancestors that requires her to journey to the seas of Oceania into dangerous waters. Providing songs for Moana and Maui to sing this time are Abigail Barlow, Emily Bear, Opetaia Foa'i and Mark Mancina.

Queer

• Release date: November 27 (US, limited)
• Cast: Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey, Lesley Manville, Jason Schwartzman, Henrique Zaga, Omar Apollo
• Director: Luca Guadagnino

Queer made quite the stir on the fall festival circuit, with many people calling the performance by Daniel Craig in Luca Guadagnino's adaptation of the William S. Burroughs novel one of the best of the actor's career. In the movie, Craig plays an American expat in Mexico City who breaks from his solitary life when he forms a connection with a young student.

September 5

• Release date: November 27 (US, limited)
• Cast: Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben Chaplin, Leonie Benesch
• Director: Tim Fehlbaum

September 5 is a contained thriller chronicling the hostage crisis at the 1972 Munich Games from the control room of ABC Sports as they figure out how to cover the event. The movie has garnered a good amount of buzz following its debuts at some of the major fall film festivals, and will see a limited release in late November before expanding nationwide in December.

December 2024 new movies

The End

• Release date: December 6
• Cast: Tilda Swinton, George MacKay, Moses Ingram, Bronagh Gallagher, Tim McInnerny, Lennie James, Michael Shannon
• Director: Joshua Oppenheimer

Whose ready for a post-apocalyptic musical? From the director of The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, The End focuses the only family that survived the end of the world, complete with classical musical numbers and a star-studded cast that includes Tilda Swinton and Michael Shannon. This one could be wonderfully weird.

Nightbitch

• Release date: December 6
• Cast: Amy Adams, Scoot McNairy, Arleigh Patrick Snowden, Emmett James Snowden, Zoë Chao, Mary Holland, Archana Rajan, Jessica Harper
• Director: Marielle Heller

Amy Adams' next movie hits screens in December, an adaptation of the Rachel Yoder satirical novel Nightbitch, which is being directed by Can You Ever Forgive Me? helmer Marielle Heller. The story about a woman who raises her toddler mostly alone as her husband is frequently away on business trips. Things go surreal when she realizes she may be transforming into a protective dog.

The Return

• Release date: December 6 (US)
• Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Charlie Plummer, Marwan Kenzari, Claudio Santamaria, Ángela Molina
• Director: Uberto Pasolini

Nearly 30 years after The English Patient, Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche reunite, this time playing classic literary characters Odysseus and Penelope in this adaptation of part of Homer's epic poem The Odyssey. The Return finds Odysseus finally getting back home to 20 years after the end of the Trojan War, but he and his home are much changed.

Y2K

• Release date: December 6
• Cast: Jaeden Martell, Rachel Zegler, Julian Dennison, The Kid Laroi, and Fred Durst
• Director: Kyle Mooney

Too young to remember the panic around Y2K? Then let this new comedy from Saturday Night Live veteran Kyle Mooney enlighten you, as the likes of Rachel Zelger, Jaeden Martell and Julian Dennison must fight for their lives as the clock strikes midnight on the 20th century. Find out more about Y2K here.

Dirty Angels

• Release date: December 13 (US)
• Cast: Eva Green, Maria Bakalova, Ruby Rose, Jojo T. Gibbs
• Director: Martin Campbell

Director Casino Royale reteams with his star Eva Green for the new movie Dirty Angels, where Green swaps her role as the Bond girl to play the leader of an all female rescue outfit looking to save girls trapped between ISIS and Taliban soldiers.

Kraven the Hunter

• Release date: December 13
• Cast: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Russell Crowe, Ariana DeBose, Christopher Abbott, Alessandro Nivola, Fred Hechhinger
• Director: J.C. Chandor

The second Sony/Marvel movie of 2024 brings another classic Spider-Man character to the big screen for the first time in Kraven The Hunter. Aaron Taylor-Johnson plays the greatest hunter in the world, set to go up against Russell Crowe and others.

The Last Showgirl

• Release date: December 13 (Los Angeles), January 10, 2025 (US nationwide)
• Cast: Pamela Anderson, Dave Buatista, Jamie Lee Curtis, Billie Lourd, Kiernan Shipka, Brendan Song
• Director: Gia Coppoloa

Pamela Anderson is being heralded for an incredible performance in her first leading role since the 90s in The Last Showgirl. Anderson stars as as Las Vegas performer who must figure out what to do with her life now that her long-running show is closing.

Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

• Release date: December 13
• Cast: Brian Cox, Gaia Wise, Miranda Otto, Luke Pasqualino, Lorraine Ashbourne, Yazdan Qafouri, Benjamin Wainwright, Laurence Ubong Williams, Shaun Dooley, Michael Wildman, Jude Akuwudike, Bilal Hasna, Janine Duvitski
• Director: Kenji Kamiyama

The Lord of the Rings universe is expanding, not just in its story but also in its format. The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim is an animated feature (with some reports suggesting it may lend closely to anime style) that tells the story of Helm's Deep 183 years before the events of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies.

Nickel Boys

• Release date: December 13 (US, limited)
• Cast: Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Hamish Linklater, Fred Hechinger, Daveed Diggs, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor
• Director: RaMell Ross

Colson Whitehead's acclaimed novel Nickel Boys about two Black teens in the 1960s that become friends under the harsh conditions of a juvenile reformatory is coming to the big screen. Whitehead's work was previously adapted into the acclaimed TV series The Underground Railroad, so expectation will be high for this story to reach the screen.

Babygirl

• Release date: December 20 (UK); December 25 (US)
• Cast: Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson, Antonio Banderas, Jean Reno, Sophia Wilde
• Director: Hailina Reijn

Babygirl, hailing from A24 and the director of Bodies Bodies Bodies, is a workplace drama that sees Nicole Kidman play a high-powered CEO who risks it all when she begins an affair with a much younger intertn.

The Brutalist

• Release date: December 20 (US, limited)
• Cast: Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Joe Alwyn, Alessandro Nivola, Jonathan Hyde
• Director: Brady Corbet

Billed as an epic, The Brutalist depicts a Hungarian immigrant and his wife's journey over decades in America that sees them attempt to escape from poverty when the husband wins an architecture contract from a wealthy patron. The movie already has snagged a major award, as director Brady Corbet was given the Silver Lion for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival.

Mufasa: The Lion King

• Release date: December 20
• Cast: Aaron Pierre, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Seth Rogen, Billy Eichner, John Kani
• Director: Barry Jenkins

After rebooting The Lion King in 2019 with hyper-realistic animal characters, Disney is returning to Pride Rock once again with Mufasa: The Lion King, but this time with a story that focuses on Mufasa's origin story. How did the young lion become the respected king that we see in The Lion King? That's what we expect this movie to explore.

The Room Next Door

• Release date: December 20 (US limited); now playing in UK
• Cast: Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton, John Turturro, Alessandro Nivola, Juan Diego Botto, Raúl Arévalo, Melina Mathews, Victoria Luengo
• Director: Pedro Almodóvar

Pedro Almodóvar makes his English-language feature debut with The Room Next Door, an adaptation of the Sigrid Nunez book What Are You Going Through. Oscar winners Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton play friends that reconnect after years apart in what is sure to be an intimate and powerful drama.

Sonic the Hedgehog 3

• Release date: December 20
• Cast: Ben Schwartz, James Marsden, Colleen O'Shaughnessey, Idris Elba, Jim Carrey
• Director: Jeff Fowler

Sonic raced into movie theaters in 2020 (after a little character design tweak the internet demanded) and became an instant hit. So much so that we are getting Sonic the Hedgehog 3 in 2024. There's not a whole lot we know about the plot of the movie yet, save that the character Shadow (teased in the image above and to be voiced by Keanu Reeves) is set to be a new villain in the movie.

Better Man

• Release date: December 25 (US limited, expanding January 17, 2025); December 26 (UK)
• Cast: Robbie Williams, Jonno Davies, Steve Pemberton, Damon Herriman, Raechelle Banno, Alison Steadman, Kate Mulvaney, Frazer Hadfield, Tom Budge, Anthony Hayes
• Director: Michael Gracey

British pop icon Robbie Williams is getting the music biopic treatment with Better Man, but there is a bit of twist — Williams is going to appear as a monkey in the movie (voiced by Williams, motion-capture performance by Jonno Davies). With thsi unique perspective, the movie will follow the rise and fall of Williams' career and all the different facets of fame.

The Fire Inside

• Release date: December 25 (US)
• Cast: Ryan Destiny, Brian Tyree Henry, Olunike Adeliyi
• Director: Rachel Morrison

What would a year be without an inspiring sports movie? Looking to deliver that to us in 2024 is The Fire Inside, which tells the story of Claressa "T-Rex" Shields, who wants to become the first woman to win a gold medal in boxing when a women's section of the sport was added to the 2012 Olympics.

Nosferatu

• Release date: December 25
• Cast: Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson, Simon McBurney, Willem Dafoe
• Director: Robert Eggers

The original movie vampire is back. Not Dracula, but Nosferatu. A modern-day remake of the classic 1922 vampire movie, Robert Eggers brings his touch to the proceedings along with an exceptional cast, led by an actor who knows how to play terrifying monsters, Bill Skarsgård.

Released movies

Self Reliance

• Released: January 3 (US, one night only)
• Cast: Jake Johnson, Anna Kendrick, Natalie Morales, Emily Hampshire, Mary Holland, Christopher Lloyd, Wayne Brady, Andy Samberg, Boban Marjanović
• Director: Jake Johnson

Self Reliance had a special one-night only screening in AMC movie theaters in the US before the movie premieres on streaming, specifically Hulu. The movie's Rotten Tomatoes score has it at a 63% "Fresh" as of January 8, with general audiences that have seen it giving it a positive rating 85% of the time.

Self Reliance does not have a UK release date as of this time.

Night Swim

• Released: January 5
• Cast: Wyatt Russell, Kerry Condon, Amélie Hoeferle, Gavin Warren
• Director: Bryce McGuire

The producing team behind M3GAN, which kick started the 2023 box office, was behind Night Swim. This new horror movie didn't cause the same kind of buzz, dubbed "Rotten" on Rotten Tomatoes and coming in second at the box office in its opening weekend.

The Beekeeper

• Released: January 12
• Cast: Jason Statham, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Josh Hutcherson, Bobby Naderi, Minnie Driver, Phylicia Rashad, Jeremy Irons
• Director: David Ayer

The latest Jason Statham action movie, The Beekeeper was a relatively well received "B" movie (get it?). In it, Statham stars as a retired operative of a secretive government organization meant to operate outside the normal structures to do what is right. However, when someone close to him is scammed by a large phishing operation, he goes on a rampage to get justice.

The Book of Clarence

• Released: January 12 (US); January 19 (UK)
• Cast: LaKeith Stanfield, Omar Sy, Anna Diop, RJ Cyler, David Oyelowo, Michael Ward, Alfre Woodard, Teyana Taylor, Caleb McLaughlin, Eric Kofi-Abrefa, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, James McAvoy, Benedict Cumberbatch
• Director: Jeymes Samuel

The biblical epic came back in 2024, but with a bit of a twist. The Harder They Fall director Jeymes Samuel re-teamed with LaKeith Stanfield and a great ensemble for The Book of Clarence, telling the story of a man who sees the power and influence Jesus of Nazareth has gathered and wants it, though using a few shortcuts.

Read WTW's The Book of Clarence review.

Mean Girls

• Released: January 12 (US); January 19 (UK)
• Cast: Angourie Rice, Auli’i Cravalho, Reneé Rapp, Jaquel Spivey, Avantika, Bebe Wood, Christopher Briney, Jenna Fischer, Busy Philipps, Tina Fey, Tim Meadows
• Director: Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr.

A new generation of Mean Girls hit the big screen in 2024, with a musical version of the teen classic, based on the Broadway production, brought fans back to high school to deal with the Plastics, first crushes and more. Rotten Tomatoes has critics giving the movie a "Fresh" score of 70%.

Founder's Day

• Released: January 19 (US)
• Cast: Naomi Grace, Devin Druid, Emilia McCarthy, Amy Hargreaves, Catherine Curtin, William Russ
• Director: Erik Bloomquist

Founder's Day brought another dose of horror to January at movie theaters. In this indie scarer, a small town is shaken by a series of ominous killings in the days leading up to a heated mayoral election. Critics were split on the movie, with it earning a 50% on Rotten Tomatoes.

I.S.S.

• Released: January 19 (US)
• Cast: Ariana DeBose, Chris Messina, Pilou Asbæk, John Gallagher Jr.
• Director: Gabriela Cowperthwaite

Ariana DeBose went from wishing on a star in Wish to flying amongst them in the sci-fi thriller I.S.S. DeBose and others star as a group of US astronauts who begin a mission at the International Space Station with their Russian colleagues. However, when a worldwide conflict breaks out, both groups are ordered by their countries to take the I.S.S., by any means necessary.

Read What to Watch's I.S.S. review.

Sunrise

• Released: January 19 (US)
• Cast: Guy Pearce, Alex Pettyfer, Kurt Yaeger, Crystal Yu, William Gao, Olwen Fouere
• Director: Andrew Baird

Sunrise is a different take on the vampire story that is hoping to intrigue movie fans. The story centers on a dark visitor that feeds on blood, who is returning to a small town where a crime was previously committed. However, after being shown kindness by some and hatred by others, will he choose redemption or revenge?

Which Brings Me to You

• Released: January 19 (US)
• Cast: Lucy Hale, Nat Wolff
• Director: Peter Hutchings

Rom-com indie movie Which Brings Me to You stars Lucy Hale and Nat Wolff. The two play strangers who meet at a wedding and decide to hook up, but instead they end up sharing their past romantic failings to try and figure out why they have been unlucky in love thus far. It could be a hidden gem for movie fans, with critics giving it a "Fresh" score on Rotten Tomatoes.

American Star

• Released: January 26 (US)
• Cast: Ian McShane, Nora Arnezeder, Thomas Kretschman
• Director: Gonzalo López-Gallego

Ian McShane goes from helping to facilitate John Wick's kills to becoming a hitman himself in American Star, an indie thriller. The story follows McShane's assassin on his final assignment on a remote island. However, when his target is delayed, he finds himself breaking protocol and forming connections with some of the locals.

Miller's Girl

• Released: January 26 (US)
• Cast: Martin Freeman, Jenna Ortega, Bashir Salahuddin, Gideon Adlon, Dagmara Domińczyk
• Director: Jade Halley Bartlett

Fan-favorites Martin Freeman and Jenna Ortega pair up for Miller's Girl, a sexy thriller that sees a questionable relationship form between a literary teacher and a talented student. Ortega has impressed in almost everything she's done, and she looks like a classic femme fatale in this one.

Read WTW's Millers' Girl review. Also get some additional insight into the movie in our interview with director Jade Halley Bartlett.

Sometimes I Think About Dying

• Released: January 26 (US)
• Cast: Daisy Ridley, Dave Merheje, Parvesh Cheena, Marcia Debonis, Meg Stalter, Brittany O'Grady
• Director: Rachel Lambert

Initially premiering back at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, Daisy Ridley's dark comedy Sometimes I Think About Dying sees her star as Fran, an introverted person who strikes up a relationship with the new employee in her office. But will Fran's personality allow her to have an honest connection?

Argylle

• Released: February 2
• Cast: Henry Cavill, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Rockwell, Samuel L. Jackson, Bryan Cranston, Catherine O'Hara, Dua Lipa, Ariana DeBose, John Cena
• Director: Matthew Vaughn

Matthew Vaughn previously subverted the spy genre with Kingsman: The Secret Service, but he's playing around with it again in Argylle, which follows a spy novelist (Bryce Dallas Howard) who inadvertently gets mixed up with an underground syndicate when her fiction novel approves to be more real than she knew.

Read WTW's Argylle review.

Scrambled

• Released: February 2 (US)
• Cast: Leah McKendrick, Ego Nwodim, Andrew Santino, Adam Rodriguez, Laura Cerón, Clancy Brown June Diane Raphael, Yvonne Strahovski
• Director: Leah McKendrick

Scrambled is a different kind of love story, one of self-acceptance. Scrambled sees a 30-something eternal bridesmaid, Nellie, confront her lack of romantic prospects and a doctor's warning about her future risk of having children by freezing her eggs. But this expensive process has its own challenges and forces her to confront past lovers, dreams and regrets.

Suncoast

• Released: February 2 (select US theaters); February 9 (streaming)
• Cast: Nico Parker, Woody Harrelson, Laura Linney, Ella Anderson, Daniella Taylor, Amarr, Ariel Martin
• Director: Laura Chinn

One of the first 2024 Sundance movies released to general audiences, Suncoast is a coming-of-age dramedy about Doris (Parker), who attempts to have some semblance of the normal teenage experience while also needing to help care for her ill mother. Harrelson and Linney headline the supporting cast, as an activist that Doris befriends and Doris' mother, respectively.

Read WTW's Suncoast review.

Drift

• Released: February 9 (US)
• Cast: Cynthia Erivo, Alia Shawkat, Ibrahima Ba, Honor Swinton Byrne, Zainab Jah, Suzy Bemba, Vincent Vermignon
• Director: Anthony Chen

After first premiering at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, the Cynthia Erivo-led drama Drift has arrived in US movie theaters (a limited release first, then a national rollout on February 16). Erivo plays a refugee who attempts to recover from the life she left with the help of a rootless tour guide (Shawkat).

Lisa Frankenstein

• Released: February 9 (US); March 22 (UK)
• Cast: Kathryn Newton, Cole Sprouse, Liza Soberano, Carla Gugino, Joe Chrest, Henry Eikenberry
• Director: Zelda Williams

Oscar-winning Juno screenwriter returned with the 80s'-enthused twist of the Frankenstein story, Lisa Frankenstein. Rising star Kathryn Newton (Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania) leads this comedy/horror/romance mashup that sees her titular character form a crush on a handsome, reanimated corpse.

Out of Darkness

• Released: February 9
• Cast: Safia Oakley-Green, Kit Young, Chuku Modu, Iola Evans, Arno Lüning, Luna Mwezi
• Director: Andrew Cumming

Out of Darkness takes audiences back 45,000 years ago, as it depicts a group that comes upon an challenging landscape that they intend to make their new home. However, they soon find out that they are not alone, as some kind on monster haunts the land and now them as well.

Bob Marley: One Love

• Released: February 14
• Cast: Kingsley Ben-Adir, Lashana Lynch, James Norton, Tosin Cole, Anthony Welsh, Michael Gandolfini, Umi Myers, Nadine Marshall
• Director: Reinaldo Marcus Green

With Hollywood's affinity for music biopics, getting one on Bob Marley was just a matter of time. Bob Marley: One Love shared the reggae legend's message of peace and love, with Kingsley Ben-Adir capturing the magnetic presence of Marley.

Read WTW's Bob Marley: One Love review.

Madame Web

• Released: February 14
• Cast: Dakota Johnson, Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Merced, Celeste O'Connor, Tahar Ramin, Mike Epps, Emma Roberts, Adam Scott
• Director: S.J. Clarkson

Sony is growing its web (pun fully intended) of Spider-Man off shoot projects in 2024, with the launch of Madame Web. Dakota Johnson plays the comic book character that can see the future and who must protect a group of young girls that are the target of a dangerous villain hoping to prevent them from fulfilling their futures as fellow superheroes. With only one Marvel Cinematic Universe movie hitting theaters this year, Madame Web is looking to help fulfill the superhero fanbase.

What About Love

• Released: February 14
• Cast: Andy Garcia, Sharon Stone, Marielle Jaffe, Miguel Angel Munoz, Jose Coronado, Maia Morgenstern, Ian Glen
• Director: Klaus Menzel

What About Love is a generational romance drama, focusing on the love of both a younger couple (played by Marielle Jaffe and Miguel Angel Munoz) and one of their parents (played by Andy Garcia and Sharon Stone).

Bleeding Love

• Released: February 16
• Cast: Ewan McGregor, Clara McGregor
• Director: Emma Westenberg

Real-life father and daughter Ewan and Clara McGregor star Bleeding Love, a road-trip drama that sees an estranged father and daughter forced to confront their issues and a drastic incident, meeting an array of eccentric characters along the way. Clara McGregor helped develop the story along with screenwriter Ruby Caster, while director Emma Westenberg makes her directorial debut with the movie.

Land of Bad

• Released: February 16
• Cast: Milo Ventimiglia, Russell Crowe, Liam Hemsworth, Ricky Whittle
• Director: William Eubank

Russell Crowe and Liam Hemsworth headlined Land of Band, a military drama where a Delta Force team is ambushed and in dire straits, relying on a seasoned drone operator to help them get home. The movie comes from Underwater and Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin director William Eubank.

Lights Outs

• Released: February 16
• Cast: Frank Grillo, Dermot Mulroney, Scott Adkins, Jamie King, Mekhi Phifer
• Director: Christian Sesma

Lights Out is an indie action movie that dives into the world of underground fighting, as an ex-soldier and an ex-con team up to dominate the ring. But soon enough they have both cops and criminals after them.

Drive-Away Dolls

• Released: February 23 (US); March 15 (UK)
• Cast: Margaret Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan, Beanie Feldstein, Pedro Pascal, Colman Domingo, Bill Camp, Matt Damon
• Director: Ethan Coen

After Joel Coen made his solo directing debut with The Tragedy of Macbeth in 2021, Ethan Coen has branched out on his own with Drive-Away Dolls, a road-trip comedy that finds two young women in need of a fresh start get mixed up in with a group of inept criminals. Ethan Coen goes back to the offbeat humor that has defined many of the Coen Brothers' movies to date.

Read our Drive-Away Dolls review.

Ordinary Angels

• Released: February 23 (US)
• Cast: Hilary Swank, Alan Ritchson, Nancy Travis, Tamala Jones, Drew Powell, Amy Acker, Skywalker Hughes, Emily Mitchell
• Director: Jon Gunn

Ordinary Angels is the inspirational true story of a hair-dresser struggling with sobriety who finds renewed purpose in helping a family with a little girl battling a life-threatening illness.

Wicked Little Letters

• Released: February 23 (UK), March 29 (US)
• Cast: Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Anjana Vasan, Gemma Jones, Malachi Kirby, Eileen Atkins, Timothy Spall
• Director: Thea Sharrock

The bizarre real-life scandal dubbed the "Seaside Mystery" and "Littlehampton Letters" gets its own movie adaptation with Wicked Little Letters, which features Oscar-winner Olivia Colman and Oscar-nominee Jessie Buckley in its main roles. The story revolves around a series of letters that caused a stir in the small community of Littlehampton, including the divulging of a potential murder suspect.

Dune: Part Two

• Released: March 1
• Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Charlotte Rampling, Stephen McKinnley, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Léa Seydoux, Souheila Yacoub, Christopher Walken
• Director: Denis Villeneuve

The next chapter in Denis Villeneuve's epic adaptation of Frank Herbert's Dune continues with Dune: Part Two. We had expectations that the sequel to the Oscar-winning sci-fi movie would have premiered in 2023, but better late than never. With the likes of Austin Butler, Florence Pugh and Christopher Walken joining an already star-studded cast, this is likely one of the biggest movies of the year.

Read our Dune: Part Two review.

Problemista

• Released: March 1 (expanding in subsequent weeks)
• Cast: Julio Torres, Tilda Swinton, RZA, Isabella Rossellini, Larry Owens, Catalina Saavedra, Greta Lee
• Director: Julio Torres

Julio Torres' directorial debut Problemista is now playing in movie theaters. The comedy writer pairs with Tilda Swinton for this unique story of an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador trying to make his dreams come true in New York, who is stuck working for an erratic art-world outcast who is his only hope to stay in the country.

Cabrini

• Released: March 8
• Cast: Cristiana Dell'Anna, John Lithgow, David Morse, Giancarlo Giannini
• Director: Alejandro Monteverde

The historical drama Carbini focuses on the true story of Mother Francesca Cabrini, an Italian Immigrant whose work in New York City to provide housing and health care for hundreds of orphaned children would help her one day be recognized as a saint.

Imaginary

• Released: March 8
• Cast: DeWanda Wise, Tom Payne, Taegen Burns, Pyper Braun, Veronica Falcon, Betty Buckley
• Director: Jeff Wadlow

While we got Seth MacFarlane's foulmouthed teddy bear Ted in a TV series this year, teddy bear Chauncey is here to scare us in Imaginary. This horror movie asks the questions, what happens when we forget about the imaginary friends we had when we were kids. The answer appears to be they get quite angry.

Kung Fu Panda 4

• Released: March 8 (US); releases March 28 in UK
• Cast: Jack Black, Violas Davis, Awkwafina, Dustin Hoffman, James Hong, Bryan Cranston, Ian McShane, Ke Huy Quan
• Director: Mike Mitchell and Stephanie Stine

Kung Fu Panda returns with the fourth movie in the animated franchise. Kung Fu Panda 4 is going to see Po having to take the next step in his journey, but threatening that is the villainous Chameleon, who can shape shift into any enemy from Po's past. Let's get ready for some more Kung Fu fighting.

Read our Kung Fu Panda 4 review.

Love Lies Bleeding

• Released: March 8 (US); releases May 3 in the UK
• Cast: Kristen Stewart, Katy O'Brian, Ed Harris, Dave Franco, Jena Malone, Anna Baryshnikov
• Director: Rose Glass

After making its debut at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, Love Lies Bleeding is now playing for general moviegoers. The 80s-set movie is the second effort from Saint Maud breakout Rose Glass. Here she tells a dark, violent revenge story headline by Kristen Stewart and Katy O'Brian.

Arthur the King

• Released: March 15 (US); March 22 (UK)
• Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Simu Liu, Nathalie Emmanuel, Ali Suliman, Paul Guilfoyle, Bear Grylls
• Director: Simon Cellan Jones

Be won over by another adorable pooch on the big screen, as Arthur the King recounts the inspiring story of a dog that bonded with an adventure racing team as they traveled 435 miles over 10 days. Mark Wahlberg, Simu Liu and Nathalie Emmanuel are among the human stars, but viewers are going to fall in love with the dog playing Arthur.

Read WTW's Arthur the King review.

The American Society of Magical Negros

• Released: March 15
• Cast: Justice Smith, David Alan Grier, An-Li Bogan, Drew Tarver, Michaela Watkins, Rupert Friend, Nicole Byer
• Director: Kobi Libii

The debut feature of writer/director Kobi Libii, The American Society of Magical Negroes is a bold first shot. The movie is a satire about a young man who is recruited into a secret society of magical Black people who dedicate their lives to making white people's lives easier.

DogMan

• Released: March 15 (US)
• Cast: Caleb Landry Jones, Jojo T. Gibbs, Christopher Denham, Clemens Schick, John Charles Aguilar, Grace Palma
• Director: Luc Besson

Luc Besson, the director of classics like The Professional and The Fifth Element, returns with the new movie DogMan, about a misfit (played by Caleb Landry Jones) that finds salvation through the love of his dogs. Read the DogMan reviews after it premiered at the Venice Film Festival if you want to get an idea of what people are saying.

French Girl

• Released: March 15
• Cast: Zach Braff, Evelyne Brochu, Luc Picard, Antoine Olivier Pilon, Isabelle Vincent, Charlotte Aubin, Muriel Dutil, William Fichtner, Vanessa Hudgens
• Directors: James A. Woods & Nicolas Wright

This indie rom-com (which is hitting digital on March 19 if it isn't available in theaters near you) follows a hopeless romantic, who finds his proposal plans thrown into chaos when his girlfriend is swept away to Quebec by a job offer at the Fairmont Le Château Frontenac from her ex, a sophisticated celebrity chef. Determined to keep their love alive, he leaves Brooklyn for her hometown, only to find himself hilariously out of his depth in attempting to charm her hard-to-impress, French-speaking family.

Knox Goes Away

• Released: March 15
• Cast: Michael Keaton, James Marsden, Al Pacino, Marcia Gay Harden
• Director: Michael Keaton

Michael Keaton directs himself and a solid cast of well-known actors in the indie-thriller Knox Goes Away. The movie is about a contract killer who is suffering from dementia offered an opportunity to redeem himself by saving his adult son, who he has an estranged relationship with.

One Life

• Released: January 1 (UK); March 15 (US)
• Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Lena Olin, Johnny Flynn, Helena Bonham Carter, Alex Sharp, Romola Garai
• Director: James Hawes

Based on the incredible true story, One Life details the work of Nicky Winton, a British stock broker who travels to Prague in the days before World War Two and takes on the mission of helping hundreds of children escape and find refuge in England.

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

• Released: March 22
• Cast: Paul Rudd, Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, McKenna Grace, Kumail Nanjiani, Patton Oswalt, Celeste O'Connor, Logan Kim, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts
• Director: Gil Kenan

Who you going to call? The new generation of Ghostbusters! Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is the sequel to Ghostbusters: Afterlife, which introduced a new quartet of ghost fighting heroes. But in this movie they will have to go up against a force that can literally scare people to death.

Read our Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire review.

Immaculate

• Released: March 22
• Cast: Sydney Sweeney, Simona Tabasco, Alvaro Morte, Benedetta Porcaroli
• Director: Michael Mohan

Sydney Sweeney continues her movie star rise, with Immaculate her second movie of 2024 following Madame Web. This time she stars in a horror movie as a woman of devout faith who comes to an illustrious covenant in the Italian countryside. But she soon learns that the covenant harbors dark and horrifying secrets.

Read our Immaculate review.

Sleeping Dogs

• Released: March 22
• Cast: Russell Crowe, Karen Gillan, Márton Csókás, Thomas M. Wright, Harry Greenwood, Tommy Flanagan
• Director: Adam Cooper

Russell Crowe stars as a former detective who is battling memory loss. But when he is called upon to solve a brutal murder he can't recall, things revealed about his forgotten past lead to a chilling truth.

Asphalt City

• Released: March 29 (US)
• Cast: Sean Penn, Tye Sheridan, Kali Reis, Michael Pitt, Mike Tyson
• Director: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire

Hop in the ambulance with Sean Penn and Tye Sheridan in Asphalt City, a drama that follows a young paramedic and the grizzled veteran he is paired with as they work the night shift in New York City.

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire

• Released: March 29
• Cast: Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, Kaylee Hottle, Dan Stevens, Fala Chen
• Director: Adam Wingard

Even after we got Monarch: Legacy of Monsters and Godzilla Minus One in 2023, there's more monster mayhem with Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. A direct sequel to Godzilla vs Kong, this movie reteams the two titans as a new forced threatens the world.

Read our Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire review.

Coup de Chance

• Released: April 5 (US)
• Cast: Lou de Laage, Niels Schneider, Melvil Poupaud
• Director: Woody Allen

Woody Allen's latest movie, Coup de Chance, was generating underground screenings and the sharing of questionable links, but the controversial filmmaker's 50th movie ultimately received a theatrical release in the US for one week before heading online. Starring an all French cast, the movie centers on a self-aware trophy wife who reconnects with an old chum, but her husband has a less than typical French response to the concept of extramarital affairs.

The First Omen

• Released: April 5
• Cast: Nell Tiger Free, Tawfeek Barhom, Sonia Braga, Ralph Ineson, Bill Nighy
• Director: Arkasha Stevenson

Horror franchise The Omen is going back to the very beginning in The First Omen. The movie takes place before Damien, instead focusing on a young American woman who travels to Rome to begin life of service to the church. However, she begins to question her faith when she uncovers a terrifying conspiracy with the goal of bringing about evil incarnate.

Housekeeping for Beginners

• Released: April 5
• Cast: Anamaria Marinca, Alina Serban, Samson Selim, Vladimir Tintor, Mia Mustafa, Dzada Selim, Sara Klimoska, Rozafë Çelaj, Ajse Useini
• Director: Goran Stolevski

Housekeeping for Beginners received a limited release in US movie theaters in April by Focus Features. From director Goran Stovelski, who earned strong praise for his movies You Won't Be Alone and Of An Age, tells the story of a mixed family forced to come together when Dita is forced to raise her girlfriend's two kids.

Monkey Man

• Released: April 5
• Cast: Dev Patel, Sharlto Copley, Sobhita Dhulipala, Pitobash, Vipin Sharma, Ashwini Kalsekar, Adithi Kalkunte, Sikandar Kher, Makarand Deshpande
• Director: Dev Patel

Inspired by the Indian legend Hanuman, Dev Patel has co-written, makes his directing debut and stars in Monkey Man. Seeking vengeance for his mother's murder and the continued systemic oppression of the poor and powerless, Patel's Kid finds his way into the sinister elite's circle and has his best chance ever to take them down.

Read WTW's Monkey Man review.

Arcadian

• Released: April 12
• Cast: Nicolas Cage, Jaeden Martell, Maxwell Jenkins, Sadie Soverall, Joe Dixon, Samantha Coughlan
• Director: Benjamin Brewer

Nicolas Cage is back on the big screen, as he stars in this post-apocalyptic thriller about a father and his twin sons trying to survive dangerous creature that in the night. Will this be another Nic Cage fan favorite or one of his more head scratching movie picks?

Civil War

• Released: April 12
• Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Nick Offerman, Cailee Spaeny, Wagner Moura, Stephen McKinley Henderson
• Director: Alex Garland

Alex Garland, the writer/director of critically acclaimed movies that thrill and make you think like Ex Machina, Annihilation and Men, is back with another movie, which explores the worst-case scenario for America's political discourse, a second civil war. Kirsten Dunst leads Civil War, which looks to be another exciting entry from Garland.

Read WTW's Civil War review.

Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead

• Released: April 12 (US)
• Cast: Jermaine Fowler, June Squibb, Simone Joy Jones, Nicole Richie, Ms. Pat, Olympian Gus Kenworthy, Donielle Tremaine Hansley, Miles Fowler, Iantha Richardson, Tyriq Withers
• Director: Wade Allain-Marcus

A remake of the 1991 movie of the same name, the new Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead is ramping things up a bit, as the movie has been given an R-rating (the original was rated PG-13).

Sasquatch Sunset

• Released: April 12 (US)
• Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Riley Keough, Christophe Zajac-Denek, Nathan Zellner
• Director: Davie Zellner & Nathan Zellner

Who's ready to get weird, because 2024 movies may not get any weirder than Sasquatch Sunset. The movie follows a year in the life of a family, the only thing is it's a family of sasquatches living in the wild. Big name stars Jesse Eisenberg and Riley Keough are unrecognizable as they don makeup to look like the legendary creatures.

Sting

• Released: April 12 (US); May 3 (UK)
• Cast: Alyla Browne, Penelope Mitchell, Ryan Corr, Jermaine Fowler
• Director: Kiah Roache-Turner

An all new creature feature is here to entertain audiences, as Sting center around a 12-year-old girl's pet spider, who transforms from a seemingly innocent, even charming pet to a giant, flesh-eating monster.

Abigail

• Released: April 19
• Cast: Melissa Barrera, Alisha Weir, Dan Stevens, Kevin Durand, Kathryn Networn, Angus Cloud, Will Catlett, Giancarlo Esposito
• Director: Radio Silence (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett)

Abigail, the latest movie from directing duo Radio Silence, focuses on a group of kidnappers that take the 12-year-old daughter of a powerful underworld figure in the hopes of collecting $50 million. However, this is no ordinary little girl.

Radio Silence has proven they are some of the best in the horror game right now with Ready or Not, Scream (2022) and Scream VI.

Hard Miles

• Released: April 19 (US)
• Cast: Matthew Modine, Sean Astin, Cynthia Kaye McWilliams, Jahking Guillory, Jackson Kelly, Damien Diaz, Zachary T. Robbins, Leslie David Baker
• Director: R.J. Daniel Hanna

Based on a true story, Hard Miles is about a prison social worker who takes a group of teenage convicts and forms a cycling team to compete in a 1,000-mile ride.

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

Directed by Guy Ritchie, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is a World War Two action-comedy loosely based on the true events described in the best-selling book of the same name by historian, Damian Lewis. Broadly, the movie tells the story of the first-ever special forces group established by the UK Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, and a select group of military officials (which also included James Bond creator, Ian Fleming) during the war. It features a massive, all-star cast, including Henry Cavill, Alan Ritchson, Eiza González, Henry Golding and Cary Elwes.

Read our The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare review.

Boy Kills World

• Released: April 26
• Cast: Bill Skarsgård, Jessica Rothe, Michelle Dockery, Famke Janssen, Sharlto Copley, Brett Gelman, Isaiah Mustafa, Andrew Koji, H. Jon Benjamin
• Director: Moritz Mohr

Bill Skarsgård was on the wrong side of a fight against Keanu Reeves in John Wick: Chapter 4, but now he is the relentless hero in Boy Kills World. In the action movie he stars as a deaf and mute man who is ought for revenge against the gangster that murdered his family. What makes this different than a movie like 2023's Silent Night, is that Skarsgård's character isn't voiceless to the audience, as H. Jon Benjamin (Archer) is voicing his inner thoughts, practically ensuring plenty of laughs.

Breathe

• Released: April 26
• Cast: Jennifer Hudson, Milla Jovovich, Quvenzhané Wallis, Raúl Castillo, Common, Sam Worthington
• Director: Stefon Bristol

Breathe is a sci-fi thriller set in a future where the Earth is left uninhabitable, forcing Maya and her daughter Zora to live underground, with trips to the surface only possible by a special suit developed by her deceased husband. However, when people claiming to know the truth about her husband's fate, Maya cautiously accepts them, only to learn they are not who they claim to be.

Cash Out

• Released: April 26
• Cast: John Travolta, Kristin Davis, Lukas Haas, Quavo
• Director: IVES

The heist thriller Cash Out starring John Travolta received a day-and-date release on the big screen and on digital (meaning it released in movie theaters in select locations, but also online ). The movie centers on a retired thief thrust into a hare-brained scheme to rob a bank by his younger brother. But things quickly go awry.

Challengers

• Released: April 26
• Cast: Zendaya, Mike Faist, Josh O'Connor
• Director: Luca Guadagnino

At long last, audiences can finally watch the sexy tennis thriller starring Zendaya, Challengers. The movie, the latest from Oscar-nominated director Luca Guardagnino, follows the relationship between three tennis players, who mix passion on and off the court. The movie's initial trailer, featuring a Beyond needle drop, certainly got people's attention.

Read WTW's Challengers review.

Unsung Hero

• Released: April 26
• Cast: Daisy Betts, Joel Smallbone, Kirrilee Berger, Jonathan Jackson, Lucas Black, with Candace Cameron Bure, Terry O’Quinn
• Director: Joel Smallbone, Richard L. Ramsey

Unsung Hero is based on the true story of how the band King + Country picked up roots from Australia and made their way to the US, relying on their faith and love of music to realize their dreams. A member of the family, Josh Smallbone, both co-directs and stars in the movie.

Evil Does Not Exist

• Released: May 3 (US)
• Cast: Hitoshi Omika, Ryo Nishikawa, Ryuji Kosaka, Ayaka Shibutani
• Director: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

After earning multiple Oscar nominations for his movie Drive My Car, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi returns with his next movie, Evil Does Not Exist. The movie centers on a community outside of Tokyo that learn that a "glamping" site is going to be constructed near them, which leads to tensions between the developers and the locals.

The Fall Guy

• Released: May 3
• Cast: Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, Hannah Waddingham, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Winstone Duke, Stephanie Hsu
• Director: David Leitch

Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt help kick off the summer blockbuster season with the action comedy The Fall Guy. Gosling plays a stunt man who is hoping to rekindle his romance with his director, played by Blunt. When the movie's star goes missing, it gives him the chance to do just that by tracking him down. Though he soon finds himself in a bigger conspiracy.

Read WTW's The Fall Guy review.

I Saw the TV Glow

• Released: May 3
• Cast: Justice Smith, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Ian Foreman, Helena Howard, Fred Durst, Danielle Deadwyler
• Director: Jane Schoenbrun

Well-regarded after its premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, I Saw the TV Glow hails from A24 and brings a unique spin to the horror genre from rising director Jane Schoenbrun. It's an interesting alternative to the more blockbuster fare that starts to roll out as summer arrives.

Tarot

• Released: May 3
• Cast: Jacob Batalon, Alana Boden, Adain Bradley, Avantika, Humberly González, Wolfgang Novogratz, Larsen Thompson, Harriet Slater, Olwen Fouéré
• Director: Spenser Cohen, Anna Halberg

Tarot sees a group of friends play with a deck of tarot cards, but soon after begin dying in the way that was predicted. Can they do anything to change their fate?

Wildcat

• Released: May 3 (US)
• Cast: Maya Hawke, Laura Linney, Vincent D'Onofrio, Cooper Hoffman, Philip Ettinger, Rafael Casal
• Director: Ethan Hawke

Ethan Hawke teams up with his daughter Maya Hawke to tell the story of author Flannery O'Connor. Specifically, Wildcat will focus on O'Connor's struggles to publish her first novel.

Gasoline Rainbow

• Released: May 10
• Cast: Tony Aburto, Micah Bunch, Nichole Dukes, Nathaly Garcia, Makai Garza
• Directors: Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross

From the directors of Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets, Gasoline Rainbow is another cinema verite-style story of five teenagers from a small town in Oregon who head out on a road trip as part of the end of their high school careers. Their goal, the Pacific coast some 500 miles away.

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

• Released: May 10
• Cast: Owen Teague, Freya Allan, Kevin Durand, Peter Macron, William H. Macy
• Director: Wes Ball

Andy Serkis' time with the Planet of the Apes movies may be over, but the franchise lives on with Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. The movie takes place several generations after the events of War for the Planet of the Apes, where a young ape undertakes a journey that could decide the fate of both apes and humans.

Read WTW's Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes review.

The Last Stop in Yuma County

• Released: May 10
• Cast: Jim Cummings, Jocelin Donahue, Sierra McCormick, Nicholas Logan, Michael Abbott Jr., Connor Paolo, Alexandra Essoe, Robin Bartlett, Jon Proudstar, Sam Huntington, Ryan Masson, Barbara Crampton, Gene Jones, Faizon Love, Richard Brake
• Director: Francis Galluppi

Hitting theaters then same day that it becomes available to watch online, The Last Stop in Yuma County is a modern western that sees a young knife salesman thrust into a hostage situation.

Poolman

• Released: May 10 (US)
• Cast: Chris Pine, Annette Bening, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Danny DeVito, John Ortiz, DeWanda Wise, Ray Wise
• Director: Chris Pine

Chris Pine makes his directorial debut with Poolman, a comedy mystery that sees also star as a hapless philosopher who discovers a plot to steal water from Los Angeles.

Babes

• Released: May 17 (US)
• Cast: Ilana Glazer, Simone Recasner, Hasan Minhaj, Stephan James, Oliver Platt, Sandra Bernhard
• Director: Pamela Adlon

Now that her critically acclaimed TV series Better Things has wrapped up, Pamela Adlon is taking her talents to the big screen, teaming up with Ilana Glazer for the new comedy Babes, which tells the story of a woman who becomes pregnant from a one-night stand and leans on her married best friend to guide her through.

Back to Black

• Released: May 17 (US); April 12 (UK)
• Cast: Marisa Abela, Jack O'Connell, Eddie Marsan, Lesley Manville
• Director: Sam Taylor-Johnson

Amy Winehouse was a powerhouse singer that was tragically lost at the age of 27. Her story is the subject of the new movie Back to Black, where she will be played by Industry star Marisa Asbela. Per the filmmakers, the movie "crashes through the looking glass of celebrity" as it chronicles Winehouse's rise to fame.

Read WTW's Back to Black review.

IF

• Released: May 17
• Cast: Ryan Reynolds, John Krasinski, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fiona Shaw, Steve Carrell, Alan Kim, Cailey Fleming, Louis Gossett Jr., Bobby Monihan, Matt Damon, Jon Stewart, Emily Blunt, Maya Rudolph, Awkwafina, Vince Vaughn, Sam Rockwell, Sebastian Maniscalco, Richard Jenkins, Christopher Meloni
• Director: John Krasinski

We've gotten multiple movies about imaginary friends in 2024, but IF is more wholesome experience than the horror movie Imaginary. John Krasinski directs an all-star cast in a story that follows a little girl that gains the ability to see and talk to all imaginary friends, many of whom have been forgotten. Star Ryan Reynolds described the movie as a "live-action Pixar film."

Read WTW's IF review.

The Strangers: Chapter 1

• Released: May 17
• Cast: Madelaine Petsch, Froy Guitierrez, Gabriel Basso, Ema Horvath
• Director: Renny Harlin

A reboot of the horror movie The Strangers from the 2000s, The Strangers: Chapter 1 is the first in a planned trilogy. It focuses on a young couple whose car breaks down and is forced to spend the night in a remote cabin, where they are terrorized by three masked strangers with no mercy and no motive.

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

• Released: May 24
• Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Alyla Browne, Tom Burke
• Director: George Miller

George Miller returned to the world of Mad Max, but this time for a movie entirely devoted to Mad Max: Fury Road breakout character Furiosa. Played by Charlize Theron in Fury Road, Anya Taylor-Joy steps in to play a younger Furiosa. But with Miller still behind the camera and Chris Hemsworth as the movie's new villain, another high-octane adventure was delivered with Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.

Read WTW's Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga review.

The Garfield Movie

• Released: May 24
• Cast: Chris Pratt, Samuel L. Jackson, Hannah Waddingham, Ving Rhames, Nicholas Hoult, Cecily Strong, Harvey Guillen, Brett Goldstein, Bowen Yang
• Director: Mark Dindal

Garfield, who hates Mondays but loves lasagna, got another movie. Unlike the previous two movies that mixed live action and animation, The Garfield Movie is fully animated, with Chris Pratt voicing the iconic character. Joining Pratt is Samuel L. Jackson voicing Garfield's father, who returns after Garfield has been adopted by Jon.

Hit Man

• Released: May 24 (select theaters)
• Cast: Glen Powell, Adria Arjona, Austin Amelio, Retta, Sanjay Rao, Molly Bernard, Evan Holtzman
• Director: Richard Linklater

Receiving a limited play in movie theaters before it premieres on Netflix a couple of weeks later, Hit Man is the latest movie from acclaimed director Richard Linklater and another starring role for Glen Powell, who also co-wrote the script with Linklater. The movie is a comedy based on the true story of a man who posed as a hit man to help police with sting operations, only to fall for one of the people he is supposed to be setting up. It earned rave reviews on the festival circuit over the last few months.

Ezra

• Released: May 31 (US)
• Cast: Bobby Cannavale, William Fitzgerald, Rose Byrne, Robert De Niro
• Director: Tony Goldwyn

Bobby Cannavale stars as stand-up comic Max, who raises his austic son alongside his ex-wife (Rose Byrne) and father (Robert De Niro). Ezra first premiered at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival, where we got some solid buzz, before releasing to audiences as part of the 2024 summer movie season.

The Dead Don't Hurt

• Released: May 31 (US)
• Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Vicky Krieps, Solly McLeod, Garret Dillahunt, Danny Huston
• Director: Viggo Mortensen

Viggo Mortensen wrote and directed his new western, The Dead Don't Hurt, which sees him star as a Dutch immigrant who begins a relationship with a French Canadian immigrant (Krieps) in 1860s US. But when the Civil War separates them, trouble arises on the homefront.

Robot Dreams

• Released: May 31
• Director: Pablo Berger

One of the five nominees for Best Animated Feature at the 2024 Oscars finally got a US release, as Robot Dreams arrived in movie theaters on May 31. The critically-acclaimed story is about a dog and robot, who form a fast friendship but unfortunately become separated.

Summer Camp

• Released: May 31
• Cast: Diane Keaton, Kathy Bates, Alfre Woodard, Eugene Levy, Beverly D'Angelo, Dennis Haysbert, Nicole Richie, Josh Peck
• Director: Castille Landon

Diane Keaton, Kathy Bates and Alfre Woodard head to camp, as the three screen legends star in the comedy Summer Camp as life-long friends hoping to keep their friendship going by revisiting the summer camp where they first met.

Young Woman and the Sea

• Released: May 31
• Cast: Daisy Ridley, Stephen Graham, Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Sian Clifford, Kim Bodnia, Christopher Eccleston, Glenn Fleshler
• Director: Joachim Rønning

Daisy Ridley stars in the inspirational sports drama Young Woman and the Sea, which chronicles Trudy Ederle's real-life pursuit of being the first woman to swim the 21-mile English Channel. The movie got such a strong reaction in test screenings that it was pulled from premiering exclusively on Disney Plus and given a theatrical release.

Bad Boys: Ride or Die

• Released: June 7
• Cast: Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig, Paola Núñez, Tasha Smith, Melanie Liburd, Eric Dane, Rhea Seehorn
• Director: Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah

Bad Boys for life indeed, as Will Smith and Martin Lawrence teamed up once again for the cop action franchise. Bad Boys: Ride or Die follows up Bad Boys for Life, and sees the pair have to deal with a conspiracy that frames their old boss and eventually them as well.

Read our Bad Boys: Ride or Die review.

I Used to Be Funny

• Released: June 7 (New York; expanding in subsequent weeks)
• Cast: Rachel Sennott, Olga Pesta, Jason Jones, Sabrina Jalees, Caleb Hearon, Ennis Esmer, Dani Kind
• Director: Ally Pankiw

Rachel Sennott has become an indie darling over the last few years with her roles in Shiva Baby, Bodies Bodies Bodies and Bottoms. Her latest see's her play a stand-up comedian struggling with PTSD who must decide if she should join the search for missing teenage girl that she used to nanny.

Tuesday

• Released: June 7 (limited in US)
• Cast: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Lola Petticrew, Arinze Kene
• Director: Daina O. Pusic

Julia Louis-Drefyus is primarily known for her comedy, but she gives a dramatic turn in the new movie Tuesday, as she plays the mother of a terminally ill teen when they both begin to see and interact with the spirit of Death, embodied by a large talking bird.

The Watchers

• Released: June 7
• Cast: Dakota Fanning, Georgina Campbell
• Director: Ishana Night Shymalan

There's a new Shymalan in Hollywood, as M. Night Shymalan's daughter Ishana Night Shymalan makes her directing debut with The Watchers (though she has previously directed episodes of The Servant). Based on a A.M. Shine book, The Watchers follows Mina, who stumbles upon an enclosure that serves as a kind of zoo for monstrous creatures that come out when the sun goes down.

FYI, in the UK/Ireland the movie is actually called The Watched.

Read our The Watchers ending explained piece if you need some additional context after watching the movie.

Firebrand

• Released: June 14
• Cast: Jude Law, Alicia Vikander, Eddie Marsan, Sam Riley, Simon Russell Beale, Erin Doherty
• Director: Karim Aïnouz

The period drama Firebrand sees Jude Law take on the king-sized role of Henry VIII, with Alicia Vikander starring as his final wife, Katherine Parr. The movie actually first screened at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, so it was a long wait for general audiences to get a look at it.

Inside Out 2

• Released: June 14
• Cast: Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Lewis Black, Liza Lapira, Tony Hale, Maya Hawke
• Director: Kelsey Mann

The thoughts inside your head are back on the big screen, as Pixar has released Inside Out 2. It's years later and young Riley is now a teenager. But with that comes new emotions that Joy (Poehler), Sadness (Smith), Anger (Black), Fear (Hale) and Disgust (Lapira) are going to have to learn to work with.

Read WTW's Inside Out 2 review.

The Bikeriders

• Released: June 21
• Cast: Austin Butler, Jodie Comer, Tom Hardy
• Director: Jeff Nichols

The Austin Butler and Tom Hardy movie The Bikeriders rode into movie theaters in the summer of 2024. The period drama was counter programming to action, animated and comedy movies that dominate the summer.

Read WTW's The Bikeriders review.

The Exorcism

• Released: June 21
• Cast: Russell Crowe, Ryan Simpkins, Sam Worthington, Chloe Bailey, Adam Goldberg, David Hyde Pierce
• Director: Joshua John Miller

It's just not a year at the movies unless we get an exorcism movie. The Exorcism stars Russell Crowe as an actor in a movie about performing an exorcism, only for the spiritual practice to be needed on set for real.

Janet Planet

• Released: June 21 (limited, expanding in subsequent weeks)
• Cast: Julianne Nicholson, Zoe Ziegler, Will Patton, Sophie Okonedo, Elias Koteas
• Director: Annie Baker

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker makes her feature writing and directing debut with the A24 movie Janet Planet. Led by Julianne Nicholson, the movie focuses on a mother and her 11-year-old daughter as they spend the summer together in rural Massachusetts, where the young girl's imagination is able to enthrall her and others.

Kinds of Kindness

• Released: June 21 (limited, expanding in subsequent weeks)
• Cast: Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Jesse Plemons, Hong Chau, Joe Alwy, Mamoudou Athie, Hunter Schaefer
• Director: Yorgos Lanthimos

Just a little more than seven months after their Oscar-winning collaboration Poor Things was released in movie theaters, Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos are back together in the movie Kinds of Kindness, with another all-star ensemble cast telling separate stories in this anthology movie.

Thelma

• Released: June 21
• Cast: June Squibb, Fred Hechinger, Richard Roundtree, Parker Posey, Clark Gregg, Malcolm McDowell
• Director: Josh Margolin

One of the hits from the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, Thelma is a different kind of action movie, one that stars 94-year-young Oscar-nominated actress June Squibb as the hero. Squibb plays an elderly woman who goes on a treacherous quest across the city to reclaim what was taken from her after she was duped in a phone scam.

Daddio

• Released: June 28 (US)
• Cast: Sean Penn, Dakota Johnson
• Director: Christy Hall

An indie darling of the summer season is Daddio, the debut movie for writer/director Christy Hall. Dakota Johnson stars as a woman who takes a cab from JFK Airport and strikes up a deep conversation with her cab driver, played by Sean Penn.

Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1

• Released: June 28
• Cast: Kevin Costner, Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Jena Malone, Abbey Lee, Michael Rooker, Danny Huston, Luke Wilson, Isabelle Fuhrman, Jeff Fahey, Will Patton, Tatanka Means, Owen Crow Shoe, Ella Hunt, Jamie Campbell Bower
• Director: Kevin Costner

The movie that (allegedly) brought an end to Yellowstone. Between the hit TV show and his Best Picture-winning movie Dances with Wolves, Kevin Costner is no stranger to a big western, but he took it to another level with the scope of Horizon: An American Saga, which explores the lure of the Old West in not just one movie, but two, though when we are going to get Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 2 now is a bit of a mystery.

Read WTW's Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1 review.

A Quiet Place: Day One

• Released: June 28
• Cast: Lupita Nyong'o, Joseph Quinn, Djimon Hounsou
• Director: Michael Sarnoski

While A Quiet Place Part II showed what happened for the Abbott family the day the aliens arrived in a flashback scene, A Quiet Place: Day One dives deeper into their arrival on Earth, specifically in New York City. The movie follows a group of new characters (and one familiar one) as they must learn to survive as the aliens crash land and start causing havoc.

Despicable Me 4

• Released: July 3
• Cast: Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Pierre Coffin, Miranda Cosgrove, Steven Coogan
• Director: Chris Renaud

The Minions have had their fun with their own movies, but adult Gru made his big screen comeback in Despicable Me 4, with more wild antics from Gru and his family.

MaXXXine

• Released: July 5 (US); August 9 (UK)
• Cast: Mia Goth, Elizabeth Debicki, Moses Sumney, Michelle Monaghan, Bobby Cannavale, Halsey, Lily Collins, Giancarlo Esposito, Kevin Bacon
• Director: Ti West

The third entry in Ti West's horror trilogy that began with X and Pearl, MaXXXine transports the story to 1980s Hollywood, where adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx is on the verge of her big break, though her bloody past could derail it all. Mia Goth returns as the lone holdover the previous two movies, while a star-studded supporting cast joins her this time around.

Fly Me to the Moon

• Released: July 12
• Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum, Jim Rash, Ray Romano, Anna Garcia, Donald Elise Watkins, Noah Robbins, Colin Woodell, Nick Dillenburg, Christian Zuber, Woody Harrelson
• Director: Greg Berlanti

Fly Me to the Moon is a romantic-comedy starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum against the backdrop of the space race of the 1960s, as a marketing maven (Johansson) is brought in to boost NASA's image, including creating a fake moon landing just in case the real one doesn't go as planned (having some fun with the conspiracy theory).

Read our Fly Me to the Moon review.

Longlegs

• Released: July 12 (US)
• Cast: Nicolas Cage, Maika Monroe
• Director: Osgood Perkins

Maika Monroe stars as an FBI agent assigned an unsolved serial killer case with ties to the occult, with all signs pointing to Nicolas Cage being the killer. Longlegs has become a sleeper hit this year.

Sing Sing

• Released: July 12 (US); August 30 (UK)
• Cast: Colman Domingo, Clarence Maclin, Sean San José, and Paul Raci
• Director: Greg Kwedar

Oscar nominee Colman Domingo stars in the A24 drama Sing Sing, which is based on the real-life program that sees incarcerated men use Shakespeare to help in their rehabilitation. Starring alongside Domingo is Clarence Maclin, who is one of many former incarcerated actors that make their movie debut with Sing Sing.

Twisters

• Released: July 19
• Cast: Glen Powell, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Maura Tierney, Anthony Ramos, Sasha Lane, Kiernan Shipka, Brandon Perea, Daryl McCormack
• Director: Lee Isaac Chung

Twister got a reboot with the Twisters, a new entry to the natural disaster movie genre. Behind the camera is Minari director Lee Isaac Chung, who tackled a big-budget blockbuster for the first time, while rising stars Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones headline the Twisters cast.

Read our Twisters review.

The Good Half

• Released: July 23 (US)
• Cast: Nick Jonas, Brittany Snow, David Arquette, Alexandra Shipp, Matt Walsh, Elisabeth Shue
• Director: Robert Schwartzman

A special two-night screening for the movie The Good Half was shown by Fathom Events on July 23 and 25 in 900 US movie theaters. The movie stars Nick Jonas as a writer who travels back to Cleveland for his mother's funeral and reunites with his family and meets new friends as he is forced to come to terms with his past.

The Beast Within

• Released: July 26
• Cast: Kit Harrington, Ashleigh Cummings, James Cosmo
• Director: Alexander J. Farrell

Kit Harrington headlines the horror movie The Beast Within, which follows a young girl question her family's isolated life on a fortified compound deep in the English wilds after a series of strange events. When she opts to follow her parents on one of their secret late-night treks to the heart of the forest, she discovers something she is not prepare for.

Deadpool & Wolverine

• Released: July 26
• Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Jennifer Garner, Morena Baccarin, Brianna Hildebrand, Shioli Kutsuna, Rob Delaney, Karan Soni, Leslie Uggams, Matthew Macfayden, Emma Corrin
• Director: Shawn Levy

The Merc with the Mouth is back, as Ryan Reynolds once again dons the red suit to play Deadpool. That's not all though, as Hugh Jackman returns as Wolverine and Jennifer Garner is reprising her character Elektra from the original Daredevil movie. With Deadpool & Wolverine, they pulled out all the stops.

D

• Released: July 26; August 2 (UK)
• Cast: Izaac Wang, Joan Chen, Shirley Chen
• Director: Sean Wang

Sundance breakout Didi is an alternative to the big blockbusters of the summer, as Sean Wang's coming of age story follows a 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy who learns valuable lessons before going to high school, including how to skate, how to flirt and the importance of family.

Mothers' Instinct

• Released: July 26 (US)
• Cast: Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Anders Danielsen Lie, Josh Charles
• Director: Benoit Delhomme

Acting powerhouses Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain star in this period drama about two friends whose relationship is forever changed following an incident involving their children.

Harold and the Purple Crayon

• Released: August 2
• Cast: Zachary Levi, Zooey Deschanel, Lil Rel Howery
• Director: Carlos Saldanha

The beloved children's book Harold and the Purple Crayon received a movie adaptation in 2024. In it, an adult Harold decides that he wants to experience life in the real world, so he goes exploring with his purple crayon and his friends.

Trap

• Released: August 2 (US), August 9 (UK)
• Cast: Josh Harnett
• Director: M. Night Shyamalan

M. Night Shyamalan is back with his latest twisty thriller Trap. Josh Hartnett stars as a dorky dad just taking his daughter to the concert of her favorite pop star. But when he learns that the police have surrounded the arena he becomes concerned because his secret is at risk of being revealed: that he is the serial killer that they are looking for.

Read our Trap review.

Borderlands

• Released: August 9
• Cast: Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jack Black, Haley Bennett, Edgar Ramirez, Ariana Greenblatt
• Director: Eli Roth

While TV fans got an adaptation of Fallout in 2024, movie fans have their own massive video game adaptation on the way in Borderlands. Cate Blanchett and Kevin Hart lead a massive ensemble in the Eli Roth-directed movie, which sees various hunters head to a distant planet in search of advanced alien technology.

Cuckoo

• Released: August 9
• Cast: Hunter Schafer, Dan Stevens, Jessica Henwick, Marton Csokas
• Director: Tilman Singer

The horror/thriller Cuckoo centers on a teenage girl forced to move to with her family to a resort where things are not what they seem.

It Ends With Us

• Released: August 9
• Cast: Blake Lively, Brandon Sklenar, Jenny Slate, Justin Baldoni, Hasan Minhaj
• Director: Justin Baldoni

The best-selling novel from Collen Hoover is received a movie adaptation, with a star-studded cast that includes Blake Lively and 1923 breakout star Brandon Sklenar. After more than 90 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List, It Ends With Us fans got the chance to see the powerful romance drama play out on the big screen.

Read our It Ends With Us review.

Alien: Romulus

• Released: August 16
• Cast: Isabela Merced, Cailee Spaeny, Archie Renaux, David Jonsson, Aileen Wu, Spike Fearn
• Director: Fede Alvarez

The Alien franchise continues. Though Fede Alvarez took over as a director, Ridley Scott still served as a producer on Alien: Romulus. As for what movie fans can expect, a young cast is at the center of this sci-fi story, as they are the latest group to go against the infamous Xenomorph.

Read our Alien: Romulus review.

My Penguin Friend

• Released: August 16 (US)
• Cast: Jean Reno, Adriana Barraza
• Director: David Schurmann

Based on a true story, My Penguin Friend tells the story of a lonely fisherman who rescues a lost penguin and the pair's incredible friendship. A non-animated family movie to change things up a bit.

Rob Peace

• Released: August 16 (US)
• Cast: Jay Will, Mary J. Blige, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Camila Cabello
• Director: Chiwetel Ejiofor

Oscar-nominated actor Chiwetel Ejiofor made Rob Peace his second directorial outing, depicting a true story of a brilliant young man who does everything he can to fight for the freedom of his wrongly convicted father.

Between the Temples

• Released: August 23
• Cast: Jason Schwartzman, Carol Kane, Dolly De Leon, Caroline Aaron, Robert Smigel, Madeline Weinstein
• Director: Nathan Silver

After premiering at the Sundance Film Festival all the way back in January, indie comedy Between the Temples is now playing. Jason Schwartzman stars as a cantor in grief and struggling to find his voice when he comes across his old music teacher, Carla, who is seeking to convert to Judaism and wants to have her own Bat Mitzvah. Between the Temples is "Certified Fresh" on Rotten Tomatoes.

Blink Twice

• Released: August 23
• Cast: Channing Tatum, Naomi Ackie, Christian Slater, Simon Rex, Adria Arjona, Kyle MacLachlan, Haley Joel Osment, Geena Davis, Alia Shawkat
• Director: Zoë Kravitz

Zoë Kravitz got behind the camera and made her directorial debut with the psychological thriller Blink Twice. Naomi Ackie stars as a cocktail waitress who hits it off with a tech billionaire (Tatum) at a gala event and is invited for a dream vacation on his private island. However, the dream soon turns into a nightmare as something is amiss on the island.

Read WTW's Blink Twice review.

The Crow

• Released: August 23
• Cast: Bill Skarsgård, FKA twigs, Danny Huston, Laura Birn, Sami Bouajila and Jordan Bolger
• Director: Rupert Sanders

The Crow is a remake of the 90s comic book adaptation. In this updated telling of the story Bill Skarsgård plays Eric Draven, who sacrifices himself to save his love and becomes the Crow, mercilessly seeking revenge, traversing the worlds of the living and the dead to put wrong things right.

The Forge

• Released: August 23
• Cast: Karen Abercrombie, Priscilla C. Shirer, Cameron Arnett, Aspen Kennedy
• Director: Alex Kendrick

Another faith-based movie in 2024, The Forge comes from the team behind the likes of War Room, Overcomer and Courageous. In this latest story, a high school graduate learns that his life has a higher meaning then he could have ever known.

Greedy People

• Released: August 23 (US)
• Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Himesh Patel, Lily James, Tim Blake Nelson, Uzo Aduba, Simon Rex
• Director: Potsy Ponciroli

In Greedy People, the director of critically-acclaimed indie Old Henry tackles a dark crime comedy that sees two stumbling police officers attempt to cover up a murder in order to make off with a haul of cash.

Kneepcap

• Released: August 2 (US); August 23 (UK)
• Cast: Moglai Bap, Mo Chara, DJ Provai, Josie Walker, Michael Fassbender
• Director: Rich Peppiatt

A 2024 Sundance Film Festival selection, Kneecap follows an Irish rap group that performs in their native language in an act of rebellion and to keep their heritage alive, much to the dismay of many. The movie won the NEXT Audience Award and Sundance and is "Certified Fresh" on Rotten Tomatoes.

Strange Darling

• Released: August 23
• Cast: Willa Fitzgerald, Kyle Gallner, Barbara Hershey, Ed Begley Jr.
• Director: JT Mollner

One of the deep cuts releasing in select movie theaters to close out the summer is Strange Darling, a dark thriller from JT Mollner. The story depicts a one-night stand that spirals out of control as one of them is a serial killer on a murderous spree.

1992

• Released: August 30
• Cast: Ray Liotta, Scott Eastwood, Tyrese Gibson
• Director: Ariel Vromen

Set during the riots that occurred in Los Angeles following the verdict in the Rodney King case, 1992 depicts a shopkeeper that must save his son who gets caught in the chaos of that night. This movie serves as the final on-screen role for Ray Liotta.

Across the River and Into the Trees

• Released: August 30
• Cast: Liev Schreiber, Josh Hutcherson, Danny Huston, Matilda De Angelis, Sabrina Impacciatore
• Director: Paula Ortiz

This Ernest Hemingway's novel is getting turned into a movie. Across the River and Into the Trees follows is set in Venice post World War 2 and follows a US Army Colonel who after everything he has seen decides to treat news that he has an illness with indifference.

AfrAId

• Released: August 30
• Cast: John Cho, Katherine Waterston, Havana Rose Liu, Lukita Maxwell, Wyatt Linder, Isaac Bae
• Director: Chris Weitz

Following the success of M3GAN and the real-world surge of AI technology, Blumhouse has another horror movie where the technology is the big bad. AfrAId follows a family that is selected to test a new home device, AIA, meant to learn and assist with their needs. However, the more AIA learns the more she attempts to control and overly protect the family.

Slingshot

• Released: August 30 (US)
• Cast: Laurence Fishburne, Casey Affleck
• Director: Mikael Håfström

Laurence Fishburne and Casey Affleck star in this under-the-radar sci-fi movie about an astronaut struggling with his grip on reality as he is on a potentially suicidal mission to Saturn's moon, Titan.

The Wasp

• Released: August 30
• Cast: Naomie Harris, Natalie Dormer
• Director: Guillem Morales

After having not seen each other for years, Heather and Carla reunite to discuss an unexpected proposition: Carla will kill Heather's abusive husband. Together they meticulously plan the deed, but can they pull it off?

You Gotta Believe

• Released: August 30
• Cast: Luke Wilson, Greg Kinnear, Sarah Gadon, Molly Parker, Patrick Renna, Lew Temple
• Director: Ty Roberts

It's so many kids' dream to play in the Little League World Series, but for one team there was an even greater purpose to them reaching the annual baseball tournament — honoring one of their teammate's dying dad. You Gotta Believe tells the inspiring story of that team, with all the trimmings of being another inspirational sports story that wins over fans.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

• Released: September 6
• Cast: Michael Keaton, Winoa Ryder, Jenna Ortega, Catherine O'Hara, Monica Bellucci, Willem Dafoe, Justin Theroux
• Director: Tim Burton

Thirty-six years after Tim Burton and company first said Beetlejuice three times, the ghoul is back in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Michael Keaton reprises his role as Beetlejuice, as does Winoa Ryder as Lydia Deetz and Catherine O'Hara as Delia Deetz, with the newest member of then Deetz family, Astrid, played by Wednesday star Jenna Ortega. The original Beetlejuice is a classic, and reviews and box office suggest that this new one is a hit as well.

Read WTW's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice review.

The Front Room

• Released: September 6
• Cast: Brandy, Andrew Burnap, Neal Huff, Kathryn Hunter
• Director: Max Eggers & Sam Eggers

Another A24 2024 movie, The Front Room is a horror movie starring music icon/actress Brandy, who plays a pregnant woman that sees her life turn to hell when her mother-in-law moves in, who wants to get her hands on the child for unknown reasons.

His Three Daughters

• Released: September 6 (US movie theaters); September 20 (Netflix)
• Cast: Carrie Coon, Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen
• Director: Azazel Jacobs

The trio of Carrie Coone, Elizabeth Olsen and Natasha Lyonne star as three sisters that reconnect when they all arrive in New York to care for their ailing father, and eventually mend their broken relationships. His Three Daughters is getting a limited run in movie theaters before it debuts on Netflix.

I'll Be Right There

• Released: September 6
• Cast: Edie Falco, Jeannie Berlin, Kayli Carter, Charlie Tahan, Bradley Whitford, Michael Rapaport, Michael Beach
• Director: Brenda Walsh

The Sopranos star Edie Falco headlines I'll Be Right There, a comedy where she plays a mom who puts everyone else's needs before her own, though when forced to come to terms with that, she acknowledges that she doesn't truly know what she wants to do with her own life.

The Critic

• Released: September 13
• Cast: Ian McKellen, Gemma Arterton, Mark Strong, Lesley Manville, Ben Barnes, Alfred Enoch, Beau Gadsdon
• Director: Anand Tucker

Ian McKellen returns to the big screen in the titular role of The Critic. McKellen plays a long-established and biting theater critic for London's The Daily Chronicle, but when his hard edge is challenged by a new regime he must fight to maintain his professional influence, leading him into a web of blackmail and deceit.

The Killer's Game

• Released: September 13
• Cast: Dave Bautista, Sofia Boutella, Scott Adkins, Terry Crews, Ben Kingsley
• Director: JJ Perry

Dave Bautista leads The Killer's Game, an action flick where he plays a hitman who after learning he has a terminal illness decides to put a hit out on himself to end his life. However, when he learns the diagnosis was wrong, he has to go up against the a slew of assassins that are targeting him, as well as his ex-girlfriend.

Speak No Evil

• Released: September 13
• Cast: Mackenzie Davis, James McAvoy, Scoot McNairy, Aisling Franciosi, Alix West Lefler, Kris Hitchen, Motaz Malhees
• Director: James Watkins

The latest in the US remakes of international horror movies, Speak No Evil is a Hollywood adaptation of the 2022 Dutch movie of the same name. The story focuses on a family invited to spend a weekend at a seemingly idyllic country house. However, the weekend soon turns into a psychological nightmare.

A Different Man

• Released: September 20 (US)
• Cast: Sebastian Stan, Renate Reinsve, Adam Pearson
• Director: Aaron Schimberg

In A Different Man, aspiring actor Edward undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance. But his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare, as he loses out on the role he was born to play and becomes obsessed with reclaiming what was lost. The movie has already earned Sebastian Stan an acting award from the Berlin International Film Festival.

Never Let Go

• Released: September 20
• Cast: Halle Berry, Percy Daggs IV, Anthony B. Jenkins, Matthew Kevin Anderson, Stephanie Lavigne
• Director: Alexandre Aja

A mix of horror and psychological thriller, Never Let Go stars Halley Berry as a mother who must protect her sons from an evil that has taken over the world. The only place that is safe is their home and the protective bond that they have for one another, meaning they must remained tethered at all times. But when one of the sons questions whether the evil is real, a fight for survival ensues.

Omni Loop

• Released: September 20
• Cast: Mary-Louise Parker, Ayo Edebiri, Hannah Pearl Utt, Chris Witaske, Carlos Jacott
• Director: Bernardo Britto

Omni Loop is the latest entry into the sci-fi subgenre of time loop movies (think Groundhog Day). Here, a quantum physicist who is dying (Parker) finds herself stuck in a week-long time loop, continuously trying to figure out not only how to break out, but to heal herself with the help of a gifted student (Edebiri). In addition to being released in select movie theaters, Omni Loop is also on digital on-demand.

The Substance

• Released: September 20
• Cast: Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid
• Director: Coarlie Fargeat

One of the buzziest movies of the year, The Substance is a body horror movie that sees Demi Moore attempt to recapture her youth with a new product, with unexpected and twisted results.

Read WTW's The Substance review.

Transformers One

• Released: September 20
• Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth, Jon Hamm, Keegan-Michael Key, Brian Tyree Henry, Laurence Fishburne
• Director: Josh Cooley

The Transformers franchise is returning to its animation roots with the origin story, Transformers One. The movie focuses on the relationship between Optimus Prime (voiced by Chris Hemsworth) and Megatron (Brian Tyree Henry), and how they went from friends to enemies.

Wolfs

• Released: September 20
• Cast: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Amy Ryan
• Director: Jon Watts

Ocean's Eleven stars George Clooney and Brad Pitt reunite in Wolfs, but this time as two lone-wolf fixers who get assigned to the same job. The movie got a limited exclusive run in movie theaters before it makes its debut on Apple TV Plus on September 27.

Amber Alert

• Released: September 27 (US)
• Cast: Hayden Panettiere, Tyler James Williams, Saidah Arrika Ekulona, Kevin Dunn
• Director: Kerry Bellessa

What would you do if you're in a ride share and soon realize that you're tailing a car that has been sited in the amber alert (kidnapped child). For Hayden Panettiere and Tyler James Williams, they can't sit by and decide to follow. That's where things get interesting in the thriller Amber Alert.

Bagman

• Released: September 27
• Cast: Sam Claflin, Antonia Thomas, Sharon D Clarke, Steven Cree, William Hope, Adelle Leonce, Peter McDonald, Henry Pettigrew, Caréll Rhoden, Will Davis
• Director: Colm McCarthy

Did your parents ever try and frighten you with the legend of the Bagman? Well his story comes to life in this new horror movie from director Colm McCarthy, as a parent (Sam Claflin) who nearly escaped the Bagman when he was a child now has to protect his family from the malevolent creature.

Lee

• Released: September 13 (UK); September 27 (US)
• Cast: Kate Winslet, Josh O'Connor,, Andrea Riseborough, Andy Samberg, Alexander Skarsgård, Marion Cotillard
• Director: Ellen Kuras

Oscar-winner Kate Winslet portrays photographer and acclaimed war correspondent Lee Miller in biopic Lee.

Read WTW's Lee review.

Megalopolis

• Released: September 27
• Cast: Adam Driver, Nathalie Emmanuel, Giancarlo Esposito, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Talia Shire, Jason Schwartzman, Chloe Fineman
• Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola has been trying to make Megalopolis for years, and he finally got to show it to audiences in 2024. The movie has received mix reviews, but one thing that people are not denying is that Coppola swung for the fences with his latest movie.

Read WTW's Megalopolis review.

My Old Ass

• Released: September 13 (US); September 27 (UK)
• Cast: Maisy Stella, Aubrey Plaza
• Director: Megan Park

The Aubrey Plaza comedy My Old Ass focuses on Elliott (Maisy Stella), who is visited by her older self (Plaza) and warned not to fall in love. But that'll be easier said than done when she actually meets the person that her older self was warning her about.

Read WTW's My Old Ass review.

Saturday Night

• Released: September 27 (expanding in subsequent weeks)
• Cast: Gabriel LaBelle, Dylan O'Brien, Cory Michael Smith, Rachel Sennott, Lamorne Morris, Nicholas Braun, Finn Wolfhard, Jon Batiste, Ella Hunt, Cooper Hoffman, Andrew Barth Feldman, Willem Dafoe, JK Simmons
• Director: Jason Reitman

As Saturday Night Live celebrates its 50th season, the history of the sketch comedy show is being told on the big screen. Saturday Night chronicles the chaotic 90 minutes before the first ever broadcast of Saturday Night Live. The movie received a limited release in Los Angeles and New York the day before Saturday Night Live season 50 debuted, while it will hit theaters everywhere in the US by October 11, 49 years to the day of the first SNL episode.

Read WTW's Saturday Night review.

The Wild Robot

• Released: September 27
• Cast: Lupita Nyong'o, Pedro Pascal, Catherine O'Hara, Bill Nighy, Kit Connor and Stephanie Hsu, with Mark Hamill, Matt Berry, Ving Rhames
• Director: Chris Sanders

A new animated adventure from DreamWorks, The Wild Robot features an all-star voice cast to tell the story of ROZZUM Unit 7134, or "Roz" for short. After Roz is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island, it must learn to adapt and make friends with the animals on the island.

Joker: Folie à Deux

• Released: October 4
• Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Brendan Gleeson, Catherine Keener, Jacob Lofland, Zazie Beetz
• Director: Todd Phillips

Joker was a very different kind of comic book movie. It earned rave reviews, set box office records and won Joaquin Phoenix an Oscar while telling a dark and violent story that seemed only loosely based on the comics that the Batman villain originally came from. Joker: Folie à Deux takes things a step furhter as Phoenix back to the role of the Joker with Lady Gaga joining with him to put her own spin on Harley Quinn.

Read WTW's Joker: Folie à Deux review.

The Outrun

• Released: October 4 (US); September 27 (UK)
• Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Stephen Dillane, Saskia Reeves, Paapa Essideu
• Director: Nora Fingscheidt

One of the best actors of her generation, Saoirse Ronan's new movie The Outrun see's her playing a woman who battles addiction and her past when she returns to her hometown in Scotland. The movie is based on the bestselling memoir by Amy Liptrot and has some buzz on being an Oscar contender this year.

Read WTW's The Outrun review.

The Radleys

• Released: October 4
• Cast: Damian Lewis, Kelly Macdonald, Harry Baxendale, Bo Bragason, Jay Lycurgo, Siân Phillips and Shaun Parkes
• Director: Euros Lyn

Damian Lewis and Kelly Macdonald sink their teeth into the new vampire flick The Radleys, where they play parents who have hid their true nature from their kids, but one their daughter ends up killing someone they must protect their family. Part of that involves calling in the kids' uncle (Lewis again, pulling double duty in the movie).

The Apprentice

• Released: October 11 (US); October 18 (UK)
• Cast: Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong, Maria Bakalova
• Director: Ali Abbasi

The Apprentice focuses on a young Donald Trump (played by Sebastian Stan) as he is taken under the wing of infamous New York lawyer Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong). Unsurprisingly, the movie has been a lightning rod for people on both sides of the political spectrum, but people can now see it for themselves.

Piece by Piece

• Released: October 11 (US); November 8 (UK)
• Cast: Pharrell Williams, Gwen Stefani, Kendrick Lamar, Timbaland, Justin Timberlake, Busta Rhymes, Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg
• Director: Morgan Neville

The story of musician Pharrell Williams is told in the documentary Piece by Piece, but it's not your typical doc. The story of Williams' life and career is going to be depicted entirely in LEGOs.

The Silent Hour

• Released: October 11 (US, limited)
• Cast: Joel Kinnaman, Sandra Mae Frank, Mekhi Phifer, Mark Strong
• Director: Brad Anderson

In The Silent Hour, Joel Kinnaman stars as a Boston police who after an accident on the job now suffers from hearing loss. However, this makes him the only one who can help a deaf witness when the killers she saw return to silence her.

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

• Released: October 11 (US); November 1 (UK)
• Directors: Ian Bonhôte & Peter Ettedgui

Superman flew back into theaters this year. Not James Gunn's new Superman movie, but rather Christopher Reeve, arguably the most iconic actor to don the cape. Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story is a documentary that tracks the actors rise to stardom and his life following a nearly fatal horse-riding accident that left him paralyzed.

Terrifier 3

• Released: October 11
• Cast: David Howard Thornton, Lauren LaVera, Samantha Scaffidi, Elliott Fullam, Jason Patric
• Director: Damien Leone

Fans are getting more of the horror franchise that reportedly made people pass out in movie theaters, as Art the Clown is back at it in Terrifier 3. Now he's taking over another holiday, as the movie is set to be a Christmas horror movie.

We Live in Time

• Released: October 11 (US)
• Cast: Andrew Garfield, Florence Pugh
• Director: John Crowley

Oscar nominees Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh star as a couple whose journey is the center of the movie We Live in Time. Told through snapshots of their life together, audiences are going to see the young stars fall in love but be rocked by a difficult truth. The movie arrives in 2025 for UK audiences.

Read WTW's We Live in Time review.

Anora

• Released: October 18 (US limited); November 1 (UK)
• Cast: Mikey Madison, Yuriy Borisov, Mark Eydelshteyn
• Director: Sean Baker

The 2024 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or winner (the first US movie to win the honor since 2011) is widely viewed as an Oscar contender this year. From Sean Baker, the director behind Tangerine and The Florida Project, Anora is about a young sex worker who gets to enact her own Cinderella story when she meets the son of a Russian oligarch, though his family has a few objections to their relationship.

Rumours

• Released: October 18 (US); December 6 (UK)
• Cast: Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander, Charles Dance, Denis Ménochet, Rolando Ravello, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Roy Dupuis, Takehiro Hira, Zlatko Buric
• Director: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson

What do you get when you mix a G7 conference with zombies? Rumours. The new movie is a political satire starring Cate Blanchett and Alicia Vikander as a group or world leaders forced to prove they can handle a crisis when one breaks out in the form of the undead.

Smile 2

• Released: October 18
• Cast: Naomi Scott, Rosemarie DeWitt, Kyle Gallner, Lukas Gage, Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Peter Jacobson, Raúl Castillo, Dylan Gelula, Ray Nicholson
• Director: Parker Finn

Putting new meaning to a creepy smile, the 2022 horror movie Smile became a surprise hit. So no surprise, we got Smile 2. Naomi Scott stars as the new main character, a pop star that begins to be haunted by the mysterious smile that brings death alongside it.

Conclave

• Released: October 25 (US); November 15 (UK)
• Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Isabella Rossellini
• Director: Edward Berger

Conclave takes us inside that only few get to see: the Vatican as they embark on selecting a new pope; however, the process becomes even more complicated when a conspiracy that could shake the foundation of the Catholic Church. The movies is the latest from the acclaimed director of All Quiet on the Western Front.

Read WTW's Conclave review.

Venom: The Last Dance

• Released: October 25
• Cast: Tom Hardy, Juno Temple Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rhys Ifans, Peggy Lu, Alanna Ubach, Stephen Graham
• Director: Kelly Marcel

Venom: The Last Dance is the final chapter in Sony and Tom Hardy's Venom movies. the anti-hero is back, but this time he is on the run as military forces look to capture him. But that's not all, other symbiotes from Venom's home planet are arriving on Earth and are likely going to make a big mess of things.

Blitz

• Released: November 1
• Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Elliott Heffernan, Paul Weller
• Director: Steve McQueen

Oscar-winner Steve McQueen directs his first narrative feature since 2018 with the World War 2 drama Blitz. The story centers around a 9-year-old boy who goes missing during then Nazi bombing campaign of London and his mother's search for him.

Read WTW's Blitz review.

Here

• Released: November 1 (US)
• Cast: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Paul Bettany, Kelly Reilly, Michelle Dockery
• Director: Robert Zemeckis

It's a Forrest Gump reunion 30 years later. Robert Zemeckis, Tom Hanks and Robin Wright are starring in the new movie Here together, which is a multi-generational story about different families and the special place they inhabit.

Read WTW's Here review.

Juror No. 2

• Released: November 1
• Cast: Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, J.K. Simmons, Zoey Deutch, Chris Messina, Gabriel Basso, Leslie Bibb, Kiefer Sutherland
• Director: Clint Eastwood

Legendary filmmaker Clint Eastwood keeps rolling at 94 years young, as he directed the new courtroom thriller Juror No. 2, which centers on the titular juror (played by Nicholas Hoult), who is dealing with a severe moral dilemma that could sway the outcome of the murder trial he is sitting on.

A Real Pain

• Released: November 1 (US, limited)
• Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Kieran Culkin, Will Sharpe, Jennifer Grey, Kurt Egyiawan, Liza Sadovy, Daniel Oreskes
• Director: Jesse Eisenberg

Sundance breakout A Real Pain is the second directorial effort from Oscar-nominated actor Jesse Eisenberg, this movie sees him star alongside Succession's Kieran Culkin as two mismatched cousins who travel to Poland to honor their beloved grandmother and explore their family history.

Lost on a Mountain in Maine

• Released: November 1
• Cast: Luke David Blumm, Caitlin Fitzgerald, Paul Sparks, Ethan Slater
• Director: Andrew Boodhoo Kightlinger

Sylvester Stallone produces this based on a true story tale of survival about a young boy who gets separated from his family (as the title makes clear) on a mountain in Maine. As a massive search takes place, the boy must attempt to survive the harsh conditions.

Small Things Like These

• Released: November 1 (UK), November 8 (US)
• Cast: Cillian Murphy, Emily Watson, Michelle Fairley, Eileen Walsh
• Director: Tim Mielants

Cillian Murphy's first movie since winning Best Actor for Oppenheimer is the drama Small Things Like These, where he plays a coal merchant working to support his family that discovers a dark secret about the local convent. Murphy is once again being praised for this performance, as is Oscar-nominee Emily Watson as one of the nuns at the convent.

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

• Released: November 8
• Cast: Judy Greer, Pete Holmes, Molly Belle Wright, and Lauren Graham
• Director: Dallas Jenkins

Barbara Robinson's Christmas family book and play is being made into a movie (for the second time), as The Best Christmas Pageant Ever will help make the festive season in 2024. The movie comes from the creator of The Chosen, who here will tell the story of a group of "the worst kids in the history of the world" as they put on a Christmas pageant at their church.

Heretic

• Released: November 1 (UK); November 8 (US)
• Cast: Hugh Grant, Sophie Thatcher, Chloe East
• Directors: Scott Beck and Bryan Woods

After years of the loveable lead of romantic comedies, Hugh Grant is relishing in playing some bad guys. Heretic sees him play a really bad guy, who traps two young missionaries in his home and puts them through a psychological test around their beliefs. Another A24 movie from this year that had many fans excited.

Paddington in Peru

• Released: November 8 (UK); January 17, 2025 (US)
• Cast: Ben Whishaw, Hugh Bonneville, Emily Mortimer, Imelda Staunton, Madeleine Harris, Samuel Joslin, Jim Broadbent, Olivia Colman, Antonio banderas, Carla Tous
• Director: Dougal Wilson

Everyone's favorite bear returns with Paddington in Peru. As the title suggests, the movie is going to pick up its London roots from the first two movies and take place mainly in Peru and along the Amazon rainforest.

Red One

• Released: November 15
• Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Chris Evans, Lucy Liu, Kiernan Shipka, Bonnie Hunt, Kristofer Hivju, Nick Kroll, Wesley Kimmel, J.K. Simmons
• Director: Jake Kasdan

Christmas arrived early for movie fans, as The Rock and Captain America teamed up to save Santa Claus in the action comedy Red One.