Fun Summer Films to Watch This June

Embrace summer with fun, poignant films, from movies perfect for Pride Month to adventures that will help kick off your vacation.

In the mood for a touching romance? | Of an Age

Writer-director Goran Stoleski’s Of An Age compresses the full range of love and loss in a single day. Set in Melbourne during the summer of 1999, 17-year-old Kol (Elias Anton) finds his life turned upside down when he meets Adam (Thom Green), the brother of the woman who works as his dance partner. Since Adam is slated to leave the country the next day, the two men have only a day together—chasing down Adam’s sister, talking about books they have read and plans they want to make. But in those 24 hours, something special happens as Kol experiences feelings that will linger long into the future. “Elias Anton and Thom Green will still steal hearts, with a central romance equally uplifting as it is heartbreaking,” Flickering Myth.

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In the mood for a master-class performance? | TÁR

In Todd Field’s TÁR, Cate Blanchett delivers a tour-de-force performance as Lydia Tár, a brilliant conductor whose unstoppable ambition threatens to overtake her life and dreams. Recently appointed the director of the Berlin Philharmonic, Tár appears to have it all—the respect of the international music community and the love of her wife (Nina Hoss). But when rumors of improper behavior appear, Tár’s perfectly orchestrated world falls apart. “The movie is breathtaking—in its drama, its high-crafted innovation, its vision,” Variety writes. “It’s a ruthless but intimate tale of art, lust, obsession, and power.”

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In the mood for an enduring love story? | Spoiler Alert

Based on Michael Ausiello’s acclaimed memoir, Michael Showalter’s Spoiler Alert recounts a love story that survives the unthinkable. Ausiello (Jim Parsons) finds his 14-year relationship with Kit Cowan (Ben Aldridge) impossibly altered when Cowan is diagnosed with a life-threatening disease. “This story resonated so much with me [because] it was such an authentic tale of what it is to just live your ordinary life—in extraordinary circumstances,” Parsons told the AV Club, “The movie tells a story about two lives: complicated, filled with both love and pain, but well and fully lived,” writes The Washington Post.

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In the mood for a Greek vacation | My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3

Pack your bags and join Toula (Nia Vardalos) and the whole Portokalos clan as they head for her homeland in Vardalos’ My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3. The franchise’s beloved characters, like Aunt Voula (Andrea Martin) and Angelo (Joey Fantone), return with Toula and her husband (John Corbett)  to visit their family’s ancestral village in Greece. For Slant, the film “luxuriates in the searing blue of the Ionian Sea and the lush forests of the Greek island of Corfu.” In addition to the classic locations, “My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 has some genuine laughs and a healthy dose of heart,” writes the Chicago Reader. 

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In the mood for an out-of-this-world experience? | Asteroid City

Set in 1955 in a one-motel desert town, Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City is a technicolor, eye-opening sci-fi treat. Gathered together for the Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention, a cast of characters—played by Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jason Schwartzman, Bryan Cranston, Jeffrey Wright, Steve Carell, Hope Davis, and Maya Hawke, among others—find their lives utterly changed by an unimaginable event. As this kaleidoscope of characters, coincidences, and perfectly stylized sets rearranges the fate of the citizens in Asteroid City, the film slowly reveals its mysteries. “The audacity and beauty of Asteroid City lie in the way it connects the mysteries of the human heart to the secrets of science and the universe,” writes New York Magazine.

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