40 Hottest Movies of Summer 2024: ‘Furiosa,’ ‘Twisters,’ and More

In a year where the season’s earliest blockbusters are underperforming, there is a beautiful, nostalgic scent hanging low in the air. Take a deep inhale, do you smell it? That’s potential.

While this summer promises your typical popcorn movie fare with animated favorites like Despicable Me 4 and Garfield, as well as franchise staples like Bad Boys: Ride or Die and the MCU’s summer staple Deadpool & Wolverine, we won’t be seeing as many exhausting cinematic regurgitations as we usually do when the temperatures start to peak. Instead, 2024 boasts plenty of original ideas to get butts in theater seats, starting with this month’s brazen and bold Furiosa, all the way to August’s Trap.

Of course, this summer will still have plenty of sequels and prequels, but even selections like Alien: Romulus and Twisters have plenty of potential. Writers and directors can feel audience fatigue, and have responded by giving rebooted intellectual property a jolt of much-needed electricity. Moviegoers exhausted? Throw in another xenomorph, or a second tornado. It might not seem like much, but when considered with the exciting slate of dramas, comedies, sci-fi, and horror, we’re in for one of the most exciting summer movie seasons in recent memory. Sorry, Barbenheimer!

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