1 Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (Opens Friday, June 30) “Please allow me to introduce myself/ I’m a man of wealth and taste/ I’ve been around for a long, long year”
2 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Opens Friday, June 2) I think we can trust these folks.
3 Elemental (Opens Friday, June 16) Pixar goes, well, elemental, in a city where the denizens of fire, water, land and air all live together. (I think we can trust these folks.)
4 Asteroid City (Opens Friday, June 16) Outlandish actors, assemble! Bring on Adrien Brody, Steve Carell, Hong Chau, Jarvis Cocker, Bryan Cranston, Willem Dafoe, Hope Davis, Matt Dillon, Rupert Friend, Jeff Goldblum, Tom Hanks, Maya Hawke, Scarlett Johansson, Edward Norton, Stephen Park, Tony Revolori, Margot Robbie, Jake Ryan, Liev Schreiber, Jason Schwartzman, Fisher Stevens, Tilda Swinton, Jeffrey Wright and Bob Balaban, all sheathed in the colorful finery of Milena Canonero.
5 The Flash (Opens Friday, June 16) Warner Bros. Discovery dumped a “Batgirl” movie that cost a reported $90 million to take a tax break; is Andy Muschietti’s “The Flash,” with troubled Ezra Miller really that good, or does a $200 million-plus budget finally make a film too big to fail for a modern conglomerate?
Ray Pride is Newcity’s Senior Editor and Film Critic. He is a contributing editor of Filmmaker magazine.
Ray’s history of Chicago Ghost Signs is planned for publication next year. Previews of the project are on Twitter and on Instagram. More photography on Instagram.
Film Top 5: January 2023 Epic movies at a single sitting, including "OUT 1," "Sátántangó" and "Dekalog"; two months of Billy Wilder movies in 35mm; and one creepy doll.
