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Published:Monday | July 3, 2023 | 1:13 AM
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Margot Robbie arrives at a photo call for ‘Barbie’ at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles.
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Margot Robbie arrives at a photo call for ‘Barbie’ at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles.
Tom Cruise waves for photographers at the premiere of the film ‘Mission Impossible, Dead Reckoning Part One’ at the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
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Tom Cruise waves for photographers at the premiere of the film ‘Mission Impossible, Dead Reckoning Part One’ at the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
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The summer movie season will soon move into high-gear with the arrival of the seventh Mission: Impossible movie followed by the Oppenheimer and Barbie.

Here’s a guide to this summer’s new movies.

Joy Ride (Lionsgate, theatres): Adele Lim directs this raucous comedy about a friends trip to China to find someone’s birth mother, starring Ashley Park, Stephanie Hsu, Sherry Cola and Sabrina Wu.

Mission: Impossible-Dead Reckoning Part I (Paramount, theatres): Tom Cruise? Death-defying stunts in Venice? The return of Kittridge? What more do you need?

Oppenheimer (Universal, theatres): Christopher Nolan takes audiences into the mind of the “father of the atomic bomb”, J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) as he and his peers build up to the trinity test at Los Alamos.

Barbie (Warner Bros., theatres): Margot Robbie plays the world’s most famous doll (as do many others) opposite Ryan Gosling’s Ken in Greta Gerwig’s comedic look at their perfect world.

Stephen Curry: Underrated (Apple TV+): Peter Nicks directs a documentary about the four-time NBA champion.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (Paramount, theatres): This animated movie puts the teenager back in the equation with a very funny voice cast including Seth Rogen and John Cena as Bebop and Rocksteady.

Meg 2: The Trench (Warner Bros., theatres): Jason Statham is back fighting sharks.

Heart of Stone (Netflix): Gal Gadot played an intelligence operative in this action thriller, with Jamie Dornan.

Blue Beetle (Warner Bros., theatres): Xolo Maridueña plays the DC superhero Jaime Reyes/Blue Beetle in this original story.

Strays (Universal, theatres): Will Ferrell and Jamie Foxx voice dogs in this not-animated, R-rated comedy.

White Bird (Lionsgate, theatres): Helen Mirren tells her grandson, expelled from school for bullying, a story about herself in Nazi-occupied France.

The Equalizer 3 (Sony, theatres): Denzel Washington is back as Robert McCall, who is supposed to be retired from the assassin business, but things get complicated in Southern Italy.