Summer Movies 2023: Here’s What’s Coming to Theaters and Streaming
WHITE BIRD R.J. Palacio’s novel “Wonder” was adapted into a movie nearly six years ago. In this film, based on a follow-up book, the bully (Bryce Gheisar) of the first story learns about intolerance from his grandmother (Helen Mirren), a Holocaust survivor who shares her wartime experiences with him. Gillian Anderson also stars. Marc Forster directed. (Aug. 18 in theaters)
BEFORE, NOW & THEN The director Kamila Andini earned strong reviews at last year’s Berlin International Film Festival for this feature, in which a woman forges a connection with her dead husband’s mistress against the backdrop of extreme brutality in 1960s Indonesia. (Aug. 25 in theaters)
BOTTOMS Following up “Shiva Baby,” the director Emma Seligman and the actress Rachel Sennott reunite for a high school comedy they wrote in which two seniors (Sennott and Ayo Edebiri) start a fight club not because they want to pummel people, but because they think cheerleaders will swoon. (Aug. 25 in theaters)
BRIEF ENCOUNTERS Made in 1967 and banned in the Soviet Union, this early feature from the celebrated director Kira Muratova — born in Romania but generally identified as Ukrainian — is getting a formal American release only now. When it surfaced in New York in 2000, J. Hoberman described it in The New York Times as “a sardonic romantic triangle set in an all-too-recognizable social milieu of the casual shortages and shoddy apartments of professional-class Odessa.” (Aug. 25 in theaters)
GOLDA A heavily made-up Helen Mirren plays the Israeli prime minister Golda Meir during the Arab-Israeli war of 1973. Liev Schreiber appears as Henry Kissinger. Guy Nattiv directed. (Aug. 25 in theaters)
SCRAPPER A girl (Lola Campbell) is resourcefully getting by on her own after her mother’s death when her father (Harris Dickinson) returns. Charlotte Regan wrote and directed. (Aug. 25 in theaters)
Source: The New York Times
