From ‘Disclosure Day’ to ‘Toy Story 5’: 10 Massive Movies Hitting UK Cinemas This June

Charli xcx’s acting career is still in it infancy but the pop sensation-turned-thesp is already showing a keen eye for outré and experimental fare. She follows up a smaller role in 100 Nights of Hero with a lead role in Pete Ohs’s new indie, playing a woman who abandons her boyfriend to rediscover herself in the bars and clubs of Warsaw. Could it be Charli’s Lost in Translation? 

In cinemas Fri Jun 5

If nothing else, the Wayans’s enduring spoof franchise moves with the times. Back in 2000, it was mining broad laughs from slasher movies like I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream. Those movies are back, too, but the new Scary Movie will be planting its woopie cushion under the so-called elevated horrors of Jordan Peele, Ari Aster, Ryan Coogler and co. Anna Faris and Regina Hall will add comedic firepower to the joke-athon. 

In cinemas Fri Jun 5

Fresh from its BFI Flare premiere, this extrovert period piece stars It’s a Sin’s Callum Scott-Howells as one of history’s most incorrigible aristocrats, Henry Paget, the jewel-loving Marquis of Anglesey, and Rupert Everett as his mentor. Has director Celyn Jones crafted a kind of queer Downton Abbey from these opulent ingredients or something more out-there and subversive? 

In cinemas Fri Jun 5

Nothing says blockbuster season more than a new Steven Spielberg movie. The optimistic yin to War of the Worlds’ dark, post-9/11 yang, Disclosure Day imagines that the government knows about the existence of extra-terrestrial life and decides to share it with the world. He’s gathered a few of his favourite Brits for this one, including Emily Blunt, Josh O'Connor and Colin Firth. The truth will be out there on the second Friday of the month.

In cinemas Wed Jun 10

Five movies into the trilogy, Toy Story is back with all your old favourites and a few new characters to spice things up in Bonnie’s bedroom. This time, it’s an addictive tablet called Lilypad (voiced by Greta Lee) filling the Zurg gap as a very 2020s sort of villain. Get excited about the Conan O'Brien-voiced Smarty Pants and Alan Cumming as ‘Evil Bullseye’. Giddy up!

In cinemas Fri Jun 19

A César winner for best debut film, this French drama from Pauline Loquès comes with the strongest of bona fides and even comparisons with Agnès Varda’s New Wave masterpiece Cléo from 5 to 7. Canadian actor Théodore Pellerin is the 28-year-old Nino, a young man forced to face his mortality over a weekend in Paris. Expect tears and uplift in equal measures.

In cinemas Fri Jun 19

Canadian filmmaker Sophy Romvari’s first feature is being hailed as one of the best debuts of the year, if not the last few, but it’s hardly a kick-in-the-door moment. Quiet and searching, it’s a semi-autobiographical exploration of memory and regret, centred on a Hungarian immigrant family on Vancouver Island struggling to manage their eldest son’s emerging personality disorder. Arthouse patrons are advised to pay attention, as Romvari is a name you’ll be hearing frequently for years to come.

In cinemas Jun 26

About eight thousand painkillers, ice baths and bone fractures later, the Jackass crew will be be-dooiiiiiinnggg themselves into orbit in their last porta-potty in this franchise-ending fifth outing. Older but not necessarily wiser, Steve-O, Wee Man, Johnny Knoxville and co will be enduring penis shock collars and escape rooms from hell, while long-time director Jeff Tremaine tries to keep the camera steady amid all the corpsing. It’ll be emotional for everyone, apart from insurance execs.

In cinemas Jun 26

Now here’s someone who didn’t give up French after GCSE. Jodie Foster flaunts her second language as a Parisian psychologist in Rebecca Zlotowski’s French-language thriller. The Hitchcockian set-up has Foster blamed for the death of a patient by the woman’s grieving family. She’s forced to turn sleuth with some help from her ex (Daniel Auteuil) to find out what really happened. The Other People’s Children director hasn’t gone full whodunnit but crafted a mystery as brainy as her star. 

In cinemas Jun 26

Remember when Marvel vs DC was the biggest story in town? The heat may have gone out of that battle supreme but don’t count out a revival of sorts this year. Hoping for a hit to match last year’s $600 million Superman reboot, producer James Gunn seems to be borrowing from his own Guardians of the Galaxy playbook with a cosmic roadtrip movie that features a punky antihero (Milly Alcock), a furry sidekick and a galaxy of out-there aliens. 

In cinemas Jun 26