2016 Summer Movie Preview: The 35 Must-See Movies

It’s not just superheroes hitting cineplexes in the coming months, though there are a lot of those, with the Avengers, Suicide Squad, and X-Men all springing (summering?) into action. We’ll also get plenty of spaceships (Star Trek Beyond, Independence Day: Resurgence), family fun (Finding Dory, The BFG), laughs (PopStar, Neighbors 2), scares (Lights Out, The Conjuring 2), and laughs and scares (Ghostbusters). Oh, and have we mentioned the farting corpse yet (Swiss Army Man)? Here’s our countdown of summer’s most exciting movie releases. —By Ethan Alter, Jen Cheney, Marcus Errico, Steve Korn, Kerrie Mitchell, and Kevin Polowy