The 10 Best Movies in Theaters Right Now (2024)

The summer of 2024 continues with some of this year's most exciting movies, and these, along with some of June's most popular releases, are now playing in theaters. 2023 was a big year for cinema after a couple of tough years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with massive, record-breaking box-office successes and critically acclaimed stories – and, luckily, this good streak continues this year. 2024 also has various highly-anticipated movies coming up, of which some can be currently enjoyed in theaters.

July started strong with the release of the latest installment in the Despicable Me franchise and Ti West's Maxxxine, the closing chapter in his X trilogy (for now, at least). Accompanying these and some of June's best releases, such as Inside Out 2 and Bad Boys: Ride or Die, are a horror movie starring Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage, and a romantic comedy-drama about the moon landing and the "back-up" NASA prepared for it.

10 Longlegs

Longlegs was released on July 12, 2024

Longlegs

R

Director

Oz Perkins

Release Date

July 12, 2024

Cast

Maika Monroe , Nicholas Cage , Alicia Witt , Blair Underwood

Runtime

101 Minutes

Longlegs is a horror thriller written and directed by Osgood Perkins. Set in the 1990s, Longlegs follows Lee Harker, a new FBI agent who is assigned to an unsolved case involving a Satanic serial killer known as “Longlegs”. The more Harker investigates and the more occult evidence is uncovered, the more complicated the case gets, and even more so when she realizes a personal link to the killer, prompting her to act fast to prevent another family murder.

You can read Screen Rant’s Longlegs review here.

9 Fly Me To The Moon

Fly Me To The Moon was released on July 12, 2024

Fly Me to the Moon (2024)

PG-13

Director

Greg Berlanti

Release Date

July 12, 2024

Cast

Scarlett Johansson , Woody Harrelson , Channing Tatum , Jim Rash , Ray Romano , Peter Jacobson , Joe Chrest , Colin Woodell

Fly Me To The Moon is a romantic comedy-drama directed by Greg Berlanti. Set in the 1960s, during the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union, Fly Me To The Moon chronicles the relationship between Cole Davis, the director in charge of the Apollo 11 launch, and Kelly Jones, a marketing specialist hired to fix NASA’s public image and “sell” the moon, but her plan includes staging a “back-up” fake moon landing. Fly Me To The Moon is an Apple Studios production, and will be available to stream on Apple TV+ at a still unknown date.

You can read Screen Rant’s Fly Me To The Moon review here.

8 Despicable Me 4

Despicable Me 4 was released on July 3, 2024

Despicable Me 4

PG

Director

Chris Renaud , Patrick Delage

Release Date

July 3, 2024

Cast

Steve Carell , Kristen Wiig , Miranda Cosgrove , Steve Coogan , Pierre Coffin , Joey King

Runtime

95 Minutes

prequel(s)

Despicable Me (2010) , Despicable Me 2 , Despicable Me 3

The Despicable Me franchise continues its expansion with a fourth movie, reuniting the audience with Gru, Lucy, Margo, Edith, Agnes… and the minions. Despicable Me 4 introduces the latest member of this one-of-a-kind family: Gru Jr., Gru and Lucy’s baby boy. When criminal Maxime Le Mal escapes from prison and he and his girlfriend, Valentina, seek revenge on Gru, the latter and his family are forced into relocation for their protection. As they get used to their new identities, home, and a “normal life”, Gru and his family are unable to escape conflict and adventure.

You can read Screen Rant’s Despicable Me 4 review here.

7 Maxxxine

Maxxxine was released on July 5, 2024

MaXXXine

R

Director

Ti West

Release Date

July 5, 2024

Cast

Mia Goth , Elizabeth Debicki , Moses Sumney , Michelle Monaghan , Bobby Cannavale , Lily Collins , Halsey , Giancarlo Esposito

Runtime

103 Minutes

Maxxxine is the third (and so far final) installment in Ti West’s X film series. Set in 1989 Los Angeles, Maxxxine reunites the audience with X’s survivor Maxine Minx, who continues to pursue her dreams of becoming a famous actress. As Maxine does her best to prove her talent outside adult films, she will also have to deal with unresolved family trauma, the aftermath of the Texas massacre in X, and the Night Stalker himself.

You can read Screen Rant’s Maxxxine review here.

6 Kinds of Kindness

Kinds of Kindness was released on June 21, 2024

Kinds of Kindness (2024)

Director

Yorgos Lanthimos

Release Date

June 21, 2024

Cast

Emma Stone , Jesse Plemons , Willem Dafoe , Margaret Qualley , Hong Chau , Joe Alwyn , Mamoudou Athie , Hunter Schafer

The latest project by Yorgos Lanthimos, Kinds of Kindness, is now in theaters. Kinds of Kindness is divided into three segments, beginning with “The Death of R.M.F”, following a man who wants to take charge of his destiny after breaking away from his powerful boss; then is “R.M.F. Is Flying”, in which a man suspects that his partner is an impostor when she returns after being missing; and “R.M.F. Eats a Sandwich”, about a cultist’s task to find a specific person with the ability to resurrect the dead.

You can read Screen Rant’s Kinds of Kindness review here.

5 A Quiet Place: Day One

A Quiet Place: Day One was released on June 28, 2024

A Quiet Place: Day One

PG-13

Director

Michael Sarnoski

Release Date

June 28, 2024

Cast

Lupita Nyong'o , Joseph Quinn , Alex Wolff , Djimon Hounsou , Eliane Umuhire

Runtime

99 Minutes

A Quiet Place: Day One is an apocalyptic horror movie directed by Michael Sarnoski and a spinoff and prequel to John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place. Set before the events of the first movie, A Quiet Place: Day One follows Sam, a woman who must survive an invasion in New York City by the bloodthirsty alien creatures with ultrasonic sound hearing introduced in the first movie. A Quiet Place: Day One is the third installment in the A Quiet Place movie series.

You can read Screen Rant’s A Quiet Place: Day One review here.

4 Horizon: An American Saga

Horizon: An American Saga was released on June 28, 2024

Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1

R

Director

Kevin Costner

Release Date

June 28, 2024

Cast

Kevin Costner , Sienna Miller , Sam Worthington , Luke Wilson , Giovanni Ribisi , Thomas Haden Church , Jena Malone , Abbey Lee , Michael Rooker , Danny Huston , Isabelle Fuhrman , Jeff Fahey , Will Patton , Tatanka Means , Ella Hunt , Jamie Campbell Bower

Runtime

181 Minutes

Horizon: An American Saga is a four-part epic Western directed by Kevin Costner. Horizon: An American Saga spans the four years of the Civil War, and depicts the expansion of the American West through the lens of families, friends, and foes as they attempt to discover the meaning of being Americans. Chapter 2 will be released on August 16, 2024, while Chapters 3 and 4 are in development.

3 The Bikeriders

The Bikeriders was released on June 21, 2024

The Bikeriders

R

Director

Jeff Nichols

Release Date

June 21, 2024

Cast

Jodie Comer , Austin Butler , Tom Hardy , Michael Shannon , Mike Faist , Norman Reedus

Runtime

116 Minutes

The Bikeriders is a crime drama movie directed by Jeff Nichols. Set in the 1960s, The Bikeriders tells the story of the Vandals MC, an outlaw motorcycle club led by Johnny. The film follows the rise and fall of the MC as seen through the lives of its members and their families, mostly Benny and his girlfriend, Kathy. What started as a surrogate family for local outcasts quickly turns into a violent organized crime group, threatening what the founder of the Vandals initially envisioned for it.

You can read Screen Rant’s The Bikeriders review here.

2 Inside Out 2

Inside Out 2 was released on June 14, 2024

Inside Out 2

PG

Director

Kelsey Mann

Release Date

June 14, 2024

Cast

Amy Poehler , Tony Hale , Maya Hawke , Liza Lapira , Lewis Black , Phyllis Smith , Diane Lane

Runtime

96 Minutes

Joy, Sadness, and the rest of Riley’s emotions are back in the long-awaited sequel to Pixar’s 2015 hit Inside Out. Directed by Kelsey Mann in his feature directorial debut, Inside Out 2 follows Riley, now a 13-year-old teenager, and her emotions Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust, as the headquarters of the emotions undergo a sudden demolition to make room for new emotions. The new group is led by Anxiety, and they arrive to change the already established dynamic of Joy and her friends.

You can read Screen Rant’s Inside Out 2 review here.

1 Bad Boys: Ride or Die

Bad Boys: Ride or Die was released on June 7, 2024

Bad Boys: Ride or Die

Director

Adil El Arbi , Bilall Fallah

Release Date

June 7, 2024

Cast

Will Smith , Martin Lawrence , Vanessa Hudgens , Alexander Ludwig , Paola Núñez , Eric Dane , Ioan Gruffudd , Tasha Smith

prequel(s)

Bad Boys (1995) , Bad Boys 2 , Bad Boys for Life

Detectives Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett are back on a new mission in the sequel to 2020’s Bad Boys For Life. Directed by Adil & Bilall, Bad Boys: Ride or Die follows Lowrey and Burnett as they investigate the corruption within the Miami PD when their late Captain Conrad Howard is accused of involvement with the Romanian Mafia. However, a deadly setup turns Lowrey and Burnett into fugitives, forcing them to work outside the law to solve this increasingly complex case.

You can read Screen Rant’s Bad Boys: Ride or Die review here.