Top 10 Must-See Summer Movies You Don’t Know About Yet

Avengers: Age of Ultron has Hulk-smashed its way through its first two weekends and is on track to be one of the year's most profitable pics, but there's much more at the multiplex than Marvel heroes this summer. In fact, looking at the lineup of reboots, sequels and slick blockbuster titles, 2015 is looking like one of the most sprawling summers for popcorn pleasures in ages. But what's really strange is how many of the most interesting titles have flown so far under the radar, dominated on social media by juggernaut films like Mad Max: Fury Road, Tomorrowland, Jurassic World and Ant-Man. Here are my picks for the 10 movies you might not yet know about - but that you absolutely have to carve out the time to see if you want to get the most out of your cinema trips this summer.

Isaac Feldberg

Published: May 11, 2015 01:47 pm

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10) Self/less (opens July 10, wide)

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The quote-unquote biggest movie on this list, The Cell director Tarsem Singh’s sci-fi thriller Self/less has attracted shockingly little buzz in the months leading up to its plum summer release. It stars Ben Kingsley as a wealthy man dying from cancer, who undergoes an experimental procedure to transfer his mind into the supposedly vacant body of a younger man (Ryan Reynolds). As the man begins to discover where his new body came from, he learns that he has entered into a partnership with a nefarious organization that will kill to protect itself.

Though most summer sci-fi offerings are veritable wastes of celluloid (see: Lucy, Transcendence), Ex Machina showed there’s still an appetite for fresh, creative stories in the genre, and Self/less has a story that could surprise us all equally.

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