July is here, and we’re officially heading into the dog days of summer and the sweltering vibes that come with it. There’s no better time to beat the heat than by heading to a nice, air-conditioned theater, and this month offers a lot for those headed to the movies. This month brings two huge original movies squaring off, Tom Cruise doing Tom Cruise things, plenty of horror, and more.

Here are all the wide-release movies coming to theaters in July 2023. Get tickets here.

Insidious: The Red Door – Release Date: Friday, July 7

Cast: Ty Simpkins, Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Andrew Astor, Hiam Abbass, Peter Dager, Sinclair Daniel, AJ Dyer, Jaylin Loveday, Jarquez McClendon

Director: Patrick Wilson

In Insidious: The Red Door, the horror franchise’s original cast returns for the final chapter of the Lambert family’s terrifying saga. To put their demons to rest once and for all, Josh (Patrick Wilson) and a college-aged Dalton (Ty Simpkins) must go deeper into The Further than ever before, facing their family’s dark past and a host of new and more horrifying terrors that lurk behind the red door.

Joy Ride – Release Date: Friday, July 7

Cast: Stephanie Hsu, David Denman, Ashley Park, Desmond Chiam, Annie Mumolo, Chris Pang, Sherry Cola, Isla Rose Hall, Alexander Hodge, Nicholas Carella

Director: Adele Lim

Joy Ride is the hilarious and unapologetically explicit story of identity and self-discovery centers on four unlikely friends who embark on a once-in-a-lifetime international adventure. When Audrey’s business trip to Asia goes sideways, she enlists the aid of Lolo, her irreverent, childhood best friend who also happens to be a hot mess; Kat, her college friend turned Chinese soap star; and Deadeye, Lolo’s eccentric cousin. Their no-holds-barred, epic experience becomes a journey of bonding, friendship, belonging, and wild debauchery that reveals the universal truth of what it means to know and love who you are.

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One – Release Date: Wednesday, July 12

Cast: Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Mariela Garriga, Henry Czerny

Director: Christopher McQuarrie

In Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Tom Cruise returns as Ethan Hunt. This time, he and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, and dark forces from Ethan’s past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than his mission – not even the lives of those he cares about most.

Theater Camp – Release Date: Friday, July 14

Cast: Molly Gordon, Ben Platt, Noah Galvin, Jimmy Tatro, Patti Harrison, Ayo Edebiri, Nathan Lee Graham, Owen Thiele, Alan Kim, Alexander Bello

Directors: Molly Gordon, Nick Lieberman

The original comedy Theater Camp revolves around Amos and Rebecca-Diane – lifelong best friends and drama instructors at a rundown camp in upstate New York. When clueless tech-bro Troy arrives to run the property (into the ground), Amos, Rebecca-Diane and production manager Glenn band together with the staff and students, staging a masterpiece to keep their beloved summer camp afloat.

Oppenheimer – Release Date: Friday, July 21

Cast: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey, Matt Damon, Rami Malek, Florence Pugh, Benny Safdie, Michael Angarano, Josh Hartnett, Kenneth Branagh

Director: Christopher Nolan

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a spectacle, a tense and epic thriller that thrusts audiences into the pulse-pounding paradox of the enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world in order to save it. J. Robert Oppenheimer is the architect of the Manhattan Project, and as he and his team race to build the world’s first atomic bomb, he has to grapple with the fact that what he’s about to unleash will change the world forever – and in terrible ways.

Barbie – Release Date: Friday, July 21

Cast: Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera, Kate McKinnon, Michael Cera, Ariana Greenblatt, Issa Rae, Rhea Perlman, Will Ferrell, Ana Cruz Kayne, Simu Liu, John Cena

Director: Greta Gerwig

In Barbie, to live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis – like Barbie, who suddenly starts to question her perfectly perfect, perfectly polished existence. She resolves to set out into the real world and discovers Ken has stowed away in her car. Now, Barbie must navigate the messiness of reality. And Ken’s there, too. We guess.

Cobweb – Release Date: Friday, July 21

Cast: Lizzy Caplan, Woody Norman, Cleopatra Coleman, Antony Starr

Director: Samuel Bodin

Eight-year-old Peter is plagued by a mysterious, constant tap, tap from inside his bedroom wall – a tapping that his parents insist is all in his imagination in Cobweb. As Peter’s fear intensifies, he believes that his parents (Lizzy Caplan and Antony Starr) could be hiding a terrible, dangerous secret and questions their trust. And for a child, what could be more frightening than that?

Haunted Mansion – Release Date: Friday, July 28

Cast: LaKeith Stanfield, Tiffany Haddish, Owen Wilson, Danny DeVito, Rosario Dawson, Chase W. Dillon, Dan Levy, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jared Leto, Winona Ryder

Director: Justin Simien

Inspired by the classic theme park attraction, Haunted Mansion follows a woman and her son, who enlist a motley crew of so-called spiritual experts to help rid their home of supernatural squatters. While the Disney movie isn’t going to be a pure horror movie, it has the potential to provide a few spooky thrills for kids in between the laughs.

Sympathy for the Devil – Release Date: Friday, July 28

Cast: Nicolas Cage, Joel Kinnaman, Kaiwi Lyman, Cameron Lee Price, Burns Burns, Rich Hopkins, Nancy Good, Alexis Zollicoffer

Director: Yuval Adler

Nic Cage returns to another gritty, quirky thriller with Sympathy for the Devil. After being forced to drive a mysterious passenger at gunpoint, a man finds himself in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse where it becomes clear that not everything is as it seems.

Talk To Me – Release Date: Friday, July 28

Cast: Sophie Wilde, Joe Bird, Alexandra Jensen, Otis Dhanji, Marcus Johnson, Alexandria Steffensen, Zoe Terakes, Chris Alosio, Ari McCarthy

Directors: Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou

When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand in Talk to Me, they become hooked on the new thrill. However, with the potential for spirits to possess their bodies, there are certain rules that must be followed. It’s simply a fun, daring game for them – until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.

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