Here are the five* June releases which I have rated a 4 or 5:
* May 27 update | I've just added three more films to this list: Call of the Wild; Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg; and Surveillance. All are in limited release.
UP | May 29
By tying thousands of balloon to his home, 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen sets out to fulfill his lifelong dream to see the wilds of South America. Right after lifting off, however, he learns he isn’t alone on his journey, since Russell, a wilderness explorer 70 years his junior, has inadvertently become a stowaway on the trip. Edward Asner, Christopher Plummer, Jordan Nagai
TETRO | June 11
Bennie travels to Buenos Aires to find his long-missing older brother, a once-promising writer who is now a remnant of his former self. Bennie's discovery of his brother's near-finished play might hold the answer to understanding their shared past and renewing their bond. Francis Ford Coppola (dir), Vincent Gallo, Alden Ehrenreich, Maribel Verdú
MOON | June 12
Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems. Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey (voice), Duncan Jones (dir)
THE TAKING OF PELHAM 1 2 3 | June 12
Armed men hijack a New York City subway train, holding the passengers hostage in return for a ransom, and turning an ordinary day’s work for dispatcher Walter Garbe into a face-off with the mastermind behind the crime. Denzel Washington, John Travolta, Tony Scott (dir)
CALL OF THE WILD | June 12 (limited)
When a wild hybrid wolf/dog shows up injured on her back porch one night, Ryann wants to take him back to Boston as a pet, but her grandfather knows the animal will eventually have to return to the wild. To help his granddaughter understand, he begins to read her Jack London’s “Call of the Wild” each night... but Ryann has ideas of her own, and helps a local boy train the magnificent animal to become a sled dog leader. Christopher Lloyd, Timothy Bottoms, Ariel Gade, Richar Gabia (dir)
YOO-HOO, MRS. GOLDBERG | June 16 (limited)
A documentary on television pioneer Gertrude Berg, the creator, principal writer, and star of “The Goldbergs,” a popular radio show for 17 years, which became television’s very first character-driven domestic sitcom in 1949. Berg received the first Best Actress Emmy in history, and paved the way for women in the entertainment industry. Christopher Lloyd, Timothy Bottoms, Ariel Gade, Richar Gabia (dir)
An eccentric New Yorker abandons his upper class life to lead a more bohemian existence. He meets a young girl from the south and her family and no two people seem to get along in the entanglements that follow. Woody Allen (dir), Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood
SURVEILLANCE | June 26 (limited)
It’s been a hell of a day on the highway. When Federal Officers Elizabeth Anderson and Sam Hallaway arrive at Captain Billing’s office, they have three sets of stories to figure out and a string of vicious murders to consider. Julia Ormond, Bill Pullman, Jennifer Chambers Lynch (dir)
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