The 10 Best Movies in Theaters Right Now (2024)

June welcomed the summer with movies from different genres, which, along with some of May's biggest hits, can be enjoyed in theaters right now. 2023 was a big year for cinema after a couple of tough years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with massive box-office successes like Barbie and Oppenheimer, and critically acclaimed stories like Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon. 2024 also has various highly-anticipated movies coming up, of which some can be currently enjoyed in theaters.

June brought some of the most exciting movies of the year, such as the fourth Bad Boys movie, the horror movie Watchers, Pixar's Inside Out 2, the drama movie The Bikeriders, and the action comedy Thelma. This week, accompanying these and some of May's most popular releases, are Yorgos Lanthimos' latest movie, a prequel to A Quiet Place, a Western by Kevin Costner, a drama movie starring Dakota Johnson, and a psychological drama about a cult.

10 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.

9 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

Runtime

100 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.

8 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.

7 Daddio

Daddio was released on June 28, 2024

Daddio

R

Director

Christy Hall

Release Date

September 1, 2023

Cast

Dakota Johnson , Sean Penn , Marcos A. Gonzalez , Shannon Gannon

Runtime

101 Minutes

Daddio is a drama film written and directed by Christy Hall. Daddio follows a young woman who takes a cab back to her apartment in Manhattan after landing at JFK International Airport. During the ride, she and the cab driver end up having honest and personal conversations about their past and present relationships, loss, sex and power dynamics, vulnerability, and more. Daddio premiered at the 50th Telluride Film Festival in 2023.

You can read Screen Rant’s Daddio review here.

6 A Sacrifice

A Sacrifice was released on June 28, 2024

A Sacrifice is a psychological drama directed by Jordan Scott and based on the 2015 novel Tokyo, by Nicholas Hogg. It’s the story of psychiatrist Ben Monroe, who is investigating a case of collective suicide as part of a cult. Meanwhile, his teenage daughter, Mazzy, meets a mysterious but charismatic local boy who introduces her to the city’s underground party scene and gradually brings her into the cult her father has been investigating.

5 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.

4 The Exorcism

The Exorcism was released on June 21, 2024

The Exorcism (2024)

R

Director

Joshua John Miller , M.A. Fortin

Release Date

June 7, 2024

Cast

Russell Crowe , Ryan Simpkins , Chloe Bailey , Sam Worthington , adam goldberg , David Hyde Pierce

Runtime

93 Minutes

The Exorcism is a supernatural horror movie directed by Joshua John Miller. The Exorcism is the story of Anthony Miller, a troubled actor whose mental health begins to deteriorate while filming a horror movie. This leads his daughter, Lee, to suspect that her father’s past of substance-use disorder might be causing him trouble again, but there could also be a more sinister, supernatural cause behind it.

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

3 Thelma

Thelma was released on June 21, 2024

Thelma (2024)

PG-13

Director

Josh Margolin

Release Date

January 18, 2024

Cast

June Squibb , Fred Hechinger , Richard Roundtree , Parker Posey , Clark Gregg , Malcolm McDowell

Runtime

97 Minutes

Thelma is a comedy film written and directed by Josh Margolin. It’s the story of Thelma Post, a 93-year-old grandmother who falls into the trap of a scammer and loses $10,000. When the police prove to be useless in investigating this issue, Thelma, with the help of a friend and his motorized scooter, goes on a wild journey across Los Angeles to reclaim what was taken from her, while her family looks for her everywhere.

You can read Screen Rant’s Thelma 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.