The summer movie season is officially underway and this July will see a string of highly-anticipated films hit the big screen nationwide – including a Tom Cruise blockbuster, a real-life Barbie doll and Christopher Nolan’s latest!

Here’s a look at some of our top picks this month. Remember to visit www.odeon.co.uk to book and view all the latest film times – plus when booked online, tickets are just £5, all day, every day!

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ELEMENTAL (PG)

Release date: 7 July

You thought Romeo and Juliet had problems? Meet Ember and Wade: the fire and water elements whose love affair might literally evaporate.

INSIDIOUS: THE RED DOOR (15)

Release date: 7 July

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.

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – DEAD RECKONING PART ONE  (12A)

Release date: 10 July

In Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) 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.

BARBIE

Release date: 21 July

Eccentric and individualistic, Barbie is exiled from Barbieland because of her imperfections. When her home world is in peril, Barbie returns with the knowledge that what makes her different also makes her stronger.

OPPENHEIMER

Release date: 21 July

Written and directed by Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer is an IMAX®-shot epic thriller that thrusts audiences into the pulse-pounding paradox of the enigmatic man who created the atomic bomb. Starring Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the film follows the moral quandary that haunted Oppenheimer for life, after he created a weapon that could save the world, or, at the touch of a button, end it.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Release date: 31 July

After years of being sheltered from the human world, the Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers and be accepted as normal teenagers through heroic acts. Their new friend April O’Neil helps them take on a mysterious crime syndicate, but they soon get in over their heads when an army of mutants is unleashed upon them.

Film dates correct at time of posting. Imagery @ODEON CINEMAS.