What's coming to theaters and streaming from May to August

Ethan Hunt's last mission? A new Superman? Happy Gilmore as a dad? Three genre-spanning Pedro Pascal movies, including a romance, a superhero movie and an A24 Ari Aster thriller? Hollywood is pulling out the stops this summer movie season, which kicks off with the release Marvel's "Thunderbolts (asterisk)" on May 2.

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May also brings big studio releases like a live-action "Lilo & Stitch," "Mission: Impossible 8" and a new Wes Anderson film. June heats up with race cars in "F1," adventure in "How to Train Your Dragon," zombies in "28 Years Later" and a New York love triangle with Dakota Johnson's matchmaker in the middle in "Materialists." July is supercharged with "Jurassic World Rebirth," "Superman" and "Fantastic Four: The First Steps." And August closes out the season with comedies, big ("The Naked Gun") and dark ("The Roses"), horror ("Weapons") and a lighthearted bodyswap ("Freakier Friday").

Here's The Associated Press' guide to help make sense of the many, many options in theaters and at home.

May movie releases May 1

"Another Simple Favor" (Prime Video, streaming): Chill those martini glasses, Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick reunite with their "A Simple Favor" director Paul Feig for this Italy-set sequel.

May 2

"Thunderbolts" (Disney, theaters): Marvel's antiheroes Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) and Red Guardian (David Harbour) kick off the summer movie season in superhero style.

"It's a group of misfit toys that have been essentially thrown away at the beginning of the movie and have to figure out if they can work together to get themselves out of that mess," director Jake Schreier told the AP.

(Read AP's review.) "Bonjour Tristesse" (Greenwich Entertainment, theaters): Chloë Sevigny and Claes Bang star in this new adaptation of Françoise Sagan's lusty, stylish coming of age novel about a playboy father and his teenage daughter (Lily McInerny) on the French Riviera.

"Pavements" (Utopia, theaters): Alex Ross Perry takes an experimental approach to the traditional music biopic in his portrait of the indie rock group Pavement that's better experienced than described.