I’m from Florida originally, and intense heat and humidity are conditions I’m all too familiar with — but now that I live in New York, the winters are long and stupid, and summer is something I genuinely look forward to. I daydream about all the tiny outfits I will wear, imagining my future self going to the beach, eating ice cream, and maybe even eating ice cream on the beach in a tiny outfit.

Of course, Summer has its drawbacks. Beaches are more crowded, ice cream melts faster, and sunburns are real. Half the time, it’s so hot outside that the most appealing option is to head straight to a movie theatre and settle in for 2+ blissful hours of powerful central AC. Unfortunately, shitty movies tend to ruin my bliss, and summer has a lot of those.

So many of “summer’s” biggest films technically premiere in spring and then linger in theatres for months, making the summer itself a bit of a dead zone when it comes to exciting new films to look forward to. It’s a season with a reputation for being chock-full of showy, expensive, and deeply terrible movies, and while that reputation is mostly deserved, I’m here to share five films premiering this summer that I’m actually really excited about. As a bonus, I’m gonna talk some shit about the ones that look bad, too, because what’s would a blog post be without a little light-hearted negativity? Written by someone else, probably.