Last summer, we had the whole Barbenheimer thing, and, brother, did we need it.

The COVID pandemic was technically over at that point, but its specter was still very much present. Turns out, the twin bill of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” was just the lure to get moviegoers back into theaters.

Now, this summer, Hollywood has committed to returning in full force, too. The result? The most “normal” summer movie season we’ve seen since 2019.

Want a good Western? Kevin Costner is back with his four-part epic “Horizon: An American Saga,” the first two chapters arrive within weeks of each other this summer.

Want a good family film? There’s “Inside Out 2,” “Despicable Me 4” and (pinch me) “Harold and the Purple Crayon.”

Want New Orleans cinema? We’ve got Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Kinds of Kindness” and Richard Linklater’s “Hit Man.”

What action? Want horror? Want drama? Want comedy? You’ll find tastes of each below in my annual summer movie preview, highlighting more than 60 movies expected in theaters and on streamers between now and Labor Day.

As always, release dates are subject to change, but that’s normal, too — and “normal” has rarely felt better.

Roll ’em …

This week

“Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” (20th Century Studios): The rebooted sci-fi franchise gets a fourth installment, this time set 300 years after 2017’s “War of the Planet of the Apes,” at a time in which humans have devolved into a feral state and apes have further evolved into the world’s dominant species.

Also new: the Tyler Perry spoof “Not Another Church Movie” (Briarcliff Entertainment); the nature documentary “Living with Leopards” (Netflix); the Brooke Shields rom-com “Mother of the Bride” (Netflix); Chris Pine’s directing debut “Poolman” (Vertical Entertainment), an L.A.-set comedy mystery; and the horror thriller “Tarot” (Sony), in which a group of friends unleash a malevolent force.

Week of May 17

“IF” (Paramount): John Kraskinski writes, directs and co-stars in a family fantasy blending live-action and animation to tell the story of a young girl who gains the ability to see other people’s imaginary friends. Ryan Reynolds co-stars.

Also new: the Amy Winehouse biopic “Back to Black” (Focus Features); the buzzy horror film “I Saw the TV Glow” (A24); the policing documentary “Power” (Netflix); the horror/siege thriller “The Strangers: Part 1” (Lionsgate); and the animated family comedy “Thelma the Unicorn” (Netflix).

Week of May 24

“Furiosa: A Mad Max Story” (Warner Bros.): The latest installment in George Miller’s dystopian action series is a stand-alone spinoff starring Anya Taylor Joy as a kidnapped young Furiosa determined to find her way home amid a world of brutal war.

Also new: the sci-fi actioner “Atlas” (Netflix), pitting a brainy Jennifer Lopez against a renegade robot; the aviation documentary “Blue Angels” (MGM/Amazon); the animated comedy “The Garfield Movie” (Columbia Pictures), featuring the comic-strip cat; Richard Linklater’s New Orleans-shot comedy “Hit Man” (Netflix), which opens May 24 in select theaters before streaming on Netflix starting June 7; and “Gasoline Rainbow” (Mubi), a Ross brothers documentary following a group of Oregon teens on one last high school road trip.

May 31

“A Quiet Place: Day One” (Paramount): The “Quiet Ones” series gets a third installment, this one an origin story starring Lupita Nyong’o as a New York woman struggling to survive amid the invasion of the space aliens that started it all.

Also new: the drama “1992” (Lionsgate), set amid that year’s L.A. riots; the World War II documentary “The Commandant’s Shadow” (Warner Bros.), about one man’s attempts to come to grips with his father’s Nazi legacy; the buddy comedy “Summer Camp” (Roadside Attractions), starring Diane Keaton, Kathy Bates and Alfre Woodard; and the biopic “Young Woman and the Sea” (Disney), about the first woman to swim the English Channel.

Week of June 7

“Bad Boys: Ride or Die” (Columbia Pictures): Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are back in the fourth installment in the buddy-cop action-comedy series, and this time, they’re on the run.

Also new: the history documentary “Mysteries of the Terracotta Warriors” (Netflix); the true-crime documentary “How to Rob a Bank” (Netflix); and the thriller “The Watchers” (Warner Bros.), about a woman stalked by mysterious creatures in a remote Irish forest.

Week of June 14

“Inside Out 2” (Disney/Pixar): The Oscar-winning animated comedy set inside the brain of an adolescent girl gets a sequel. This time, a new batch of anthropomorphized emotions — including Anxiety, Envy, Ennui and Embarrassment — join the party just in time for teenagerdom.

Also new: the animated action film “Ultraman Rising” (Netflix), based on the titanic Japanese superhero.

Week of June 21

“Kinds of Kindness” (Searchlight Pictures): New Orleans filmmaking gets the spotlight as Oscar-winning “Poor Things” filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos reteams with Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe — with Jesse Plemons, Margaret Qualley and Hong Chau joining the weirdness — for a locally shot triptych fable.

Also new: the documentary “Black Barbie” (Netflix), about three insiders’ impact on the iconic toy line; the feature documentary “Bread & Roses” (AppleTV+), chronicling the resistance of Afghan women against the Taliban; and the actioner “Trigger Warning” (Netflix), starring Jessica Alba as a Special Forces commando determined to clean up her small town.

Week of June 28

“Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1” (Warner Bros.): Kevin Costner writes, directs and stars in the first chapter of a four-part epic Western set during the Civil War and chronicling westward expansion, the second installment of which follows on Aug. 15.

Also new: the rom-com “A Family Affair” (Netflix), starring Nicole Kidman, Joey King and Zac Efron; the drama “Fancy Dance” (Apple), starring Lily Gladstone as an Indigenous American woman determined to find her missing sister; and the mother-daughter drama “Janet Planet” (A24).

Week of July 4

“Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F” (Netflix): Eddie Murphy reprises one of his most iconic roles in this fourth installment in the action-comedy series and the first since 1994. Judge Reinhold, Paul Reiser, Bronson Pinchot and Joseph Gordon-Levitt co-star.

Also new: the not-so-villainous supervillain Gru returns in the animated sequel “Despicable Me 4” (Universal); and director Ti West reteams with actor Mia Goth for “MaXXXine” (A24), a slasher film set in 1980s Hollywood.

Week of July 12

“Fly Me to the Moon” (Sony): Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum team up for an action-comedy set against the backdrop of NASA’s Apollo 11 moon mission.

Also new: Nicolas Cage is a serial killer in the horror thriller “Longlegs” (Neon).

Week of July 19

“Find Me Falling” (Netflix): New Orleans’ Harry Connick Jr. returns to romantic comedy, playing an aging rock star who finds more than he bargained for when he decides to hit reset by moving to Cyprus.

Also new: the daredevil documentary “Skywalkers: A Love Story” (Netflix); the disaster film “Twisters” (Universal), a 28-years-later stand-alone sequel to 1996’s “Twister”; and the comedy sequel “My Spy: Eternal City” (MGM Amazon), starring Dave Bautista, Kristen Schaal and Ken Jeong.

Week of July 26

“Deadpool & Wolverine” (Disney/Marvel): One of the most eagerly awaited films of the summer sees Hugh Jackman returning to the role of Wolverine to team up with Ryan Reynolds’ irreverent antihero character for another R-rated adventure.

Also new: Susan Sarandon, Bette Midler, Megan Mullally and Sheryl Lee Ralph join forces for the Key West-set friendship comedy “The Fabulous Four” (Bleecker Street).

Week of Aug. 2

Harold and the Purple Crayon” (Columbia Pictures): The imagination-rich children’s book becomes a movie in a blend of live-action and animation starring Zachary Levi and directed by Carlos Saldanha (“Ice Age,” “Ferdinand”).

Also new: the Doug Liman-directed heist comedy “The Instigators” (AppleTV+), starring Matt Damon, Casey Affleck and New Orleans’ Hong Chau; the mountaineering documentary “Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa” (Netflix); and the animated SpongeBob comedy “Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie” (Netflix).

Week of Aug. 9

“Borderlands” (Lionsgate): Eli Roth directs a sci-fi action-comedy based on the best-selling video game and starring Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jack Black and Jamie Lee Curtis as members of an unlikely team of mercenaries united for a high-stakes galactic rescue mission.

Also new: the romantic drama “It Ends With Us” (Sony), starring Blake Lively and based on the Colleen Hooper novel; and writer-director M. Night Shyamalan’s “Trap” (Warner Bros.), about a father and daughter who attend a pop concert that proves memorable for all the wrong reasons.

Week of Aug. 16

“Alien: Romulus” (20th Century Studios): Fede Álvarez directs the seventh film in the sci-fi horror series, set between the events of 1979’s “Alien” and 1986’s “Aliens,” and featuring a new cast of doomed space colonists.

Also new: the documentary “Daughters” (Netflix), about eight young women preparing for a daddy-daughter dance with their incarcerated fathers; Kevin Costner’s Western sequel “Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 2” (Warner Bros.); the action comedy “Jackpot” (Amazon Prime), starring Awkwafina and John Cena; and the spy comedy “The Union” (Netflix), starring Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry.

Week of Aug. 23

“The Crow” (Lionsgate): The dark, comics-based franchise is rebooted with Bill Skarsgård as the vengeance-minded title character.

Also new: Zoe Kravitz’s directing debut, “Blink Twice” (Amazon/MGM), about a cocktail waitress who unwisely accepts an invitation to a tech mogul’s private island; the faith-based drama “The Forge” (Sony/Affirm), about a high school graduate in search of purpose; the teen comedy “Incoming” (Netflix), about four freshmen hoping to make a splash at their first high school party; the nature documentary “The Secret Lives of Orangutans” (Netflix); and the space drama “Slingshot” (Bleecker Street), starring Casey Affleck as an astronaut trying to keep his grip on reality.

Week of Aug. 30

“Reagan” (ShowBiz Direct): Dennis Quaid stars in a COVID-delayed biopic about Ronald Regan’s ascendance from Midwestern kid to movie star to 40th president of the United States. Sean McNamara directs a film that also stars Jon Voight and Penelope Ann Miller.