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Top 10 Must-See Summer Movies You Don’t Know About Yet

Avengers: Age of Ultron has Hulk-smashed its way through its first two weekends and is on track to be one of the year's most profitable pics, but there's much more at the multiplex than Marvel heroes this summer. In fact, looking at the lineup of reboots, sequels and slick blockbuster titles, 2015 is looking like one of the most sprawling summers for popcorn pleasures in ages. But what's really strange is how many of the most interesting titles have flown so far under the radar, dominated on social media by juggernaut films like Mad Max: Fury Road, Tomorrowland, Jurassic World and Ant-Man. Here are my picks for the 10 movies you might not yet know about - but that you absolutely have to carve out the time to see if you want to get the most out of your cinema trips this summer.

2) The End of the Tour (opens July 31, limited)

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I caught this transcendent flick at this year’s Independent Film Festival Boston, and if anything is right in the world, you’ll be hearing a lot more about it as the Oscar race heats up.

Jason Segel is revelatory as author David Foster Wallace, whose conversations with journalist Dave Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg, terrific) during a 1996 book tour for his bestselling Infinite Jest make up the backbone of director James Ponsoldt’s insightful film. But The End of the Tour is about so much more than Wallace – it’s about the ideas that propelled him forward, that haunted and hypnotized him, that made him simultaneously embrace and detest the eyes of millions. Credit Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies for a script worthy of comparisons to Richard Linklater’s Before trilogy in how it draws profundity out of honest and raw conversation.

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