A movie summer full of Joy, Sadness, Disgust, Fear, and Anger.

Now that Summer is coming to a close, it sucks. We wish we can go back to June and live it on repeat. But then again, there wouldn’t be Halloween or Christmas, or any Best or Worst Movies of the Year lists. Here are my two short lists of the best and worst I have seen this summer. And like my annual Midway Point, these choices aren’t final, and December is when you’ll know the real winner and losers.

The Best Movies of the Summer

5.) “The Killer”

John Woo’s remake of his own 1989 Hong Kong movie is almost as fresh as that classic. Yes, it has to cater to American audiences, but it can also update things like the main assassin being a female in the form of Nathalie Emmanuel, and what the blind young woman (Diana Silver) has gotten herself into. I’m glad I’m able to compare and contrast both versions, and Woo delivers on both sides.

4.) “Twisters”

While I enjoyed “Deadpool & Wolverine” and “Alien: Romulus” this summer, I enjoyed “Twisters” even more. It honors the original movie from 1996 without relying on character comebacks or the cliche when an antagonist does. It just relies on the chemistry between two mismatched characters (Daisy Edgar Jones and Glen Powell) and a lot of tornados to make it a hit. And it worked.

3.) “Longlegs”

This horror crime mystery form writer/director Oz Perkins is a real mind game, reminding us of “The Silence of the Lambs.” Featuring Maika Monroe as the main detective and Nicolas Cage as the serial killer, there’s more to the murders than meets the eye. Even the backwards end credits are as mesmerizing as the screenplay gets.

2.) “Inside Out 2”

The sequel to one of the best Disney-Pixar animated films honors the original with a new set of emotions (Anxiety, Ennui, Envy, and Embarrassment) and what makes the human girl Riley a person. It’s every bit as emotional, delightful, and visually stunning as the first film, and I loved it very much. And I think that given its billion dollar mark (being the highest grossing animated film and the first to make that much overseas), you loved it, too.

1.) “Sing Sing”

This drama is still rolling out to theaters and hasn’t even come to my area in New Jersey, but when I saw it in NYC, I feel in love with it. Colman Domingo plays a wrongfully convicted man who runs an acting program in the Sing Sing prison, while real life former convicts play themselves. It really represents the escapism acting and entertainment can represent. And when you do get the opportunity to see it, take advantage of it. Don’t miss it. Find a way to see it. I have faith in you.

The Worst Movies of the Summer

5.) “My Spy: The Eternal City”

I never saw the appeal of the first movie, which ripped off “Cop & a Half” and 10% of “Paper Moon.” That 10% happens to be in the form of Chloe Coleman who was trying to do her own Tatum O’Neal dispositions, while Dave Bautista is her CIA agent friend. And now that he’s her stepfather on a school field trip in Italy, it gets even more condescending.

4.) “The Crow”

I stick to the classics like the 1994 cult classic that would have made Brandon Lee a bonafide movie star if it wasn’t for that prop gun. I rather have some soda spilled on my popcorn than subject to this mess. Newsflash, that actually happened at my viewing. Just a little. Still tasted good though. I can’t say the same for this reboot, which not even Bill Skarsgard can save.

3.) “Jackpot”

In the future when another Great Depression hits, Los Angeles has a solution. Whoever wins the lottery jackpot has until sundown to survive all the greedy killers. That means everyone has to hostile and mean-spirited, and that means I have to hate this action comedy.

2.) “Borderlands”

This adaptation was even loathed by fans of the video game (with Cinemascore giving it a D+). Director Eli Roth and his dream cast of Cate Blanchett and Kevin Hart have hit career lows so low, that I’m glad it bombed at the box office. It’s like if “Guardians of the Galaxy” or “Mad Max” had a ménage a trois with “The Adventures of Pluto Nash.”

1.) “Unfrosted”

I know I’m gonna get comments from readers saying they liked it, but I still thought Jerry Seinfeld’s directorial debut was an embarrassing mess. A comedy about the creation of the Pop Tart made by one of the greatest comedians in the world should be as brilliant as his sitcom series. But it isn’t. It’s just recycled and degrading.