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Like most people, I tend to associate summer with fun — and spending an evening with friends over a movie enhancing it is among the season’s easiest pleasures.

Blockbusters like Ghostbusters (1984) and Jurassic Park (1993) have stuck around in the cultural memory as all-time-great summer movies, both by popular and financial standards. But there are plenty of lesser-known movies running the gamut from horror to comedy to action that deliver the good times expected of a so-called summer film worthy of attention. Here are some of my favorites.

Read the full list on 425.