Heavens above, it's August! The summer sun is in full blast, fall is on the horizon, Instagram is eager as hell to break out the Halloween memes, and Netflix, of course, is jamming out a bunch of new content. As usual, it's a rather robust mix of vintage faves and eclectic new originals, from foreign thrillers to A-list action movies.

You can check out the whole dang list of every movie and TV show that's new on Netflix in August right here, but if you're looking for an easy list to some of the highlights, we've got you covered! And there really is something for everybody in this month's lineup. The "blockbuster" of the bunch, so to speak, is the upcoming superhero-ish crime drama Project Power, which stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Jaime Foxx as a power duo trying to bring down an illegal drug that basically turns you into an X-Men mutant for five minutes. Elsewhere, there's a lot of feel-good films to look forward to with the dance movie Work It, the family adventure film The Sleepover, and the inspirational drama All Together Now, starring Auli’i Cravalho as an unrelenting optimist with musical gifts who has to find a way to keep her shine during tragic times.

And that's just the originals. Charlie Kaufman fans are in this luck with not one, but two of his best films new to Netflix this month, and the same goes for fans of the Jurassic Park franchise, who can get their rawrs in with all three of the original trilogy films arriving this month. Check out our picks for the best new movies on Netflix below, and if you need some more streaming recommendations, be sure to check out our massive, regularly updated guide to the best movies on Netflix here.

Jurassic Park Trilogy

Available: August 1

Just in time to get you hyped for Netflix's upcoming Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous series (not an accident, I suspect,) the first three films in the Jurassic franchise land on Netflix August 1. Jurassic Park is one of the best movies ever made and it's phenomenal how well it holds up over time, not just from a technical element (though damnnnn those dinos still look good to the modern eye,) but as a standout piece of adventure storytelling. While I can't give as glowing of reviews to the sequels, Jurassic Park: The Lost World still has plenty of that Steven Spielberg magic (the scene in the truck trailer ranks among his most masterfully composed set-pieces,) and well, that cell phone scene Jurassic Park III is always good for a laugh. But really, if you like big rawrin' dinosaur action, there's no better than the Jurassic franchise.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Available: August 1

Director: Michel Gondry

Writer: Charlie Kaufman

Cast: Kate Winslet, Jim Carrey, Elijah Wood, Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo, Tom Wilkinson

Among the most touching, relatable, and inventive love stories ever put on film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind blew me away when I first saw it in theaters and it's one of those movies that never seems to lose its impact. A stunning combination of Charlie Kaufman's mind-bending and heart-breaking storytelling, Michel Gondry's impeccable eye and cinematic audacity, and two phenomenal performances from Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a technical marvel. But it's also so damned grounded and emotionally cathartic. Rooted in the love between a meek cartoonist named Joel (Carrey) and a fearless, vibrant free spirit named Clementine (Winslet), Eternal Sunshine uses the concept of a memory-erasing machine to take a journey through the heart, mind, and soul of a man so desperate to escape his heartbreak, he almost erases the parts of himself he cherishes the most. But love isn't that easy to root out, much like this film, which still lingers in my thoughts and touches my heart more than a decade after I saw it for the first time.

The Addams Family

Available: August 1

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld

Writers: Caroline Thompson and Larry Wilson

Cast: Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd, Christina Ricci, Jimmy Workman, Elizabeth Wilson

As summer starts to wind down, you can already see the enthusiasm for the fall season creeping into social media and if you're looking to get an early jump on spookytimes, you can't really do better than The Addams Family. The directorial debut from Barry Sonnenfeld immediately announced the filmmaker's knack for crowd-pleasers, turning the classic creepy TV show into a family film for the ages, bolstered on the back of some iconic performances from Anjelica Huston and Raul Julia as Morticia and Gomez Addams. Romantic, adventurous, and a love letter to goth little weirdos around the world, The Addams Family is all together ooky in the best way.

Being John Malkovich

Available: August 1

Director: Spike Jonze

Writer: Charlie Kaufman

Cast: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, and John Malkovich

Being John Malkovich is certainly one of the weirdest movies ever made, but I can guarantee you’ve never seen anything like it. From the mind of Charlie Kaufman, the film stars John Cusack as an unemployed puppeteer who finds work as a file clerk at an office building, where he discovers a door that lets anyone who enters control the mind of actor John Malkovich for a short period of time. The story snowballs from there and concerns love, ego, and power, and everyone involved gives an absolutely terrific performance. – Adam Chitwood

Work It

Available: August 7

Director: Laura Terruso

Writer: Alison Peck

Cast: Sabrina Carpenter, Liza Koshy, Jordan Fisher, Keiynan Lonsdale, Drew Ray Tanner, Michelle Buteau

You know what sounds absolutely delightful right about now? An old-fashioned escapist dance movie. You know the deal. An outsider joins a new dance crew and has to prove themselves, the dance montages, the longing slow dances, the choreography that only comes together at the last minute before the big show. I love it all, and Netflix's Work It looks like it's leaning into that formula full-on with a cast of talented up-and-comers on-screen and Alicia Keys backing the show as a producer. The set-up sees a valedictorian-type over-achiever looking to beef up her extra-curricular roster by joining the dance team. When they shut her down, she starts a new team of her own, determined to take home the top prize at the upcoming "Work It" dance contest.

Netflix's teen films range from delights like To All the Boys I've Loved Before and The Half of It to shocking misfires like Sierra Burgess Is a Loser to the growing catalogue of movies I deadass have never even heard of, but for the most part, they're usually very effective escapist entertainment. If you were happy to let The Kissing Booth 2 transport you to a sunny happy world where Harvard is just a good cover letter and a Dance Dance Revolution contest away, Work It looks like it will scratch the same silly feel-good itch, with the added bonus of flash dance scenes.

Nightcrawler

Available: August 10

Writer/Director: Dan Gilroy

Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Riz Ahmed, Bill Paxton

In the prolific pantheon of Oscar snubs, few have bewildered me so much as the failure to nominate Jake Gyllenhaal for his mesmerizing, terrifying portrayal of Louis Bloom in 2014's Nightcrawler. Without question one of the best performances of his career, and easily towards the top of my list for the best of the 21st Century so far, Gyllenhaal is a force of lean and hungry fury as an ambitious and unethical oddball who discovers he has a gift for capturing and selling gruesome crime scene footage. And things go from "stay away from that guy" to "run for your life" when Louis channels his enterprising machiavellian mind into making sure he always has new footage. A chilling indictment of how the American Dream can turn into a nightmare in the hands of the wrong person, Nightcrawler is a tight, focused, fantastically shot thriller that you can never quite shake.

Project Power

Available: August 14

Directors: Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman

Writer: Mattson Tomlin

Cast: Jamie Foxx, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Dominique Fishback, Rodrigo Santoro, Amy Landecker, Courtney B. Vance

Netflix's batch of original action movies is pretty hit-and-miss so far, with a tendency to fall in the "yeah, I guess that was ok" zone. They've had a bit of a hot streak this year with Extraction and The Old Guard, both flawed films that I still enjoyed immensely, and the trailer for their newest A-list actioner Project Power looks like it might just be extremely my shit. For one thing, it's damn good to see Joseph Gordon-Levitt back in action on screen after his welcome return with Amazon's thriller 7500, and he's got a better-than-average track record when it comes to picking the right scripts.

But Project Power also has a great hook; set in the ever-cinematic city of New Orleans, the film sees a new pill making the rounds that gives people superpowers for five minutes. As you can imagine, that starts wreaking havoc on the city and perhaps even less surprising, it's not long before the wealthy, powerful, and corrupt set out to get their hands on the technology and turn it into more wealth, power and corruption. That leads Gordon-Levitt's local cop to team up with a veteran on a mission of vengeance (Jamie Foxx) and a teenage dealer (Dominique Fishback) to "fight power with power" using the pills to help stop them. Directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman have shown a knack for subverting genre storytelling from their documentary Catfish to Paranormal Activity 3, a standout in the franchise, and I'm stoked to see with they do with a clever take on the ever-popular superhero genre. Throw in the fact that the script comes from The Batman co-writer Mattson Tomlin, and the curiosity factor on this one is very high indeed.

The Sleepover

Available: August 21

Director: Trish Sie

Writer: Sarah Rothschild

Cast: Sadie Stanley, Malin Akerman, Ken Marino, Maxwell Simkins, Joe Manganiello

If Netflix's genuinely excellent The Baby-Sitters Club update has you in the mood for some family-friendly pre-teen antics, keep an eye out for The Sleepover this month. The action-adventure comedy stars Sadie Stanley and Maxwell Simkins as a pair of siblings who discover that their overprotective suburban stay-at-home mom is actually a retired expert thief, who gets kidnapped by her ex (Joe Manganello) to do one last job. Which means it's up to the kiddos to rescue their parents and save the day! That's a pretty charming cast and a cute Spy Kids-adjacent set-up, Pitch Perfect 3 director Trish Sie (who also directed a bunch of those kickass OK Go videos) takes the helm for the family adventure, which might just be the perfect late-summer treat for the kiddos in a summer that didn't leave a lot of room for real-life sleepovers.

Unknown Origins

Available: August 28

Directed by David Galán Galindo

Written by David Galán Galindo y Fernando Navarro

Starring Javier Rey, Verónica Echegui, Brays Efe, Antonio Resines, Ernesto Alterio, Carlos Areces, Juanfra Juárez, Alex García, Leonardo Sbaraglia

Spanish thrillers have been absolutely crushing it for the last decade or so, with pulse-pounding dramas like The Invisible Guest, Julia's Eyes, and Sleep Tight, among many others. Heck, Netflix's The Platform is one of the best movies of the year so far. Which gives me a lot of hope for the upcoming Spanish-Argentinian co-production Unknown Origins, which has a bit of a wild set-up. Set in Madrid, the thriller sees a serial killer targeting people with no obvious connection and staging their deaths to resemble the appearances of famous superheroes. You had my curiosity but now you have my attention! Using the classic cop duo dynamic of a jaded senior officer about to retire and his ambitious young gun partner, Unknown Origins sends the officers undercover as cosplayers in their mission to stop the killer. That all sounds like an offbeat thriller I can get behind, and what evokes the sweaty, sticky hit of summer like serial killers and cosplay?

All Together Now

Available: August 28

Director: Brett Haley

Writers: Marc Basch, Brett Haley, Matthew Quick, Ol Parker

Cast: Auli’i Cravalho, Fred Armisen, Justina Machado, Carol Burnett, Rhenzy Feliz, Judy Reyes, Taylor Richardson, C.S. Lee, Anthony Jacques Jr., Gerald Isaac Waters

Brett Haley's Hearts Beat Loud beautifully fused inspirational feel-good drama with a love of music, so I'm very excited to see what he delivers with Netflix's All Together Now. Moana breakout Auli'i Cravalho stars as a musically gifted and relentlessly optimistic teenage girl living on a bus after her mother's boyfriend kicked them out. But when tragedy strikes, she has to learn how to overcome new obstacles and rekindle her determined spirit with the help of her chosen family. I think we could all use a little motivational heart-warming tale about now, and Cravalho is due for a live-action hit after nailing, not just her performance in the film, but a breathtaking performance at the Oscars.

Casino Royale

Available: August 31

Director: Martin Campbell

Writers: Neal Purvis and Robert Wade

Cast: Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Jeffrey Wright, Catarino Murino

Casino Royale is one of the best Bond films ever. Period. There will be no questions at this time. The 2006 revamp of the iconic spy franchise introduced audiences to Daniel Craig as 007, along with a nuanced character-driven approach to the suave superspy that defines the best of the Craig era (this along with Skyfall). Craig may have seemed an unlikely choice at first glance, but the veteran actor handily proved himself one of the greats out of the gate. With GoldenEye director Martin Campbell at the helm, Casino Royale delivered the perfect mix of classic James Bond espionage, seduction, and ass-kicking (in fact, more ass-kicking than ever before) with an updated spin on the classic character befitting the era we live in now. Not to mention one of the all-time great Bond girls in Eva Green's Vesper Lynd and a villain to make even the most hearty of folk flinch in the testicle-torturing Le Chiffre. From top to tail, Casino Royale is a masterful spy film and a spectacular introduction to a new era of James Bond. --Haleigh Foutch