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The hair and sunny palm trees make 1970s California instantly recognizable, so when 20th Century Women specifies its locale at the beginning of the trailer, you should know that it’s a crucial piece of information. Santa Barbara, 1979 is presented as an idyll on the cusp, its orderly layout stretching to the edge of the sea and the new decade. As Annette Bening’s narration takes over, it becomes clear that the people inside the city are aware of the looming changes and are struggling to cope.

If the tank shot in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes left you slack-jawed, then get ready to have your mind blown by even more simian fighting in its sequel, War for the Planet of the Apes. As the third film in the reboot series, War has moved past the events depicted in the original films and allows returning director Matt Reeves to blaze his own path to ape supremacy. Caesar, it seems, is still destined to lead the way, but he learned in Dawn that humans and apes are capable of a range of interactions, leaving the temporary reconciliation at the end of Battle for the Planet of the Apes as a plausible ending for the reboot as well.