11 movies to check out on Netflix this May

Netflix offers a few high-profile originals this May as the summer movie season gets ready to kick off in theaters. Jerry Seinfeld makes his feature directorial debut and acts in Unfrosted, a comedy about the origin of Pop-Tarts also starring Melissa McCarthy, Jim Gaffigan, Amy Schumer, James Marsden, Dan Levy, and Hugh Grant. In the sci-fi action-thriller Atlas, Jennifer Lopez plays a data analyst who has a problem with AI. Tomotaka Shibayama’s anime My Oni Girl debuts on Netflix and in Japanese theaters simultaneously. Other movies added to Netflix’s streaming library in May 2024 include The Matrix: Resurrections, Down The Rabbit Hole, Mortal Kombat, The Great Wall, Hellboy, Dark Waters, Shadow In The Cloud, and many more.

Dark Waters (2019, available May 1)

Adapted from a New York Times Magazine feature story by Nathaniel Rich titled “The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare,” Todd Haynes’ legal thriller Dark Waters stars Mark Ruffalo as environmental attorney Robert Bilott. The A.V. Club’s writes: “The waters in question can be found in Parkersburg, West Virginia, near one of the chemical plants at which DuPont produced the nonadhesive coating used in Teflon products. When cattle start dying and residents’ teeth turn black (around 1998), the victims turn to Rob Bilott (Mark Ruffalo), a big-city lawyer who originally hails from that region, unaware and unconcerned that Bilott’s job involves defending large corporations from accusations of malfeasance.”