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.

Atlas (2024, available May 24)

Brad Peyton’s sci-fi action-thriller Atlas stars Jennifer Lopez, Simu Liu, Sterling K. Brown, and Mark Strong. The official Atlas description reads: “Atlas Shepherd (Jennifer Lopez), a brilliant but misanthropic data analyst with a deep distrust of artificial intelligence, joins a mission to capture a renegade robot with whom she shares a mysterious past. But when plans go awry, her only hope of saving the future of humanity from AI is to trust it.” Peyton previously directed Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, San Andreas, Rampage, and the Netflix series Daybreak.