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.

My Oni Girl (2024, available 24)

Studio Ghibli alumnus Tomotaka Shibayama directed the fantasy anime My Oni Girl. The official description reads: “My Oni Girl tells the story of Hiiragi Yatsuse, a first-year high school student who struggles to make friends despite his efforts to please others. His life takes an unexpected turn when one summer day he meets Tsumugi, an oni (demon) girl on a quest to find her mother in the human world. Snow mysteriously begins to fall… and their adventure begins.” My Oni Girl will premiere simultaneously on Netflix and in theaters in Japan.