11 movies to check out on Netflix this May

Jerry Seinfeld's Pop Tarts comedy Unfrosted, the sci-fi action-thriller Atlas starring Jennifer Lopez, and the anime My Oni Girl are among Netflix's new films

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11 movies to check out on Netflix this May
Clockwise from left: Atlas (Netflix), My Oni Girl (Netflix), Unfrosted (Netflix) Image: The A.V. Club

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.

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Hellboy (2019 Movie) Official Trailer “Smash Things” – David Harbour, Milla Jovovich, Ian McShane

Maybe viewers will give 2019's Hellboy another chance now that Stranger Things fans know that it’s David Harbour underneath all that red latex and makeup. The A.V. Club’s writes about the Neil Marshall-directed reboot starring Milla Jovovich and Ian McShane: “Hellboy digs relatively deep into the series’ mythology, emphasizing the Arthurian aspects of the comic’s lore. The main villain also comes from the comics: Nimue (Milla Jovovich), aka the Blood Queen, a fifth-century witch with a Magneto-esque plan to wipe out humanity and create a new civilization run by monsters. She wants Hellboy to be her king, and manages to get far enough into his head that he questions his loyalty to his adoptive father Professor Broom (Ian McShane) and the Bureau Of Paranormal Research And Defense in general. But first, Hellboy has to fight vampires, giants, witches, and, most terrifying of all, duplicitous one-percent types.”

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