10 movies to check out on Prime Video this May

A new romantic comedy starring Anne Hathaway, the Oscar-winning American Fiction, Mia Goth in the horror prequel Pearl, and a number of Alfred Hitchcock classics lead the offerings from Amazon’s Prime Video this May. In The Idea Of You, Anne Hathaway plays a single mother who gets her groove back with the much younger lead singer of a famous boy band. Before you see Ti West’s MaXXXine in theaters this July, check out Mia Goth in the prequel Pearl. Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction starring Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, Issa Rae, and Sterling K. Brown won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. Several Alfred Hitchcock classics arrive on Prime Video this month, including Psycho and Rear Window. Other new arrivals in the Prime Video library this May include The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension, Sixteen Candles, Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, and many more.

The Boys In The Boat (2023, available May 28)

George Clooney’s biographical sports drama The Boys In The Boat starring Joel Edgerton, Callum Turner, and Peter Guinness follows the University of Washington’s journey to compete in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. The A.V. Club’s writes, “A story like that of the 1936 University of Washington junior rowing team seems tailor-made to get the big-screen treatment. It’s got everything: thrilling races, affable characters, and, perhaps most important of all, a welcome positive message about improbable triumphs—all against the backdrop of the Great Depression and the 1936 Berlin Olympics. And while George Clooney’s handsomely mounted The Boys In The Boat delivers on all of those fronts, the period piece remains a rather inert proposition, a beautiful postcard of a film.”