With Might 2024 simply across the nook, it’s time to look into the eight films we expect ought to be in your radar all through the month starting from a brand new sci-fi motion epic starring Jennifer Lopez to a comedy homicide thriller starring Anna Kendrick and Blake Full of life.
As at all times, with our month-to-month look forward (in case you missed our April 2024 listing, head right here), we break up this text into two sections for international and US readers. Firstly, we cowl some Netflix Unique films coming to Netflix globally. In these instances, we’ll name them our most anticipated provided that we’ve not seen them simply but. Within the second half, we’ll cowl licensed titles particularly coming to Netflix US, with the provision of different areas various.
For the total listing of what’s arising on Netflix all through Might 2024 (and we imply a full listing!), hold it locked right here on What’s on Netflix.
With that out of the way in which, right here’s our prime picks
Most Anticipated Netflix Originals Coming in Might 2024
Thelma the Unicorn
Coming to Netflix: Might seventeenth
Netflix’s animation output to date in 2024 has been a bit quiet. We kicked off the 12 months robust with Orion and the Darkish, however since then, past The Casagrandes Film, it’s been tremendous quiet. Hopefully, that’ll begin to change with Thelma the Unicorn up subsequent.
With among the greatest lighting in any animated film I’ve seen in fairly a while, Thelma the Unicorn is adapting the well-known youngsters’ novel following a pony who needs to develop into a glamorous music star however, to face out, has to develop into a unicorn.
ATLAS
Coming to Netflix: Might twenty fourth
Jennifer Lopez in a mech go well with. If that’s not an acceptable hook, I don’t know what will likely be! Returning for her second film on the streamer, ATLAS is a brand new sci-fi motion the place Lopez performs a counterterrorism analyst who’s humanity’s final hope as she’s tasked with capturing a rogue renegade robotic.
You might even see Jerry Seinfeld is presently producing a variety of headlines. That’s as a result of his subsequent main Netflix undertaking (following Comedians in Automobiles Getting Espresso and his stand-up specials) is heading to the service early within the month. The ensemble forged will and completely ought to be why most of us will get via the door to look at, however will or not it’s price staying? That’s a giant query.
The rationale we ask that query is as a result of the plot of the film, no less than on paper, appears fairly trivial because it seeks to documentary the so-called Breakfast Wars within the early Nineteen Sixties with Kelloggs dealing with off in opposition to Submit Cereal.
Among the many forged for the film contains Jerry Seinfeld, Melissa McCarthy, Jim Gaffigan, Hugh Grant, and Amy Schumer.
My Oni Woman
Coming to Netflix: Might twenty fourth
Each month, we function a world movie on this spot, and I’m joyful that this month, I’m getting to choose a model new animated film, this one from Studio Colorido, a Japanese firm. This movie serves because the studio’s fourth main function movie.
Directed by Studio Ghibli alum Tomotaka Shibayama, this movie finds a first-year highschool pupil, Hiiragi, who’s unable to say no at any time when somebody requests one thing of him teaming up with an one woman who’s the polar reverse of them happening a quest to seek out her mom.
Greatest Licensed Motion pictures Coming to Netflix US in Might 2024
Darkish Waters (2017)
Coming to Netflix: Might 1st
Mark Ruffalo has starred in some wonderful films, however his crowning achievement, for my part, is his position within the Focus Options drama, Darkish Waters.
Licensed Recent on RottenTomatoes, the film tells the story of an legal professional who digs deep into the weeds of rising deaths linked to one of many world’s largest firms, which places him up in opposition to harmful adversaries.
Todd Haynes is behind the film, so no marvel it’s so good, however in case you’ve by no means seen it, it’s nicely price a glance when it returns on the primary of the month.
The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019)
Coming to Netflix: Might fifth
Described as a “fashionable Mark Twain-style journey story,” this Shia LaBeouf film is a return to type for the embattled actor in what’s an emotional and exquisite journey from begin to end.
With the dream of turning into an expert wrestler, Zak, a younger man with Down syndrome, flees his residential nursing dwelling. By likelihood, he stumbles upon Tyler, who can be fleeing beneath very totally different circumstances.
The film touches on some complicated topics however may have you smiling all through. A real gem.
Improve (2018)
Coming to Netflix: Might sixteenth
ATLAS isn’t the one sci-fi film making its Netflix debut subsequent month. The thriller Improve, starring Logan Marshall-Inexperienced, will even premiere halfway via the month.
Set within the 12 months 2046, the film follows an auto mechanic who’s a technophobe and shies away from the generally implanted pc chips. He should put his concern of expertise apart when he seeks revenge and, to take action, implants an experimental chip known as Stem.
Leigh Whannell directs this intense Cyberpunk-esque thriller, which is a pleasure to look at and has flown beneath the radar for much too lengthy.
A Easy Favor (2018)
Coming to Netflix: Might nineteenth
Rounding out our licensed picks is A Easy Favor, headlined by Anna Kendrick, Blake Full of life, and Henry Golding, and comes from Lionsgate.
Set within the suburbs of Connecticut the plot facilities round Stephanie, a widowed vlogger and single mom who chronicles her every day life. Her greatest buddy, Emily, epitomizes success with a high-powered profession, a faithful household, and a stunning existence. However when Emily vanishes with out a hint, Stephanie pivots her on-line content material to unravel the thriller. She delves deep into Emily’s enigmatic previous, uncovering stunning secrets and techniques that promise to captivate her viewers and upend her understanding of her closest confidante.
Jamie East, in his assessment for The Solar, says, “As a thriller, it’s a little bit of a dud – however as an attractive, crude, swaggering comedy (very similar to the 4pm martini), it actually hits the spot.”
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