What to Watch in May: 23 Notable TV Shows & Streaming Movies

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – April 28, 2022

The month ahead will bring the returns of Stranger Things and Hacks, the latest Star Wars and Star Trek series, Danny Boyle's dramatization of the rise and fall of the Sex Pistols, an adaptation of another Sally Rooney novel from the team behind Normal People, a fictionalized remake of one of TV's best true-crime docuseries, and more. In the gallery on this page, our editors have selected the most interesting TV and movie titles debuting at home in the next month, listed in order by premiere date.

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BONUS: Top older titles coming to the streaming services in May

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▣ Navalny - HBO Max, 5/1
Daniel Roher's timely profile of the now-imprisoned Russian dissident—with a particular focus on his 2020 poisoning—won several awards at this year's Sundance Film Festival.

also available:

(500) Days of Summer (2009) - Paramount+, 5/2

About a Boy (2002) - Peacock, 5/1

American Gangster (2007) - Peacock, 5/1

Blackfish (2013) - Prime Video, 5/1

Cabaret (1972) - Paramount+, 5/2

Chungking Express (1996) - HBO Max, 5/1

The Color of Money (1986) - Paramount+, 5/2

Corpse Bride (2005) - Netflix, 5/1

The Color Purple (1985) - HBO Max, 5/1

Courage Under Fire (1996) - Prime Video, 5/1

Days of Heaven (1978) - Paramount+, 5/2

Dazed and Confused (1993) - Hulu, 5/1

Devil in a Blue Dress (1995) - HBO Max, 5/1

Dirty Harry (1971) - Netflix, 5/1

Drag Me to Hell (2009) - Hulu, 5/1

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) - Hulu, 5/15

Fargo (1996) - Prime Video, 5/1

The Fighter (2010) - Paramount+, 5/2

Forrest Gump (1994) - Netflix, 5/1

The Fugitive (1993) - HBO Max, 5/1

Grandma (2015) - Hulu, 5/1

Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) - Paramount+, 5/2

Hatching (2022) - Hulu, 5/6

Hot Fuzz (2007) - Hulu, 5/1

The Joy Luck Club (1993) - Peacock, 5/1

Love Story (1970) - Paramount+, 5/2

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) - Paramount+, 5/16

Menace II Society (1993) - Netflix, 5/1

Milk (2008) - Peacock, 5/1

The Namesake (2007) - Peacock and Prime Video, 5/1

Nebraska (2013) - Paramount+, 5/1

North Dallas Forty (1979) - HBO and HBO Max, 5/1

The Odd Couple (1968) - Paramount+, 5/2

Once Upon a Time in America (1984) - Hulu and Netflix, 5/1

Out of Sight (1998) - Peacock, 5/1

Paper Moon (1973) - Paramount+, 5/2

Parenthood (1989) - Peacock, 5/1

Platoon (1987) - Prime Video, 5/1

Red Rock West (1994) - Peacock, 5/1

Saving Private Ryan (1998) - Paramount+, 5/2

Schindler's List (1993) - Peacock, 5/1

Sense and Sensibility (1995) - HBO Max, 5/1

Serpico (1973) - Paramount+, 5/2

Shakespeare in Love (1998) - Paramount+, 5/2

Shrek (2001) - Peacock and Prime Video, 5/1

Shrek 2 (2004) - Peacock and Prime Video, 5/1

Sicario (2015) - Peacock, 5/1

Sideways (2004) - Prime Video, 5/1

The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) - Peacock, 5/1

Tangerine (2015) - Prime Video, 5/1

Terminator 2: Judgment Day [Director's cut] (1991) - HBO and HBO Max, 5/1

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) - Peacock, 5/1

Welcome to the Dollhouse (1996) - HBO Max, 5/1

When Harry Met Sally (1989) - Netflix, 5/1

Zero Dark Thirty (2012) - Prime Video, 5/1

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