May brings streaming movies set in striking locations, including Budapest in Pretty Lethal, Dutch forests in Heresy, and Japan in My Hero Academia: You're Next. Hulu’s Send Help adds tropical vacation vibes with a survival horror twist from Sam Raimi. Criterion adds Antarctic cold with John Carpenter’s The Thing and The Thing from Another World, both tied to 1950s inspiration. Bugonia follows paranoid conspiracy theorist Teddy Gatz and his autistic cousin Don as they kidnap CEO Michelle Fuller to force a confession about invading aliens, while Fuller’s company is linked to a botched medical trial that left Gatz’s mother comatose. The story blends grief, vengeance, and alien threat possibilities, with Emma Stone delivering a standout performance as Fuller.
"A remake of Jang Joon-hwan's 2003 South Korean film Save the Green Planet!, Bugonia sees paranoid conspiracy theorist Teddy Gatz (Jesse Plemons) and his autistic cousin Don (Aidan Delbis) kidnap prominent CEO Michelle Fuller (Emma Stone), subjecting her to inventive, brutal forms of torture as he tries to force a confession that she's in contact with invading aliens. Fuller's company also happens to be responsible for a botched medical trial that left Gatz's mother comatose. So is Gatz just a troubled man struggling with grief, out for vengeance against a corrupt businesswoman, or has he stumbled on the greatest threat to humanity? Director Yorgos Lanthimos ( Poor Things, The Favourite) has tremendous fun teasing out the answer, while Stone has rarely been as captivating on screen than she is as Fuller, somehow seeming like an animal playing with their food, even at her shaven-headed, desperate lowest points."
"Summer has arrived, which means its vacation season-and there are plenty of travel tips to be found amongst the best movies on streaming this May. A bloody ballet battle royale in Budapest in Prime Video's Pretty Lethal, a visit to the picturesque (and definitely not haunted) Dutch forests in Shudder's Heresy, or an action-packed trip to Japan courtesy of Netflix's My Hero Academia: You're Next, are just some of the locations sure to give you wanderlust this month."
"If you fancy something a bit more tropical, then look no further than Send Help on Hulu-although director Sam Raimi's twisty survival horror might have you thinking twice before turning on your out of office emails. And, if the rising temperatures are already too much, the Antarctic chill of John Carpenter's classic The Thing, and its 1950s inspiration, The Thing from Another World, are both landing on Criterion."
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