Summary
- Enjoy highly anticipated 2024 movies like IF, The Fall Guy, and Tarot; join the cinematic experience now.
- Brace yourself for thrilling horror with The Strangers: Chapter 1 and Back to Black, portraying captivating stories.
- Discover the action and adventure in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, an epic installment to the franchise.
May has an interesting list of upcoming movies from a variety of genres, and some of these, along with some released in April, can be enjoyed in theaters right now. After a couple of tough years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 2023 was a big year for cinema, with massive box-office successes like Barbie and Oppenheimer, and critically acclaimed stories like Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon. 2024 also has various highly-anticipated movies coming up, of which some can be currently enjoyed in theaters.
May started strong with the release of the action comedy The Fall Guy, the horror movies I Saw The TV Glow and Tarot, and Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, the latest installment in the ever-expanding Planet of the Apes franchise. Joining these and more this week are a fantasy movie with imaginary friends, a horror movie from a disturbing franchise, and the story of a beloved British singer.
30 Best Movies On Netflix Right Now (May 2024)
From Marriage Story to Glass and They Cloned Tyrone, here are our picks for the best movies on Netflix for everyone to enjoy this month.
10 IF
IF was released on May 17, 2024
IF (2024)
- Director
- John Krasinski
- Release Date
- May 17, 2024
- Cast
- Ryan Reynolds , John Krasinski , Cailey Fleming , Steve Carell , Matt Damon , Emily Blunt , Phoebe Waller-Bridge , Vince Vaughn , Sam Rockwell , Maya Rudolph , Jon Stewart , Awkwafina
- Runtime
- 107 minutes
IF follows Bea, a young girl who unexpectedly gains the ability to see other people’s imaginary friends, referred to as “IFs”.
IF is a fantasy comedy live-action and animation movie written and directed by John Krasinski. IF follows Bea, a young girl who unexpectedly gains the ability to see other people’s imaginary friends, referred to as “IFs”, this after going through a troubling experience. Bea learns that the IFs have been abandoned by the kids they once helped as they have now grown up, and when she discovers that her neighbor, Cal, can also see them, they team up to reunite the IFs with their former kids.
You can read Screen Rant’s IF review here.
9 The Strangers: Chapter 1
The Strangers: Chapter 1 was released on May 17, 2024
The Strangers: Chapter 1
- Director
- Renny Harlin
- Release Date
- May 17, 2024
- Cast
- Madelaine Petsch , Froy Gutierrez , Rachel Shenton , Gabriel Basso , Ema Horvath
- Runtime
- 91 minutes
The Strangers: Chapter 1 is a horror thriller directed by Renny Harlin. The Strangers: Chapter 1 centers on Maya, who, along with her boyfriend, Ryan, drives across the country as they are about to start a new life in the Pacific Northwest. When their car breaks down in Oregon, Maya and Ryan are forced to spend the night in an isolated AirBnB, where they become the target of three dangerous and murderous masked strangers.
You can read Screen Rant’s The Strangers: Chapter 1 review here.
Two sequels, The Strangers: Chapter 2 and Chapter 3, are planned to be released later this year. These new movies are a standalone trilogy in The Strangers film series.
8 Back to Black
Back to Black was released on May 17, 2024
Back to Black
- Director
- Sam Taylor-Johnson
- Release Date
- May 10, 2024
- Cast
- Marisa Abela , Jack O'Connell , Eddie Marsan , Lesley Manville , Juliet Cowan
Back to Black is a biographical drama based on the life and career of Amy Winehouse. Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, Back to Black explores different parts of the life of Amy Winehouse (played by Marisa Abela), from the beginning of her music career to the peak of it and her complex and toxic relationship with her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil.
You can read Screen Rant’s Back to Black review here.
7 Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes was released on May 10, 2024
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
- Director
- Wes Ball
- Release Date
- May 10, 2024
- Cast
- Kevin Durand , Freya Allan , Peter Macon , Owen Teague , Eka Darville , Sara Wiseman , Neil Sandilands
Chimpanzee hunter Noa teams up with feral human girl Mae to determine the future of apes and humans.
Set nearly 300 years after the events of War of the Planet of the Apes, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes sees ape civilizations that emerged from the oasis to which Caesar led the apes – meanwhile, humans have regressed into a primitive, feral state. When ape king Proximus Caesar perverts Caesar’s teachings and enslaves other clans and uses weapons forged from lost human technologies, chimpanzee hunter Noa teams up with feral human girl Mae to determine the future of apes and humans.
You can read Screen Rant’s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes review here.
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is the fourth installment in the Planet of the Apes reboot saga and the tenth movie overall.