May is finally here, and with it comes a slate of some of the year’s most anticipated movie premieres. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, I Saw The TV Glow, and Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes are this month’s must-see theatrical releases, but if you’re looking for the best movies new to streaming on Netflix, Hulu, Max, and more this May, you’ve come to the right place.
This month, we’ve got Jonathan Demme’s classic concert film Stop Making Sense, Lana Wachowski’s divisive yet exhilarating The Matrix Resurrections, Baz Luhrmann’s maximalist music biopic Elvis, and more.
Here are the movies new to streaming services you should watch this month. Where to watch: Max Genre: Concert film Director: Jonathan Demme It’s been 40 years since one of the great American rock bands released one of the greatest concert films of all time, and now you can stream it in your beautiful house, with your beautiful wife.
Stop Making Sense is just 88 minutes long, and it isn’t only lean from a run time perspective; the film contains pretty much nothing beyond the performances of 16 songs, assembled from recordings of four shows at Los Angeles’ Pantages Theatre in December 1983.
But what’s there is all that’s needed. Director Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs) uses very few crowd shots, a marked contrast from most concert films.