The best movies new to streaming on Netflix, HBO Max, Prime Video, and Hulu (May 2023)

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Happy May, Polygon readers. Each month, the major streaming services add a bevy of new movies and shows to their platforms. Sometimes they are titles rotated from other platforms, sometimes they are titles making long-anticipated debuts (or returns) on streaming generally. Each month, we round up the best movies for you to watch that are new to Netflix, HBO Max, Prime Video, Hulu, and other streaming platforms.

This month is a particularly strong month, with great movies premiering across most of the major platforms. There’s an all-time great Jackie Chan movie returning to Paramount Plus, a cult classic comedy coming to Hulu, one of the best comedies ever made coming to HBO Max, and an all-timer superhero story on Netflix. Oh, and Parasite comes to HBO Max. It’s quite a month.

Let’s get to it!

Year: 1993Genre: ActionRun time: 1h 53mDirector: Renny HarlinCast: Sylvester Stallone, John Lithgow, Michael Rooker

Cliffhanger is a blast of a 1990s action movie, with all the sincere commitment to a ridiculous premise you’d expect. Sylvester Stallone and Michael Rooker (since reunited in the Guardians of the Galaxy movies) are mountain rescue rangers who find themselves stuck as unwilling participants in a major heist. The leader of the criminal crew (a delightfully unhinged John Lithgow) and his crew of sadistic henchmen attempted a mid-air heist on a Treasury plane, only for the money to fall across the Rocky Mountains. Stallone and Rooker are tasked with helping them retrieve it, at gunpoint.

Most of the movie was shot in the gorgeous Dolomite mountains in Italy, and legendary professional climbers Ron Kauk and Wolfgang Güllich handled most of the climbing scenes because of Stallone’s fear of heights (which, yes, is very