The best movies new to streaming this May

polygon.com:

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. Along with the spare staging designed by frontman David Byrne, this decision keeps the focus almost entirely on the nine musicians on stage: the Talking Heads foursome of Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth, and Jerry Harrison, plus five others — Lynn Mabry, Edna Holt, Bernie Worrell, Steve Scales, and Alex Weir. If the music alone somehow isn’t enough to get your blood flowing, the band members’ boundless exuberance will fill your heart with joy and appreciation for this thrilling document of artists at their peak.

I have to admit that I came to my Talking Heads fandom relatively late. As such, the very first time I saw Stop Making Sense was actually in a movie