The Best Movies to Stream This Month (May 2026)
Key takeaways
- 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.
- Here are WIRED’s picks of the best movies to watch right now.
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Still from BUGONIA.Courtesy of Focus Features/Everett Collection Comment Loader Save Story Save this story Comment Loader Save Story Save this story 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.
Here are WIRED’s picks of the best movies to watch right now.