- Hitman
- Anyone but you
- Atlas
- Ultraman: Rising
- Tell Them you love me
- A family Affair
- Tigger Warning
- Inheritance
- Madame web
- How to rob a bank
1. Hitman
Gary Daniels, a philosophy professor and IT expert, assists detectives Claudette, Phil, and Jasper in catching people who hire hitmen. When Jasper is suspended, Gary takes on the role of a pretend hitman.
However, he becomes sympathetic toward Madison, who wants him to kill her abusive husband. Gary warns Madison, and she ends up killing her husband.
To protect her, Gary suffocates Jasper, making it look like suicide.
2. Anyone but you
Bea and Ben, who briefly dated in the past, reunite at a wedding in Australia.
They pretend to be in love to convince family and friends, but their fake feelings become more real. After hooking up the night before the wedding, they’re on the cusp of admitting their true emotions.
3. Altas
Netflix’s Altas sees Jennifer Lopez’s titular character save the world, with a twist ending that could leave room for a future sequel.
The 2024 movie follows Atlas Shepherd (Lopez), whose only goal in life is to take down the world’s first AI terrorist, Harlan. The brilliant robot once belonged to her genius scientist mother, leading Atlas to distrust any AI.
After the International Coalition of Nations (ICN) led a strike to stop Harlan and his robot followers, the terrorists left Earth to regroup on another planet, but for decades, no one knew where.
4. Ultraman: Rising
Netflix’s new kaiju movie Ultraman: Rising reminds you to check out another animated Ultraman story available on the platform.
The 58-year-old franchise recently got a new chapter with Ultraman: Rising, a standalone film following the new Ultraman Ken Sato. One of the dozens of characters to use the Ultraman name, Ken Sato had to learn how to be a father after a baby kaiju was left alone following her mother’s death.
Ultraman: Rising was a fun giant monster movie featuring two generations of Ultramen, adding a different twist to a concept the franchise has used before.
5. Tell them you love me
Tell Them You Love Me, a documentary now streaming on Netflix from director Nick August-Perna does not include a single interview with its main subject.
The film is about the white, abled former professor Anna Stubblefield, who was accused of sexually assaulting Derrick Johnson, a nonspeaking Black man with cerebral palsy whom she says she taught to communicate via a method called facilitated communication (FC).
Johnson isn’t interviewed in the film, because his family has always understood that his diagnosed intellectual disability and lack of motor control meant he would never be able to communicate.
At least, almost always—except for the period from 2009 to 2011, when they believed Johnson was communicating via FC, facilitated by Stubblefield.
6. A family affair
Zac Efron’s upcoming film A Family Affair sounds and looks quite familiar to a different movie that was released in early May 2024, resulting in some drawing parallels between the two.
The Netflix romantic comedy, directed by Richard LaGravenese and written by Carrie Solomon, stars Efron as a movie star who begins sleeping with his assistant’s older mother, played by Nicole Kidman.
In the second movie featuring Efron and Kidman as romantic interests, their characters engage in a love affair that frustrates Joey King’s Zara, the aforementioned assistant, and daughter at the center of the conflict, to no end.
7. Tigger warning
Netflix’s new action thriller film Trigger Warning brings Jessica Alba back into the limelight as she plays the tough protagonist fighting her way through the corrupt secrets of her quaint hometown.
The plot follows Parker, an experienced US Army Special Forces officer, who returns to her small hometown of Creation following the sudden death of her beloved father.
But her return uncovers a grand-scale conspiracy that threatens US internal security and also poses an active danger to the protagonist. Overall, Trigger Warning is an out-and-out action film, and its adequate pacing and tight plot keep it fairly enjoyable.
8. Inheritance
Knives Out has a lot to answer for. Imitators of Rian Johnson’s whodunnit haven’t exactly been few and far between over the last few years, but Inheritance (2024), a Polish effort streaming on Netflix, is executed well enough to feel like a reasonable enough version – even if it lacks a little edge and has a somewhat perfunctory — though admittedly quite satisfying — ending.
Otherwise known as Spadek, Inheritance evokes Knives Out most obviously, but that’s far from the only influence. You’ll recognize the DNA of everything from film and TV to board and parlor games.
The overall effect is familiar. A bunch of eccentrics gather together in a single location, one of them dies, and the others have to work out – along with the audience – who the killer is.
9. Madame web
The movie opens in Peru in 1973. A pregnant woman named Constance Webb (Kerry Bishé) and Ezekiel Sims (Tahar Rahim) are leading a research team in the hunt for a rare spider, which Constance believes has healing properties. Good news: Constance finds the special spider! Bad news: Ezekiel betrays her, shoots her team, shoots Constance, and steals the spider for himself.
While Constance lies bleeding out on the jungle floor, she is rescued by “Las Arañas,” a secret tribe of people with spider-like superpowers, whom Constance thought was a myth.
Turns out, they are real! They can’t save Constance, but they do save her baby. Las Arañas leader Santiago (José María Yazpik) promises that someday when that baby comes looking for answers, he will provide them.
10. How to rob a bank
The film centers on the stories of Mark Biggins and Steve Meyers, two men behind 19 confirmed bank robberies across Seattle that netted them over $2.3 million.
In the film, they appear to explain their tips and tricks and share how they took orders from a guy who lived in a treehouse named Scott Scurlock.
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