What's Coming Out This Week In Theaters and On Streaming, VOD & TV: May 18 thru May 24, 2026
All the 🎥 films and 📺 shows hitting theaters and streaming this week!
Summer is officially starting to flex a little, as this week’s releases aim to test the box office with a handful of high-profile blockbusters. But the small screen isn’t exactly sitting this one out either, with a fresh batch of TV premieres looking to make their mark as the summer season gets underway.
As always, we’ve rounded up the new movies and shows arriving over the next few days, whether you’re heading out to the theater, staying in for a streaming binge, or just trying to figure out what’s worth adding to the watchlist. So scroll down and see what catches your eye. The summer lineup is only getting started.
🎥 In Theaters This Week
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The Boys: Season 5 - Finale Episode
(Tues, May 19th — *One-Night Big Screen Event)
“Superheroes are done!” Well, at least in the blood-soaked world of Amazon’s darkly twisted superhero satire The Boys, which has spent five seasons serving up some of the wildest and most subversive jabs at the genre. Now, for a special one-night big-screen event, fans can watch Butcher (Karl Urban), Hughie (Jack Quaid), Annie (Erin Moriarty), Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara), and Mother’s Milk (Laz Alonso) make one last push to bring down Homelander (Antony Starr) for good.
🎥 The Secret World of Arrietty
(Tues, May 19th — re-release; *IMAX One-Night Event)
Tiny people, big trouble, and one very risky friendship. This Studio Ghibli favorite returns in a newly restored 4K IMAX presentation, following Arrietty, a tiny Borrower living beneath the floorboards of an ordinary home. When a lonely boy discovers her hidden world, curiosity turns dangerous as Arrietty must protect her family while stepping into a friendship that could change everything.
🎥 Stolen Kingdom
(Thurs, May 21st — limited release; in LA)
Disney adults, urban explorers, and black-market collectors turn the Magic Kingdom into a true-crime funhouse in this wild documentary about a missing high-value animatronic and the obsessive subculture surrounding it. What begins as fan devotion soon slips into trespassing, theft, and jaw-dropping confessionals from people who may have taken their love of the parks way too far. Turns out pixie dust has a street value.
🎥 Ask E. Jean
(Thurs, May 21st — limited release; in NY)
E. Jean Carroll gets the documentary treatment in this portrait of a trailblazing journalist, advice columnist, and courtroom fighter. Directed by Ivy Meeropol, the film traces Carroll’s life from media personality to public figure who took on Donald Trump in court and won... twice!
🎥 The Mandalorian and Grogu
(Fri, May 22nd — wide release)
A galaxy far, far away finally returns to the big screen with this pulpy space-western adventure, as Pedro Pascal’s Din Djarin and his Force-sensitive foundling Grogu track Imperial holdouts across a lawless post-Empire frontier. With Sigourney Weaver joining as a New Republic colonel and Jeremy Allen White suiting up via motion capture as Rotta the Hutt, this big-screen chapter brings Star Wars back to its scrappy gunslinger roots.
🎥 Passenger
(Fri, May 22nd — wide release)
The open road turns into a dead-end nightmare in this supernatural horror thriller from horror director André Øvredal. Jacob Scipio and Lou Llobell star as a van-life couple whose dream getaway spirals after they witness a deadly roadside accident and find themselves stalked by a demonic presence that refuses to let them outrun it. Melissa Leo co-stars as a fellow traveler who knows the road hides something far worse than bad directions.
🎥 I Love Boosters
(Fri, May 22nd — wide release)
High fashion gets a five-finger discount in this darkly satirical caper from Sorry to Bother You filmmaker Boots Riley. Keke Palmer stars as the leader of the Velvet Gang, a stylish crew of Oakland boosters lifting designer goods from luxury boutiques and flipping them for people priced out of the fantasy. But when Demi Moore’s fashion mogul becomes their biggest target, this Robin Hood hustle turns into a sharp, absurdist takedown of capitalism in couture.
🎥 Tuner
(Fri, May 22nd — limited release)
Leo Woodall stars as a gifted piano tuner whose extraordinary hearing turns into a very dangerous side hustle. While apprenticing under a veteran tuner played by Dustin Hoffman, he discovers he can crack safes by sound alone, pulling him into New York’s criminal underworld. What starts as a rare talent quickly becomes a costly temptation.
🎥 Saccharine
(Fri, May 22nd — limited release)
A killer diet trend takes a ghostly turn in this Australian supernatural horror film from Relic filmmaker Natalie Erika James. Grey’s Anatomy’s Midori Francis stars as a lovelorn medical student who falls into a bizarre weight-loss craze built around eating human ashes, only to find herself haunted by the person she’s consuming.
🎥 Corporate Retreat
(Fri, May 22nd — limited release)
Team-building gets a body count in this darkly comic survival thriller, as a group of ambitious tech executives find their luxury desert retreat turning into a blood-soaked corporate nightmare. Alan Ruck, Rosanna Arquette, Odeya Rush, Ashton Sanders, Sasha Lane, and more enter a sadistic game where office politics give way to primal instinct. Consider it the ultimate performance review, with termination taking on a whole new meaning.
🎥 Giant
(Fri, May 22nd — limited release; also on ✅VOD/Digital)
Prince “Naz” Hamed steps into the ring in this British underdog boxing drama starring Amir El-Masry as the flashy, fearless British-Yemeni fighter who rose from Sheffield kid to one of the most electric boxers of the ’90s. Pierce Brosnan co-stars as tough-love trainer Brendan Ingle, with Rocky himself, Sylvester Stallone, executive producing.
🎥 Reckless
(Fri, May 22nd — limited release; also on ✅VOD/Digital)
Scott Adkins punches his way through one very messy second chance in this darkly comic British action thriller about an ex-con hunting down his share of a long-buried heist. But with the law closing in, old associates circling, and Vinnie Jones and Nicole Deon adding to the trouble, staying free might be tougher than surviving the job.
🎥 Terminator 2: Judgment Day: 35th Anniversary
(Fri, May 22nd — re-release)
James Cameron’s sci-fi action classic returns to theaters for its 35th anniversary, bringing Arnold Schwarzenegger’s reprogrammed cyborg protector back to the big screen. Linda Hamilton’s Sarah Connor, Edward Furlong’s John Connor, and Robert Patrick’s liquid-metal T-1000 still make this one of the great sequels in blockbuster history. Some movies age well. This one comes back stronger.
🎥 Legally Blonde: 25th Anniversary
(Sun, May 24th and Wed, May 27th — re-release; via Fathom Ent.)
Elle Woods heads back to the big screen for an anniversary re-release, proving once again that pink, confidence, and legal brilliance make a pretty unbeatable combo. Reese Witherspoon’s beloved comedy follows Elle as she enrolls at Harvard Law School to win back her ex, only to discover she’s far more than anyone expected. What starts as a romantic mission becomes a masterclass in self-respect.
🎦 Streaming This Week
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🎦 W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With A Cause
(Tues, May 19th — premiering on PBS/PBS App)
PBS’s American Masters turns its attention to scholar, writer, and civil rights pioneer W.E.B. Du Bois in this documentary tracing his life from the post-Emancipation era to his role as one of America’s most influential intellectual voices. Through archival material and historical analysis, the film explores how Du Bois challenged racial inequality and helped shape generations of activism.
🎦 Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War
(Wed, May 20th — premiering on Prime Video)
John Krasinski’s Jack Ryan is back in the field, which means retirement from global catastrophe duty will have to wait. When a suspicious money trail points to a coordinated terrorist attack against the United States, Ryan is pulled from analyst mode into a dangerous mission across Europe and the Middle East. Wendell Pierce, Michael Kelly, Betty Gabriel, and Sienna Miller co-star in this big-screen continuation of the Amazon spy series.
🎦 Kyle Larson vs. The Double
(Thurs, May 21st — premiering on Prime Video)
NASCAR champion Kyle Larson takes on one of motorsport’s most punishing challenges: racing the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 on the same day. This Prime Video documentary follows the 1,100-mile test from the 230-mph pressure of Indy to the endurance grind in Charlotte.
🎦 Ladies First
(Fri, May 22nd — premiering on Netflix)
Sacha Baron Cohen wakes up in a parallel world where gender roles are reversed, and suddenly his smug advertising executive has to function in a society that no longer bends around him. Rosamund Pike co-stars as a sharp colleague who forces him to confront the privilege he once took for granted. The satire sounds broad, uncomfortable, and designed to make bad behavior squirm.
🎦 The Bride!
(Fri, May 22nd — streaming on HBO MAX)
Revenge meets resurrection in writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal’s 1930s reimagining of The Bride of Frankenstein, where loyalty and longing turn combustible. Recent Oscar winner Jessie Buckley plays a murdered woman brought back to life and unleashed into Chicago’s underworld, while Oscar winner Christian Bale’s monster searches for devotion and finds an outlaw partner instead. This smoky genre mashup turns a classic monster tale into a volatile love story with a rising body count.
🎦 Arco
(Fri, May 22nd — streaming on Hulu)
The future literally crashes into the end of the world in this Oscar-nominated animated sci-fi adventure from French animator Ugo Bienvenu. Produced and voiced by Oscar-winner Natalie Portman, the inventive fantasy follows a young boy accidentally flung from a peaceful tomorrow into a shattered 2075, where survival hinges on quick thinking, unlikely friendships, and a stubborn belief that hope isn’t extinct yet. Saving the planet may be the only way he ever makes it home.
🎦 Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
(Fri, May 22nd — streaming on Peacock)
Quentin Tarantino’s martial arts revenge epic returns in its full intended form, merging Kill Bill Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 into one unrated, blood-soaked saga. Uma Thurman’s iconic Bride cuts an even fiercer path through her sword-swinging rampage as the story unfolds as a single operatic blaze of kung fu vengeance. It’s the definitive, all-killer Tarantino cut fans have spent decades waiting to see.
🎦 This Is Not a Test
(Fri, May 22nd — streaming on Shudder)
Olivia Holt stars in this high school-set zombie siege thriller as a frantic student leading her trapped classmates barricaded inside their school, where dwindling supplies and rising paranoia turn survival into a psychological pressure cooker. While waiting for the cavalry that may never come, they realize the undead outside might be less dangerous than the desperation spreading within the walls. Because this time, the final exam is who can survive the longest without giving up.
✅ On VOD This Week
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✅ The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
(Tues, May 19th — on VOD/Digital)
Time to power up. This animated sequel blasts the Mushroom Kingdom to new levels as Mario (Chris Pratt), Luigi (Charlie Day), and Princess Peach (Anya Taylor-Joy) face Bowser’s next move, now driven by his son (Benny Safdie) on a mission to shake up the galaxy. With returning voices and new cosmic stakes, this star-powered adventure could be the jolt fans have been waiting for.
✅ Lee Cronin’s The Mummy
(Tues, May 19th — on VOD/Digital)
Eight years gone, and she comes back like nothing ever happened. Jack Reynor stars in this eerie supernatural horror thriller as a journalist whose missing daughter (Natalie Grace) is discovered inside a 3,000-year-old sarcophagus, unchanged in body but deeply unsettling in spirit. As he and his wife (Laia Costa) try to welcome her home, strange and violent signs begin to surface, pointing to something ancient taking hold. Sometimes the real horror isn’t losing someone... it’s getting them back.
✅ Mother Mary
(Tues, May 19th — on VOD/Digital)
Anne Hathaway stars as a pop icon in freefall who retreats to a rural German farmhouse to reunite with her estranged friend and costume designer (Michaela Coel) to create a dress meant to mark a bold comeback. But as old wounds reopen and the creative process turns combative, visually inventive filmmaker David Lowery shapes this surreal, music-laced drama into a psychological unraveling where identity, ego, and art become impossible to separate.
✅ Normal
(Tues, May 19th — on VOD/Digital)
Bob Odenkirk’s quiet retirement plan gets shot to hell in this darkly funny neo-Western from Free Fire director Ben Wheatley and John Wick writer Derek Kolstad. Odenkirk stars as a battle-worn sheriff who moves to a sleepy Midwestern town, only to uncover a deep criminal network after a robbery goes sideways. One last stand wasn’t on the job description, but here we are.
✅ Mile End Kicks
(Tues, May 19th — on VOD/Digital)
Barbie Ferreira chases a big byline and finds a bigger mess in this indie coming-of-age dramedy from I Like Movies filmmaker Chandler Levack. She stars as an aspiring music journalist who heads to Montreal to write about Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill, only to get pulled into the city’s indie rock scene and a complicated romance with two bandmates. Consider it a mixtape of ambition, desire, and early-adulthood confusion.
✅ The Midway Point
(Tues, May 19th — on VOD/Digital)
Sean Ryan Fox stars as Jake, an introverted high schooler on the autism spectrum trying to find his place in this indie romance drama. When Jake falls for Alice, a bold and outgoing classmate (played by Catharine Daddario), her fearless energy pulls him out of his shell. But behind her brash exterior, Alice may be just as lonely and lost as he is.
✅ The Stranger
(Tues, May 19th — on VOD/Digital)
Indifference becomes the real crime. Acclaimed French filmmaker François Ozon (Swimming Pool, Frantz) adapts Albert Camus’ Algerian-French wartime novel into a stark black-and-white drama, with Benjamin Voisin as a detached clerk whose quiet response to a violent act puts him on trial—not just for what he did, but for how little he seems to feel about it.
✅ Wasteman
(Tues, May 19th — on VOD/Digital)
Rising talent David Jonsson (The Long Walk, HBO’s Industry) stars as an inmate on the verge of parole, holding onto the hope of reconnecting with his son, until a volatile new cellmate (Tom Blyth, from MGM+’s Billy the Kid) drags him back into the prison’s violent pecking order. This tense, unforgiving British prison drama suggests that second chances don’t come easy... and sometimes they don’t come without a price.
✅ Bushido
(Fri, May 22nd — on VOD/Digital)
A disgraced ronin fights to restore his honor in this period Japanese drama from director Kazuya Shiraishi. Tsuyoshi Kusanagi stars as a falsely accused samurai living in poverty with his daughter (Kaya Kiyohara) as his rigid honesty only deepens their hardship. With debt closing in and his name still tarnished, redemption won’t come cheap.
⇯ See Above: ✅Giant (Fri, May 22; VOD/Digital)
⇯ See Above: ✅Reckless (Fri, May 22; VOD/Digital)
📺 On TV This Week
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📺 You’re Killing Me
(Mon, May 18th — on Acorn TV)
Brooke Shields trades bestselling fiction for real-life murder in this cozy New England mystery, playing a novelist whose quiet life in Founders’ Cove goes sideways after a close friend is killed. Teaming with an aspiring writer and true-crime podcaster (played by Amalia Williamson), she starts digging into the case while a local detective (Tom Cavanagh) tries to keep them out of trouble. But as the bodies pile up, this charming little town starts looking less like a postcard and more like a crime scene with curb appeal.
📺 Wanda Sykes: Legacy
(Tues, May 19th — on Netflix)
Wanda Sykes heads back to her alma mater for a new stand-up special that sounds less like a polite lecture and more like a sharp comedy class no one should skip. The veteran comic takes on the state of the world, personal legacy, and somehow even the great washcloth debate. Leave it to Sykes to turn everyday arguments into a full-contact comedy lesson.
📺 Kylie
(Wed, May 20th — on Netflix)
Kylie Minogue gets the spotlight in this three-part docuseries tracing her journey from soap star to global pop icon. With Kylie speaking candidly about her career, reinventions, comebacks, and decades in the spotlight, the series promises a more personal look behind the polished pop image.
📺 Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed
(Wed, May 20th — on Apple TV)
Tatiana Maslany stars as a newly divorced mother who sees what looks like a violent kidnapping unfold over webcam, only to be told it’s probably just an online scam. But when the con artists seem to know every corner of her life, embarrassment turns into paranoia, and paranoia turns into action. With Jake Johnson, Dolly de Leon, Charlie Hall, and Murray Bartlett co-starring, this darkly comic thriller turns digital fraud into a full-blown rabbit hole.
📺 SkyMed: Season 4
(Thurs, May 21st — on Paramount+)
Northern Manitoba becomes a high-stakes lifeline in this rugged Canadian medical drama about seasoned nurses, pilots, and a new class of rookies thrown into the chaos of emergency air rescue. Natasha Calis, Morgan Holmstrom and Aaron Ashmore lead a crew where every call tests skill, trust, and nerves under pressure. Up in the air, second guesses don’t get much room to breathe.
📺 The Boroughs
(Thurs, May 21st — on Netflix)
Retirement gets a close encounter of the terrifying kind in this supernatural horror series executive produced by Stranger Things creators the Duffer Brothers. Alfred Molina stars as a grieving, cranky retiree newly settled in a sunny New Mexico retirement community where friendly neighbors, strange staff, and things that go bump in the night suggest something otherworldly is preying on the residents. With Geena Davis, Alfre Woodard, Clarke Peters, Denis O’Hare, and Bill Pullman co-starring, the golden years suddenly look pretty dark.
📺 Josh Johnson: Symphony
(Fri, May 22nd — on HBO Max)
Josh Johnson gets his first HBO comedy special, filmed at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles, with a set that leans into family, religion, relationships, and the strange little details that make people human. The Emmy-nominated comedian and Daily Show correspondent steps away from strictly timely takes for something a little more personal.
📺 Mating Season
(Fri, May 22nd — on Netflix)
Love gets primal in this no-holds-barred animated comedy from the minds behind Big Mouth. Set in a forest where instincts run wild, the cartoon follows a group of hormonally driven animals stumbling through romance, rejection, hookups, and messy emotions, with Nick Kroll, Zach Woods, June Diane Raphael, and Sabrina Jalees leading the voice cast. Turns out finding “the one” might be the most animalistic challenge of all.
📺 The Chi: Season 8 (Final Season)
(Fri, May 22nd — on Paramount+)
Lena Waithe’s Chicago drama heads into its final chapter, bringing the South Side community through one more winter of hard choices, personal stakes, and life-or-death consequences. Jacob Latimore, Birgundi Baker, Luke James, Shamon Brown Jr., Michael V. Epps, Hannaha Hall, and Jason Weaver return for the farewell season.
📺 The Yogurt Shop Murders: The Final Chapter
(Fri, May 22nd — on HBO Max)
This surprise fifth episode, titled “The End of Wondering,” follows the major break in the decades-old Austin yogurt shop murder case after DNA evidence identifies serial killer Robert Eugene Brashers. Directed by Margaret Brown, the final chapter includes investigators, genetic genealogist CeCe Moore, the victims’ families, and people who were wrongly accused. It’s a painful series closer about answers finally arriving, but not before years of false confessions, suspicion, and damage left behind.
📺 Bad Thoughts: Season 2
(Sun, May 24th — on Netflix)
Tom Segura returns for another six-episode batch of darkly twisted sketch comedy, built around deranged fantasies, bad ideas, and deeply warped mental detours. The new season throws him into outrageous situations where every premise seems designed to get more uncomfortable before turning sadistically funny.
📺 Rick and Morty: Season 9
(Sun, May 24th — on Adult Swim)
Back to the chaos... and then some. This new season sends everyone’s favorite mad scientist and his anxious grandson crashing through fresh dimensions, bizarre timelines, and the usual mix of existential dread and ridiculous sci-fi mayhem. With the core family along for the ride, this latest batch keeps the domestic dysfunction and universe-hopping insanity loud, weird, and unapologetically unhinged.
