Looking for a great movie to watch this May? Look no further than these thrillers, some of the best movies on Netflix, including Dark Waters and One More Shot.
We’re in the dead middle of May and on the cusp of several huge releases to the usher in the summer season. If you’re looking for a trio of blood-chilling, adrenaline-pumping, and heart-racing thrillers to tide you over until this year’s summer blockbusters, you’ve come to the right place.
This month’s selections include Todd Haynes’ 2019 legal thriller based on real-life events, an explosive action thriller starring Scott Adkins, and a steamy neo-noir featuring a charismatic performance by a young Jeff Bridges.Editor’s pick: Dark Waters
Director: Todd Haynes
Cast: Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins
Fans of Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway, and director Todd Haynes all seemed to miss one of their finer works of the last few years: Dark Waters, a legal thriller that does for teflon pans what All the President’s Men did for presidents’ men.
Based on an equally riveting New York Times Magazine expose, and adapted by Matthew Michael Carnahan (The Kingdom), Dark Waters stars Ruffalo as Robert Billet, a real life corporate defense lawyer who is basically guilt tripped into investigating a string of unusual deaths in West Virginia. But as he begrudgingly pokes around, Billet finds that each death traces back to a chemical plant owned by DuPont, and what unravels is one of the great atrocities committed on American soil by a major corporation.
