3 Must-Watch New Hulu Movies With Stellar Rotten Tomatoes Scores (May 2026)
May is here, and Hulu just dropped a fresh wave of heavy hitters. Watch With Us sifted the lineup to bring you three unmissable movies to stream right now.
New month, new stuff to watch. Hulu just rolled out a fresh batch for May, and I cherry-picked three easy wins you can queue up right now. Bonus: every one of them sits at 90 percent or higher on Rotten Tomatoes. No homework, no guesswork.
The Departed (2006) - 91% on Rotten Tomatoes
South Boston cop Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio ) burrows into the crew of local mob boss Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson). At the same time, one of Costello's guys, Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon ), is already embedded inside the police. Both sides figure out they've got a mole, which turns the whole thing into a deadly race to unmask the other guy first.
Yes, the Best Picture winner is Martin Scorsese doing what he does best, and here's the fun twist a lot of people still miss: it 's a remake of the Hong Kong thriller 'Infernal Affairs.' The English-language version comes loaded with a stacked supporting cast — Mark Wahlberg, Alec Baldwin, Martin Sheen — all snapping through William Monahan's sharp script. If you're even remotely into crime sagas, this is essential viewing.
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977 ) - 94% on Rotten Tomatoes
In a galaxy far, far away, the Empire's enforcer Darth Vader (voiced by James Earl Jones) nabs Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) as the Empire tries to stomp out a scrappy rebellion. Meanwhile, farm kid Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) teams up with smuggler Han Solo (Harrison Ford), Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew), and droids R2-D2 (Kenny Baker) and C-3PO (Anthony Daniels) to rescue Leia and kick-start the fight back.
The first Star Wars still works like gangbusters: a simple hero's journey that blossoms into full-on space opera with big adventure, weird creatures, and characters you remember forever. Decades on, the blend of action, humor, and heart still feels fresh. And once you finish 'A New Hope,' you can stick around Hulu for the rest of the original trilogy.
Sicario ( 2015) - 91% on Rotten Tomatoes
After a big drug raid, by-the-book FBI agent Kate Mercer (Emily Blunt) gets tapped for a hush-hush task force led by CIA operator Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) and his very opaque partner, Alejandro Gillick (Benicio del Toro). The stated mission sounds straightforward: grab a major cartel boss running operations inside the U.S. Then the lines start blurring as Kate realizes the team is leaning on methods that are... let's say not exactly in the manual.
It's a grim, gripping thriller about how messy the war on drugs really is, directed by 'Dune 's' Denis Villeneuve. The set pieces are surgical, the atmosphere is suffocating in the best way, and the tension never lets up. Blunt and Brolin are terrific, but del Toro quietly walks off with the movie as Alejandro.