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Entertainment is not cancelled.

Besides Netflix releasing tons of new and old movies this May, there are many other movies coming out this month that you just can’t miss.

Here’s a list from the BBC with all the movies to watch this coming month, from documentaries of unsettling old-age paradises to fighting neo-nazis in german thrillers.

Throw in some magical realism with a movie about a boy trying to save his sick mom, and an anti-capitalism protest gone haywire, and you have yourself more entertainment than you could probably get through.

Enjoy the trailers so long:

Some Kind of Heaven

We’ve covered this one before, but a reminder that it’s out there never hurt anyone.

Have you ever wondered where old people with money go to retire in America? Well, Lance Oppenheim’s documentary, produced by Darren Aronofsky, explores The Villages – the world’s largest retirement community.

Nicknamed “Disneyland For Retirees”, it sprawls across sunny Florida and offers every imaginable leisure activity and amenity.

But there is something unsettling about this artificial paradise. “What Oppenheim has found, in his first feature film, is a real place every bit as art-directed as Blue Velvet or Edward Scissorhands or American Beauty,” says AA Dowd in the AV Club.

Available from May 14.

And Tomorrow the Entire World 

This is a German-French political thriller inspired by the experiences of its director, Julia von Heinz, with a rather relevant take on fighting against neo-nazis and fascism:

Mala Emde plays Luisa, an aristocratic law student who moves into a grungy urban commune run by anti-fascist activists. Luisa and her comrades loathe the local far-right thugs, but their own counterattacks grow more dangerous and morally complicated with unnerving speed.

“The sheer energy and sense of mission in this breathlessly-paced, intimate drama will pull audiences right along with it,” says Todd McCarthy in Deadline, “as it intently addresses the extent of personal commitment necessary for those who might want to make a difference.”

It will be released on May 6 in the US.

The Water Man 

The hero of this film is Gunner (Lonnie Chavis), an imaginative boy whose mother (Rosario Dawson) has leukemia. Determined to save her, he hikes deep into a forest in search of the “Water Man”, a legendary figure who has learned how to live forever.

“It’s a tricky balancing act to take an audience from a terminally-ill mom to an avalanche of insects,” writes Alonso Duralde of The Wrap, “but director David Oyelowo (working from Emma Needell’s screenplay) gets all the tones just right in The Water Man, a kid adventure that recalls the sort of ripping juvenile yarns that Disney, and later Amblin, used to crank out on a regular basis.”

Oyelowo, best known for playing Martin Luther King Jr in Selma, makes his feature directorial debut here, and delivers a “well-acted, great-looking movie”.

It will be released on May 7 in the US.

Cruella 

This movie looks fun, all about the Cruella from 101 Dalmatians, but before she became a puppy-killing maniac:

Not only does the gothic trailer make it look like a Tim Burton Batman movie, but it was directed by Craig Gillespie (I, Tonya) and co-written by Tony McNamara (The Favourite), so it should be stranger and spikier than the average Disney film.

Emma Stone, the star of The Favourite, puts on her haughtiest English accent to play Estella – a punky fashion designer who is desperate for fame and fortune in 1970s London.

It will come out internationally in cinemas and on Disney+ on May 28.

New Order

If you’re an anti-capitalist, then this one is for you.

Brutally violent and harrowingly pessimistic, Michel Franco’s unflinching drama opens at a high-society wedding in a snazzy modernist townhouse in Mexico.

The assembled guests are sipping champagne and sniffing cocaine when a crowd of anti-capitalist protesters scale the walls of their designer enclave.

A grisly home-invasion thriller follows – but that’s just the start. Franco goes on to chart the aftermath of the protests, as an amoral regime declares martial law, making the city even more dystopian than it was before.

Coming out May 21 in the US.

For more, head over to the BBC.

[source:bbc]