5 Prime Video Movies in May 2026 With 90%+ on Rotten Tomatoes

Prime Video quietly dropped one of its biggest single-day movie hauls of the year on May 1, adding dozens of titles to its library. But if you’re looking for a place to start — specifically, films that critics have already done the hard work of vetting — five of those new arrivals carry a Rotten Tomatoes score of 90% or higher. That’s a pretty reliable shortcut to a good night in.

The range here is genuinely impressive. You’ve got a four-time Oscar winner from 1977, a beloved talking-pig movie from 1995, a McConaughey career-defining drama, Edgar Wright’s action-comedy masterpiece, and a scrappy 2020 genre-blender that flew under most people’s radar. Something for every mood.

Annie Hall (1977) — 97% on Rotten Tomatoes

Before Woody Allen’s Annie Hall, romantic comedies were largely slapstick or polished fantasies. This film essentially rewired how cinema approaches relationships, memory, and the fourth wall. It won four Academy Awards at the 1978 ceremony — including Best Picture and Best Director — and it still holds up as one of the sharpest, most charming films ever made about why love falls apart.

Allen stars as Alvy Singer, a New York comedian looking back on his relationship with Annie Hall (Diane Keaton), an aspiring nightclub singer. The story moves freely between flashbacks, arguments, family visits, and trips, with Alvy trying — and mostly failing — to understand how things changed. Co-written with Marshall Brickman, it’s relaxed and free-flowing in a way that still feels slightly ahead of its time.

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Babe (1995) — 98% on Rotten Tomatoes

The highest-rated film on this list, and honestly, it’s not hard to see why. Babe looks like a simple children’s movie on the surface, but it earned seven Academy Award nominations and was one of the first films to use digital mouth-replacement technology — meaning real animals appear to speak without looking like a cartoon. It’s a technical achievement wrapped in something genuinely sweet.

The story follows a young piglet won at a county fair by farmer Arthur Hoggett (James Cromwell), who gets taken in by a Border Collie named Fly (voiced by Miriam Margolyes) and slowly discovers he has an unexpected gift for herding sheep. Hugo Weaving voices Fly’s no-nonsense partner Rex. If you’ve been curious about the upcoming talking-animal film The Sheep Detectives, consider this essential homework.

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Dallas Buyers Club (2013) — 92% on Rotten Tomatoes

This is the film that completed Matthew McConaughey’s pivot from rom-com lead to serious dramatic actor — and it’s remembered as much for its production backstory as for the film itself. McConaughey underwent a dramatic physical transformation for the role, losing significant weight to play Ron Woodroof, a Texas electrician and rodeo rider diagnosed with HIV in the mid-1980s.

Told he has limited time to live, Woodroof begins researching treatments after struggling to access legal medication in the US. He travels internationally to obtain alternative drugs and eventually forms an underground distribution network — the Dallas Buyers Club — to get them to other patients. It’s a biographical drama that deals in heavy themes of mortality and systemic failure, but it never loses sight of the human being at its center. Jared Leto won a Supporting Actor Oscar alongside McConaughey’s lead win at the 2014 ceremony.

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Hot Fuzz (2007) — 91% on Rotten Tomatoes

The second installment in Edgar Wright’s Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy — sandwiched between Shaun of the Dead and The World’s End — Hot Fuzz is technically a parody of action cinema, but it functions more as a high-octane love letter to the genre. It’s one of the tightest, funniest comedies of the 21st century, and a lot of that comes down to the genuine chemistry between Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

Pegg plays Nicholas Angel, a hyper-competent London police officer reassigned to a sleepy rural village after making his colleagues look bad. He’s partnered with Danny Butterman (Frost), an enthusiastic local cop whose entire understanding of police work comes from action movies. When a series of deaths in the village get ruled as accidents, Angel starts pulling at threads. What unravels is genuinely surprising, extremely violent, and very, very funny.

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The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020) — 90% on Rotten Tomatoes

The most under-the-radar film on this list, and maybe the most rewatchable. Written, directed by, and starring Jim Cummings, The Wolf of Snow Hollow is a genuine genre-blender — part small-town procedural, part creature feature, part character study — set in a Utah mountain town where brutal killings are occurring during full moons.

Cummings plays John, the local sheriff already buckling under personal and professional pressure, who leads the investigation while desperately trying to convince himself there’s no supernatural explanation for what’s happening. As the body count rises, the community fractures and the case spirals. A lot of the film’s comedy comes from the awkward, exhausted human interactions happening around a genuinely disturbing mystery. It arrived in 2020 without much fanfare, which means most people still haven’t seen it.

Now’s a good time to fix that.

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