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May is usually the slightly quiet time for movies before the big summer blockbusters of the summer, but Netflix had a few hits on its hands this month.
Netflix's May releases was a real mixed bag, including broad comedies (Rebel Wilson's Senior Year), true-crime documentaries (Our Father) and British period dramas (Operation Mincemeat, starring Colin Firth). Also, a new CGI Marmaduke voiced by Pete Davidson, which apparently exists.
The most viewed films of the month also included an Adam Sandler classic, an extended version of the new Jackass movie and plenty of guns and gangsters. Here's which movie had the most viewers this month in the U.S. (per streaming analytics company FlixPatrol).
The 10 Most Viewed Movies on Netflix in May 2022
10. Happy Gilmore
For better or for worse, Adam Sandler is the King of Netflix, with his movies for the streamer among the site's most watched. Viewers may have to wait until for his new movie Hustle, but in the meantime they have been enjoying one of his funniest films in Happy Gilmore.
9. Jackass 4.5
Did you watch Jackass Forever and think to yourself, "yeah, pretty good, but are there any more ways for Steve-O's genitals to be mutilated?" The answer is yes, and those ways are revealed in this extended version of the latest movie from Johnny Knoxville and the gang.
8. A Perfect Pairing
Netflix and trashy romantic comedies seem to be a perfect pairing for many of the service's subscribers, explaining this popularity of this movie starring Victoria Justice and Adam Demos (of that scene in Sex/Life fame)
7. The Gentlemen
Like guns, "geezers," and...well, that's pretty much it actually? Guy Ritchie's all-star (and Charlie Hunnam) gangster movie is for you. The film was one of the last to get a cinematic release before COVID shut theaters down, so presumably viewers have been watching to get back to the simpler time of January 2020.
6. Operation Mincemeat
Every six months, as if by law, Britain releases a new starry and stately drama about the Second World War. Earlier this year, Netflix gave us the Jeremy Irons-starring Munich: The Edge of War, and now it's the turn of Colin Firth and this incredible true story of a plot to fool the Nazis.
5. Marmaduke
Yes, Netflix really did release a movie in May 2022 that had Pete Davidson voicing the classic comic-strip dog. The film has a zero percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but judging by its position here, some people out there liked it/were dropped in front of it by their parents and do not have the motor skills yet to turn it off.
4. U.S. Marshals
It is fitting that this 1998 spinoff to The Fugitive is doing well on Netflix, because this is exactly the kind of mid-tier action movie that would go straight to streaming these days.
3. Den of Thieves
Not to be confused with Netflix's own heist drama Army of Thieves. Den of Thieves is the Gerard Butler movie about a group trying to stop a heist on the Federal Reserve Bank. A sequel is filming now, which is good to know if you have already burned through the approximately 28,000 heist films in the Netflix catalog.
2. Our Father
If Netflix does not chill you to the core at least once per month with a true-crime documentary, it is not doing its job. The latest attempt is this disturbing true story about a fertility doctor who implanted patients with his own sperm. Imagine the plot of Vince Vaughn comedy Delivery Man, but horrifying in a different way.
1. Senior Year
If bad Hollywood comedies have taught us anything, it is that old people pretending to be young and/or falling over a lot are supposed to be hilarious. Senior Year has both thanks to a story in which Rebel Wilson goes back to high school after slipping into a coma from a cheerleading stunt gone wrong 20 years ago.
