The most popular Netflix movies of all time, including 'Red Notice' and 'Don't Look Up'
"Red Notice" is now Netflix's biggest original movie of all time, with 364 million hours watched in its first four weeks.
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- "Red Notice" is Netflix's biggest original movie ever, with 364 million hours watched in its first month.
- "Don't Look Up" entered Netflix's top 10 movies of all time after 10 days with 263 million hours.
- Netflix's primary metric of hours viewed in the first 28 days gives a boost to longer movies like the three-and-a-half-hour "Irishman."
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Description: "While searching for her missing mother, intrepid teen Enola Holmes uses her sleuthing skills to outsmart big brother Sherlock and help a runaway lord."
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 91%
What critics said: "While the mystery might be elementary (my dear, notably absent, Watson), the storytelling is winkingly subversive, proclaiming that a new and welcome game is afoot." — Entertainment Weekly
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Description: "Spenser, an ex-cop and ex-con, teams up with aspiring fighter Hawk to uncover a sinister conspiracy tied to the deaths of two Boston police officers."
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 37%
What critics said: "It's an action-comedy-mystery-thriller that manages to spectacularly fail at all the above, an algorithmic abomination that's as coldly constructed as it is clumsily made." — Guardian
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Description: "After faking his death, a tech billionaire recruits a team of international operatives for a bold and bloody mission to take down a brutal dictator."
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 36%
What critics said: "Bay's clumsy but visually impressive movie should partly sate anyone waiting for the superior thrills and spills of the next Fast & Furious outing." — NME
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Description: "Released from prison into a society that won't forgive her, a woman convicted of murder searches for the little sister she was forced to leave behind."
Rotten Tomatoes critics score: 37%
What critics said: "A dreadful and dreary melodrama ... despite Bullock's noble efforts to play against type, 'The Unforgivable' is largely forgettable." — Salon
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Description: "With college decisions looming, Elle juggles her long-distance romance with Noah, changing relationship with bestie Lee and feelings for a new classmate."
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 27%
What critics said: "You can soak in the movie's basic premise and overacting just as long as you know this pool's shallow." — RogerEbert.com
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Description: "Hit man Frank Sheeran looks back at the secrets he kept as a loyal member of the Bufalino crime family in this acclaimed film from Martin Scorsese."
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 95%
What critics said: "While 'The Irishman' is like many mob movies about violence and betrayal, it's a work of a filmmaker who has earned the right to sum up this genre." — NPR
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Description: "A hardened mercenary's mission becomes a soul-searching race to survive when he's sent into Bangladesh to rescue a drug lord's kidnapped son."
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 67%
What critics said: "The one big weapon it has — Hemsworth's ability to juxtapose his brawn with approachable charm — is one it never pulls from its holster." — Polygon
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Description: "Two astronomers go on a media tour to warn humankind of a planet-killing comet hurtling toward Earth."
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 56%
What critics said: "McKay's movies are not particularly pointed in their satire and, as time has gone on, have increasingly settled into their preferred form of a harangue." — Vulture
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Description: "Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety."
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 64%
What critics said: "Unfortunately, Bird Box puts these performers through familiar paces, in roles of such tight typecasting that they seem like recurring characters in an extended TV series." — New Yorker
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Description: "An FBI profiler pursuing the world's most wanted art thief becomes his reluctant partner in crime to catch an elusive crook who's always one step ahead."
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 36%
What critics said: "Red Notice is limp and dull, and does more to showcase the shortcomings of each of its marquee idols than it does to highlight their bankable charisma." — Vanity Fair