Director Adam McKay's "Don't Look Up" topped Netflix's weekly ranking of its most popular movies for the second week in a row — and is already one of the streamer's top movies of all time.
The climate change satire — starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence as astronomers who discover a planet-killing comet is hurtling toward Earth, and are dismayed at the US government's lack of urgency — was watched for 152.29 million hours globally from December 27 to January 2, according to Netflix.
Every Tuesday, Netflix updates its most popular movies and TV shows based on hours watched during the previous week.
"Don't Look Up" was already Netflix's third biggest movie of all time 10 days after it debuted on the streaming service, with 263.32 million hours watched in that time period, the streamer said. Netflix's all-time ranking is based on the movies' first 28 days, so it could rise in the ranking in the coming weeks.
Here are the streamer's top five movies of all time, based on hours watched in their first month:
Experts see "Don't Look Up" as one of Netflix's biggest Oscar contenders this year.
The Hollywood Reporter's awards analyst, Scott Feinberg, ranked it as one of the 10 potential best-picture nominees in his latest forecast. McKay won an Oscar for adapted screenplay for 2015's "The Big Short" and his Dick Cheney movie "Vice" was nominated for eight Oscars including best picture.
But critics have been split on the movie and it currently has a 56% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes. Insider's Jason Guerrasio ranked it among his top five movies of the year, while others have criticized its on-the-nose satire.
"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," Alison Willmore wrote for Vulture.
Below are the top 10 movies on Netflix globally from December 27 to January 2 (Insider combined Netflix's English and non-English lists):