The most popular Netflix movies of all time, including 'Red Notice' and 'The Gray Man'
Travis Clark
- "Red Notice" is Netflix's biggest original movie ever, with 364 million hours watched in its first month.
- "The Gray Man" finished at No. 4 on the service.
10. "The Kissing Booth 2" (2020) — 209.25 million hours
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
9. "The Irishman" (2019) — 214.57 million hours
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
8. "The Unforgivable" (2021) — 214.70 million hours
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
7. "Purple Hearts" (2022) — 228.69 million hours
Description: "An aspiring musician agrees to a marriage of convenience with a soon-to-deploy Marine, but a tragedy soon turns their fake relationship all too real."
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 32%
What critics said: "This super-cheap Netflix Original is so determined to satisfy the algorithm that it would lack any coherent sense of self if not for the fact that it was chiefly designed as a star vehicle for Disney Channel grad Sofia Carson." — Indiewire
6. "Extraction" (2020) — 231.3 million hours
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
5. "The Adam Project" (2022) — 233.15 million hours
Description: "After accidentally crash-landing in 2022, time-traveling fighter pilot Adam Reed teams up with his 12-year-old self on a mission to save the future."
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 69%
What critics said: "It's an assemblage of ideas from other popular films that just hangs there with little cohesion. It's like watching a movie that hasn't been made yet." — Vulture
4. "The Gray Man" (2022) — 253.87 million hours
Description: "When a shadowy CIA agent uncovers damning agency secrets, he's hunted across the globe by a sociopathic rogue operative who's put a bounty on his head."
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 46%
What critics said: "The film exists to set up sequels, to spend money on fancy location shoots, and to look glamorous and exciting; every harder edge has been sanded down to nothing." — The Atlantic
3. "Bird Box" (2018) — 282.02 million hours
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
2. "Don't Look Up" (2021) — 359.79 million
Description: "Two astronomers go on a media tour to warn humankind of a planet-killing comet hurtling toward Earth."
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 55%
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
1. "Red Notice" (2021) — 364.02 million hours
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
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