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The most popular Netflix movies of all time, including 'Red Notice' and 'The Gray Man'

Travis Clark   

The most popular Netflix movies of all time, including 'Red Notice' and 'The Gray Man'
Ryan Gosling in "The Gray Man."Netflix
  • "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

10. "The Kissing Booth 2" (2020) — 209.25 million hours
"The Kissing Booth 2"      Netflix

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

9. "The Irishman" (2019) — 214.57 million hours
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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

8. "The Unforgivable" (2021) — 214.70 million hours

8. "The Unforgivable" (2021) — 214.70 million hours
Kimberley French/Netflix

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

7. "Purple Hearts" (2022) — 228.69 million hours
Sofia Carson and Nicholas Galitzine in "Purple Hearts."      Mark Fellman/Netflix

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

6. "Extraction" (2020) — 231.3 million hours
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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

5. "The Adam Project" (2022) — 233.15 million hours

5. "The Adam Project" (2022) — 233.15 million hours
"The Adam Project."      Netflix

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

4. "The Gray Man" (2022) — 253.87 million hours
Ryan Gosling as Six in "The Gray Man."      Netflix

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

3. "Bird Box" (2018) — 282.02 million hours
"Bird Box"      Netflix

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

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Meryl Streep in "Don't Look Up."      Netflix

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

1. "Red Notice" (2021) — 364.02 million hours
Dwayne Johnson in "Red Notice."      Netflix

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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