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"Bird Box"
- Netflix has rolled out some hit original movies recently like "Bird Box" and "Triple Frontier."
- Analytics company Jumpshot provided Business Insider a list of the most popular original streaming movies of the year so far, and Netflix dominates.
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The Sandra Bullock-starring thriller "Bird Box" was released in December, but it's still one of the biggest movie hits for Netflix this year.
Analytics company Jumpshot provided Business Insider a list of the most popular original streaming movies of the year so far, and Netflix dominates. Only one movie in the top 20 is from a Netflix competitor: Hulu's Fyre Festival documentary, "Fyre Fraud." But Netflix's own Fyre Festival documentary, "Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened," topped the entire list.
Netflix tends to brag about the performance of some of its mediocre movies, but they are also its most watched. "Bird Box" and the action movie "Triple Frontier" weren't critical favorites, but they are the two most popular Netflix original movies of the year so far.
Two of the top five movies on the list received Rotten Tomatoes critic scores below 40%, but audiences love them.
Jumpshot created the list based on number of views each movie got in the first quarter of 2019 only on desktop devices, but the data can be used as a proxy of a movie's relative popularity.
Below are the 20 most popular original streaming movies of 2019, so far: