The top ten Netflix movies list can change pretty quickly, but this week’s most-watched movies are even more volatile than usual. There are not one, not two, but eight new entries, each racking up millions of views. Spicy drama Heart of De Jager remains at number one and Lady, at number five, spends its fifth week on the chart. But all other entries are new this week.
In order from top to bottom, the new entries are:
- The little things
- The maze runner
- Glass
- The beautiful game
- Spoon
- Baby driver
- Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
- Letters to God
So which one should you look at first? I would recommend these three.
Baby driver
Edgar Wright’s 2017 action film is loads of fun, starring Miles – the baby of the title, played by Ansel Elgort – as a young getaway driver who has left the criminal world to live a quiet life. Luckily for viewers, that quiet life doesn’t last long, otherwise it wouldn’t really be a movie. What happens next is extremely stylish, extremely exciting and comes with an absolutely killer soundtrack. If Alternative lens says: “Every scene is practically timed to the music down to the smallest movements, which only heightens the energy of every moment… no amount of ridiculous Fast & Furious car stunts could one day match the palpable, ticking energy that the chases here deliver.
Glass
M Night Shyalaman’s 2019 superhero film is darker than your average superdrama, and it’s the third film in the director’s line-up. Unbreakable trilogy. That means the return of Bruce Willis, Samuel L Jackson, Spencer Treat Clark and Charlayne Woodard out Unbreakable and James McAvoy and Anya Taylor-Joy from Split. McAvoy is The Horde, a villain with dissociative identity disorder, while Willis is David Dunn, the regular Joe who gained superpowers after surviving a train crash. And then there’s Mr. Glass, Samuel L. Jackson’s ultra-fragile supervillain, who is currently being held in a mental institution. Will their paths cross? You can probably guess the answer to that.
It’s a deeply divisive film – the people who don’t like it Real don’t like it, and it has a pretty low 37% on Rotten Tomatoes – but it’s also unusual and ambitious. ComicBookMovie.com loved it and called it “an absolute blast”, while Smash Cut Reviews said it is “ambitious and wild. It totally works in some aspects and fails in others. But I’m glad it exists.”
Spoon
I’ll watch pretty much anything with Gillian Anderson in it, and she’s in good form here playing real-life journalist Emily Maitlis in a drama based on Maitlis’ car-crash interview with England’s Prince Andrew about his relationship with sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein. It’s not perfect – it’s perhaps a little too fond of the journalists it portrays, and rich magazine felt that “it struggles to convey the seriousness of Epstein’s crimes, or the things Andrew has been accused of; like The Crown, it also has a somewhat exaggerated belief in the importance of the monarchy” – but it is a gripping story nonetheless. drama that will help non-Brits understand why we make fun of a South West England branch of Pizza Express.