The 10 most watched movies of all time according to Netflix
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Netflix has revealed its ten most-watched original movies of all time, seven of which have been released in the past two years and most of which have not been critically acclaimed.
The two films with overall good reviews were Scorsese’s 2019 hit The Irishman, which was nominated for best picture at the Oscars, and more recently 2022’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, starring Daniel Craig.
Netflix’s rating considers how many hours the movie was watched in the 28 days after it was released. The list, therefore, would not give credit to films that grew in popularity some time after their release.
It is also noteworthy that in the last five years, the number of Netflix subscribers has grown significantly, increasing the number of people who could access more recent movies. When The Irishman was released in 2019, Netflix had 158 million subscribers, but when its most watched movie Red Notice was released in 2021, it had 222 million.
Of the top ten, five have Rotten Tomatoes scores below 60 percent.
Netflix has revealed its ten most-watched original movies of all time, seven of which have been released in the past two years, and most of which have not been released to critical acclaim.
Netflix had 158 million subscribers when The Irishman was released in 2019, but when its most watched movie Red Notice was released in 2021, it had 222 million.
1. Red Notice (2021) 364 million hours
Starring: Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot
Rotten tomatoes: 36 percent
In this action comedy, an Interpol agent tries to track down and capture notorious international art thieves.
Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot star in Netflix’s most watched movie of all time, Red Notice (2021)
2. Don’t look up (2021) 360 million hours
Rotten tomatoes: 56 percent
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Jennifer Lawrence, TimothƩe Chalamet and Jonah Hill
A satirical film about two unknown astronomers trying to warn the world about a comet heading towards Earth.
Leonardo DiCaprio plays an astronomer on a mission to alert the world to an incoming comet in Don’t Look Up (2021)
3. Bird Box (2018) 282 million hours
Rotten tomatoes: 64 percent
Starring: Sandra Bullock and John Malkovich
A horror thriller based on a 2014 novel of the same name. It tells the story of a woman and her children struggling to survive in a post-apocalyptic world in which a mysterious entity is wiping out a large part of the population.
Sandra Bullock plays a woman on a mission to save her children in Bird Box (2018)
4. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) 280 million hours
Rotten tomatoes: 92 percent
Cast: Daniel Craig, Edward Norton
A sequel to the 2019 film, Knives Out, in which Detective Benoit Blanc returns to take on a case involving a tech billionaire hosting a murder mystery game on his private island in Greece.
Daniel Craig returns as Detective Benoit Blanc in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
5. The Gray Man (2022) 254 million hours
Rotten tomatoes: 46 percent
Cast: Ryan Gosling, Ana de Armas, Chris Evans
Based on a 2008 novel, the film follows a CIA agent who discovers secrets about his superior, sparking a coordinated manhunt by a former colleague.
Ryan Reynolds plays a CIA agent who is hunted by a former colleague and assassins in The Gray Man (2022)
6. The Adam Project (2022) 233 million hours
Rotten tomatoes: 67 percent
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Walker Scobell, Jennifer Garner, Mark Ruffalo
A sci-fi movie in which a time-traveling fighter pilot crash-lands in 2022 and teams up with a 12-year-old version of himself to change the future and save the world.
Ryan Reynolds goes back in time and joins his former self in The Adam Project (2022)
7. Extraction (2020) 232 million hours
Rotten tomatoes: 67 percent
Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Rudhraksh Jaiswal
An Australian ex-SAS soldier turned mercenary is hired to track down the missing son of an Indian crime boss and embarks on a mission gone wrong in Bangladesh.
Chris Hemsworth debuts in Extraction (2020) in which he is hired to rescue the son of a crime boss
8. Purple Hearts (2022) 229 million hours
Rotten tomatoes: 35 percent
Cast: Sofia Carson, Nicholas Galitzine
A romance, based on a novel of the same name, in which a marine and an aspiring musician marry to receive military benefits and pay off their debts.
Sofia Carson and Nicholas Galitzine play aspiring musicians and sailors in the romance Purple Hearts (2022)
9. The Unforgivable (2021) 215 million hours
Rotten tomatoes: 38 percent
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Jon Bernthal
A woman who served 20 years in prison for a murder is reunited with her younger sister and tries to rebuild her life, but people are reluctant to forgive her.
Sandra Bullock served 20 years in prison for a murder in The Unforgivable (2021)
10. The Irishman (2019) 215 million hours
Rotten tomatoes: 95 percent
Cast: Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Al Pacino, Harvey Keitel, Anna Paquin, Stephen Graham
A Martin Scorsese film that follows a trucker who becomes involved with a Pennsylvania mobster and his crime family and becomes a hit man.
Robert DeNiro and Joe Pesci in The Irishman (2019)