The 100 most-watched Netflix films, rated by critics and audiences
Across the 100 most-watched Netflix films, IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes differ by a median of 16 points. Critics scored higher on 27 films, audiences on 45, and the scores agree within 9 points on 28. Scores as of October 21, 2026, via OMDb. A full analysis is published for 0 of 100 films so far; the rest are listed below with their scores.
16Median gap in points
27Films where critics scored higher
45Films where audiences scored higher
0Full analyses published
How is the list built?
Films are ranked by the hours viewed that Netflix publishes: the larger of the total weekly hours across every week of Netflix's global weekly Top 10 (weeks 2021-07-04 to 2026-10-04) and the hours in the first 91 days from Netflix's Most Popular list. Films are taken in that order until 100 pass four checks against OMDb: the title is a movie, its runtime is within 12 minutes of the runtime Netflix lists (where Netflix lists one), IMDb has a rating from at least 5,000 votes, and a Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score is present. Films that fail a check are skipped and listed as popular but not scored. No score is ever estimated.
- Popularity: Netflix's published Top 10 data (July 4, 2021 to October 4, 2026, downloaded October 20, 2026). Films ranked in Netflix's Top 10 are listed by hours viewed; being in the list says nothing about what is on Netflix today.
- Scores: the IMDb rating and Rotten Tomatoes percentage for each film, from OMDb, fetched October 21, 2026. Gap = Rotten Tomatoes percentage minus the IMDb rating times ten, so a positive gap means critics scored higher. How the two scores are built is explained in IMDb vs Rotten Tomatoes.
- Method background: our earlier 44-film study of Netflix Originals is a separate dated study with its own film list.
All 100 films, most-watched first
| # | Film | Year | IMDb | RT | Gap | Metascore |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | KPop Demon Hunters | 2025 | 7.4 | 92% | +18 | 77 |
| 2 | Red Notice | 2021 | 6.3 | 36% | -27 | 37 |
| 3 | Carry-On | 2024 | 6.5 | 87% | +22 | 69 |
| 4 | Leave the World Behind | 2023 | 6.4 | 73% | +9 | 68 |
| 5 | Bird Box | 2018 | 6.6 | 64% | -2 | 51 |
| 6 | The Adam Project | 2022 | 6.7 | 68% | +1 | 55 |
| 7 | Back in Action | 2025 | 5.9 | 31% | -28 | 46 |
| 8 | The Gray Man | 2022 | 6.5 | 45% | -20 | 49 |
| 9 | War Machine | 2026 | 6.3 | 66% | +3 | 54 |
| 10 | Swapped | 2026 | 7.2 | 69% | -3 | 56 |
| 11 | The Mother | 2023 | 5.7 | 42% | -15 | 45 |
| 12 | Purple Hearts | 2022 | 6.7 | 32% | -35 | 30 |
| 13 | Society of the Snow | 2024 | 7.8 | 90% | +12 | 72 |
| 14 | Rebel Ridge | 2024 | 6.8 | 95% | +27 | 76 |
| 15 | Damsel | 2024 | 6.1 | 56% | -5 | 46 |
| 16 | Frankenstein | 2025 | 7.4 | 85% | +11 | 78 |
| 17 | Happy Gilmore 2 | 2025 | 6.1 | 61% | 0 | 52 |
| 18 | The Unforgivable | 2021 | 7.2 | 40% | -32 | 41 |
| 19 | The Rip | 2026 | 6.7 | 77% | +10 | 63 |
| 20 | Leo | 2023 | 7.0 | 82% | +12 | 65 |
| 21 | Hustle | 2022 | 7.3 | 94% | +21 | 68 |
| 22 | Troll | 2022 | 5.8 | 90% | +32 | 62 |
| 23 | Heart of Stone | 2023 | 5.7 | 31% | -26 | 44 |
| 24 | The Union | 2024 | 5.5 | 36% | -19 | 44 |
| 25 | Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire | 2023 | 5.6 | 22% | -34 | 31 |
| 26 | Straw | 2025 | 6.5 | 53% | -12 | 56 |
| 27 | The Sea Beast | 2022 | 7.0 | 94% | +24 | 74 |
| 28 | Under Paris | 2024 | 5.2 | 63% | +11 | 57 |
| 29 | Apex | 2026 | 6.1 | 68% | +7 | 58 |
| 30 | Luther: The Fallen Sun | 2023 | 6.4 | 68% | +4 | 53 |
| 31 | All Quiet on the Western Front | 2022 | 7.8 | 90% | +12 | 76 |
| 32 | Lift | 2024 | 5.6 | 30% | -26 | 40 |
| 33 | The Super Mario Bros. Movie | 2023 | 7.0 | 59% | -11 | 46 |
| 34 | The Life List | 2025 | 6.8 | 46% | -22 | 49 |
| 35 | The Tinder Swindler | 2022 | 7.1 | 97% | +26 | none |
| 36 | The Man from Toronto | 2022 | 5.9 | 25% | -34 | 34 |
| 37 | Senior Year | 2022 | 5.5 | 23% | -32 | 47 |
| 38 | Voicemails for Isabelle | 2026 | 7.3 | 88% | +15 | 62 |
| 39 | Despicable Me 2 | 2013 | 7.3 | 75% | +2 | 62 |
| 40 | Enola Holmes 2 | 2022 | 6.8 | 93% | +25 | 64 |
| 41 | The Great Flood | 2025 | 5.4 | 60% | +6 | none |
| 42 | Murder Mystery 2 | 2023 | 5.7 | 45% | -12 | 44 |
| 43 | The Boss Baby | 2017 | 6.3 | 53% | -10 | 50 |
| 44 | Army of Thieves | 2021 | 6.4 | 69% | +5 | 49 |
| 45 | The Last House | 2026 | 5.5 | 22% | -33 | 42 |
| 46 | Sing 2 | 2021 | 7.3 | 72% | -1 | 49 |
| 47 | Me Time | 2022 | 5.1 | 7% | -44 | 25 |
| 48 | A Family Affair | 2024 | 5.4 | 50% | -4 | 43 |
| 49 | You People | 2023 | 5.5 | 39% | -16 | 50 |
| 50 | Day Shift | 2022 | 6.1 | 58% | -3 | 51 |
| 51 | Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F | 2024 | 6.4 | 63% | -1 | 53 |
| 52 | The School for Good and Evil | 2022 | 5.9 | 38% | -21 | 30 |
| 53 | Atlas | 2024 | 5.7 | 17% | -40 | 37 |
| 54 | Sing | 2016 | 7.1 | 71% | 0 | 59 |
| 55 | Havoc | 2025 | 5.6 | 64% | +8 | 57 |
| 56 | Reptile | 2023 | 6.8 | 45% | -23 | 52 |
| 57 | Blood Red Sky | 2021 | 6.1 | 81% | +20 | 43 |
| 58 | Love Hard | 2021 | 6.3 | 50% | -13 | 42 |
| 59 | Our Little Secret | 2024 | 5.7 | 37% | -20 | 41 |
| 60 | Your Place or Mine | 2023 | 5.7 | 31% | -26 | 49 |
| 61 | A House of Dynamite | 2025 | 6.4 | 75% | +11 | 75 |
| 62 | The Platform | 2020 | 7.0 | 81% | +11 | 73 |
| 63 | My Oxford Year | 2025 | 5.9 | 31% | -28 | 39 |
| 64 | Shrek | 2001 | 7.9 | 89% | +10 | 84 |
| 65 | The Good Nurse | 2022 | 6.8 | 74% | +6 | 65 |
| 66 | Falling for Christmas | 2022 | 5.3 | 62% | +9 | 40 |
| 67 | Luckiest Girl Alive | 2022 | 6.4 | 42% | -22 | 54 |
| 68 | The Kissing Booth 3 | 2021 | 4.8 | 25% | -23 | 36 |
| 69 | The Electric State | 2025 | 5.9 | 14% | -45 | 30 |
| 70 | 72 Hours | 2026 | 5.4 | 17% | -37 | 41 |
| 71 | Sweet Girl | 2021 | 5.6 | 24% | -32 | 46 |
| 72 | Back to the Outback | 2021 | 6.5 | 81% | +16 | 58 |
| 73 | The Killer | 2023 | 6.7 | 85% | +18 | 73 |
| 74 | 365 Days: This Day | 2022 | 2.8 | 0% | -28 | none |
| 75 | Vivo | 2021 | 6.7 | 86% | +19 | 66 |
| 76 | The Six Triple Eight | 2024 | 6.7 | 56% | -11 | 51 |
| 77 | AKA | 2023 | 6.6 | 100% | +34 | none |
| 78 | Trigger Warning | 2024 | 4.6 | 21% | -25 | 36 |
| 79 | The Old Guard 2 | 2025 | 5.1 | 27% | -24 | 44 |
| 80 | The Harder They Fall | 2021 | 6.6 | 88% | +22 | 68 |
| 81 | Despicable Me 3 | 2017 | 6.3 | 58% | -5 | 49 |
| 82 | The Woman in Cabin 10 | 2025 | 5.8 | 28% | -30 | 41 |
| 83 | The Thursday Murder Club | 2025 | 6.5 | 77% | +12 | 60 |
| 84 | Slumberland | 2022 | 6.7 | 42% | -25 | 40 |
| 85 | The Guilty | 2021 | 6.3 | 73% | +10 | 63 |
| 86 | Mother of the Bride | 2024 | 4.9 | 13% | -36 | 39 |
| 87 | The Out-Laws | 2023 | 5.4 | 19% | -35 | 36 |
| 88 | Black Crab | 2022 | 5.7 | 53% | -4 | 54 |
| 89 | We Have a Ghost | 2023 | 6.1 | 44% | -17 | 53 |
| 90 | The Secret Life of Pets 2 | 2019 | 6.4 | 60% | -4 | 55 |
| 91 | Minions | 2015 | 6.4 | 55% | -9 | 56 |
| 92 | Brick | 2025 | 5.5 | 44% | -11 | 53 |
| 93 | Ad Vitam | 2025 | 5.9 | 38% | -21 | 40 |
| 94 | Uglies | 2024 | 4.7 | 15% | -32 | 34 |
| 95 | The Pale Blue Eye | 2023 | 6.6 | 62% | -4 | 56 |
| 96 | Sonic the Hedgehog | 2020 | 6.5 | 64% | -1 | 47 |
| 97 | Family Switch | 2023 | 5.7 | 47% | -10 | none |
| 98 | Nonnas | 2025 | 6.8 | 82% | +14 | 56 |
| 99 | That Christmas | 2024 | 6.8 | 67% | -1 | 60 |
| 100 | Lou | 2022 | 6.2 | 68% | +6 | 51 |
Gap in points: positive means Rotten Tomatoes is higher, negative means IMDb (times ten) is higher. Titles that are links have a full analysis; the others do not yet.
Where do critics and audiences split most?
Critics scored higher (27)
- AKA (2023) +34
- Troll (2022) +32
- Rebel Ridge (2024) +27
- The Tinder Swindler (2022) +26
- Enola Holmes 2 (2022) +25
- The Sea Beast (2022) +24
- Carry-On (2024) +22
- The Harder They Fall (2021) +22
Audiences scored higher (45)
- The Electric State (2025) -45
- Me Time (2022) -44
- Atlas (2024) -40
- 72 Hours (2026) -37
- Mother of the Bride (2024) -36
- Purple Hearts (2022) -35
- The Out-Laws (2023) -35
- Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire (2023) -34
Both scored high (3)
- Despicable Me 2 (2013) +2
- Sing 2 (2021) -1
- Sing (2016) 0
Both scored low (2)
- A Family Affair (2024) -4
- Black Crab (2022) -4
Roughly agree, mid-range (23)
- Leave the World Behind (2023) +9
- Falling for Christmas (2022) +9
- Minions (2015) -9
- Havoc (2025) +8
- Apex (2026) +7
- The Great Flood (2025) +6
- The Good Nurse (2022) +6
- Lou (2022) +6
How do the scores split by genre?
| Primary genre | Films | Median gap | Widest gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Action | 43 | -4 | The Electric State (2025) -45 |
| Comedy | 19 | -16 | Me Time (2022) -44 |
| Animation | 16 | -1 | The Sea Beast (2022) +24 |
| Drama | 11 | -11 | Purple Hearts (2022) -35 |
| Other | 11 | -2 | The Unforgivable (2021) -32 |
Genres with fewer than 5 films are grouped as Other. A film counts under its first-listed genre.
How do the scores split by release period?
| Release period | Films | Median gap |
|---|---|---|
| Before 2010 | 1 | +10 |
| 2010 to 2019 | 7 | -4 |
| 2020 to 2022 | 35 | -1 |
| 2023 to 2024 | 33 | -11 |
| 2025 to 2026 | 24 | -2 |
Which popular films are not scored?
These titles ranked above the cut-off in Netflix's data but were skipped, and no score is estimated for them.
- No Rotten Tomatoes score in OMDb: Don't Look Up, Exterritorial, Nowhere, Through My Window, Thrash, Dhurandhar.
- No matching film found in OMDb: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Extraction 2, Dr. Seuss' The Grinch, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery.
- Runtime did not match Netflix data: The Whisper Man, Office Romance, People We Meet on Vacation.
How are these articles made?
- Numbers come from data, not from the text. Every score, vote count and rank in an article is filled in from the data file, so the writing cannot contradict the tables.
- AI-assisted, fact-checked. The articles are drafted with AI assistance. Each one is then fact-checked against the data and the cited sources, and any claim that cannot be supported is cut before it is published.
- Scores can be wrong. OMDb relays IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes values, and they can lag or err. For the widest gaps and for films with few votes, the Rotten Tomatoes page is checked by hand. If it differs by 10 points or more, or the check cannot be completed, the article is not published.
- Only facts we can source. Articles describe what the scores suggest. They do not make claims about availability, and they do not quote critics or reviews.
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