The Best Movies on Netflix Right Now (November 2026)

Last updated: November 1, 2026

Want something scarier? The best horror movies on Netflix right now →

Too much to scroll through and not enough time to watch it all. These are the best movies streaming on Netflix right now, pulled straight from my reviews and updated every month as titles come and go. Every pick is something I’ve seen and stand behind, with a link to the full review if you want the long version.

FRANCES HA (2013)

🍅92%Critics🍿78%Audience⭐7.4IMDb

The comedy is easy and the drama meaningful in Baumbach and Gerwig’s Frances Ha, making it a perfect storm of societal commentary that doesn’t wield its satire like a knife’s edge but rather picks and jabs in a playful manner.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

ZOLA (2021)

🍅88%Critics🍿68%Audience⭐6.4IMDb

Janicza Bravo’s snappy and stylized Zola is a bottle-rocket of artistic energy boasting four of the most-notable performances of 2021 from Taylour Paige, Riley Keough, Colman Domingo, and Nicholas Braun. An all-around electrifying watch despite a weak ending.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

PHANTOM THREAD (2017)

🍅91%Critics🍿71%Audience⭐7.4IMDb

A beautiful and thought-provoking slice of cinematic perfection, Phantom Thread is just aces across the board. Smart, rebellious, sneakily funny, and strangely romantic, performed with the measured gusto of those working at the tippy top of their game, and characterized by sterling technical precision, Phantom Thread is a perfect representation of cinema at its most fine-tuned and narratively daring.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

22 JUMP STREET (2014)

🍅84%Critics🍿77%Audience⭐7.0IMDb

Schmidt and Jenko go undercover at college, and the movie spends its entire runtime gleefully mocking the very idea of a sequel. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s meta comedy is even funnier than the first, and Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum’s chemistry is the whole engine.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

TOP GUN: MAVERICK (2022)

🍅96%Critics🍿99%Audience⭐8.2IMDb

Top Gun: Maverick is precisely the type of old-school action blockbuster that Hollywood no longer makes, feel-good and utterly thrilling, with edge-of-your-seat stunt work and mesmerizing star power in the form of Tom Cruise. The legacy sequel doesn’t lean too much on nostalgia for its own sake, packing plenty of emotional heft and boasting pitch-perfect pacing that keeps audiences pumping their fists and celebrating as if they too were flying high in the skies with the Top Gun grads.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

IT’S WHAT’S INSIDE (2024)

🍅80%Critics⭐6.6IMDb

Greg Jardin’s ‘It’s What’s Inside’ is a hilarious, mind-bending puzzle box comedy-thriller. Crafted with incredible precision and featuring an electrifying ensemble cast, this eruptive debut is destined to be one of the buzziest movies of 2024.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

WIND RIVER (2017)

🍅87%Critics🍿90%Audience⭐7.7IMDb

A wildlife tracker (Jeremy Renner) and a rookie FBI agent (Elizabeth Olsen) investigate a murder on a Wyoming reservation. Taylor Sheridan’s frozen, furious thriller is gripping and devastating, with a final act that hits like a gunshot.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

WHIPLASH (2014)

🍅94%Critics🍿94%Audience⭐8.5IMDb

Unconventional and bold, Whiplash pits Miles Teller’s ambitious young drummer against J.K. Simmons’ megalomaniacal jazz band director, a knockout performance from an actor long overdue for a role of this magnitude. Between the outstanding performances, a winning script, and an inbred set of emotional stakes, it drums up a jaw-dropping finale that’ll have the musically indifferent just as cheerfully mystified as lifelong aficionados. Forget jazz, this is a rock concert.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

NR. 24 (2024)

🍅100%Critics⭐7.5IMDb

Manning-Walker’s shattering film debut explores the self-inflicted violence of youth, famously opined to be wasted on the young, with great care before shifting to a heartbreaking meditation on sexual consent, steadied by a ravishingly raw central turn from newcomer Mia McKenna-Bruce. Even for a debut film, How to Have Sex feels explosive and must-see.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

ZERO DARK THIRTY (2012)

🍅91%Critics🍿80%Audience⭐7.4IMDb

Jessica Chastain plays a CIA analyst whose decade-long obsession leads to the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Kathryn Bigelow’s procedural is relentless and morally thorny, and the final raid is a stunning piece of filmmaking.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

I SWEAR (2025)

🍅96%Critics🍿98%Audience⭐8.3IMDb

I Swear, Kirk Jones’ biographical account of Tourette’s advocate John Davidson, is a moving and often very funny drama that finds compassion in contradiction, anchored by a breakout performance from Robert Aramayo. Robert Aramayo is outstanding as John Davidson, the Tourette’s campaigner whose life Kirk Jones tells with humor and real compassion.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

IN THE EARTH (2021)

🍅79%Critics🍿24%Audience⭐5.1IMDb

Ben Wheatley’s return to horror uses the backdrop of a global pandemic to spin a folksy yarn about woodland killers and pagan worship that employs militant audio-visual hallucinogenic effects to entertain and disorient. A real return to form for Wheatley and the first movie to effectively tackle the virus and its effect on our collective sanity.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

THE IMPOSSIBLE (2012)

🍅81%Critics🍿84%Audience⭐7.5IMDb

A family on holiday in Thailand is torn apart by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and fights to find each other. J.A. Bayona’s survival drama is harrowing, and Naomi Watts and a young Tom Holland are both extraordinary. The tsunami sequence itself is one of the most harrowing disaster scenes ever filmed.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

MASS (2021)

🍅95%Critics🍿90%Audience⭐7.5IMDb

A painstakingly intimate, conversation-driven drama with phenomenal performances all around (Jacob Isaacs and Ann Dowd are especially extraordinary), Mass is a terrific and terrifically depressing debut from Fran Kranz that will be sure to move audiences to tears.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

I CARE A LOT (2021)

🍅79%Critics🍿35%Audience⭐6.4IMDb

Rosamund Pike leads a deliciously contemptible cast of characters in J Blakeson’s dark-satire-cum-crime-thriller I Care a Lot. Though the film suffers the sin of having its cake and eating it too (and doesn’t always succeed wrestling together conflicting tones), the biting script and devilish performances bury that shortcoming many times over.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

HOW TO HAVE SEX (2023)

🍅97%Critics🍿63%Audience⭐6.4IMDb

Manning-Walker’s shattering film debut explores the self-inflicted violence of youth, famously opined to be wasted on the young, with great care before shifting to a heartbreaking meditation on sexual consent, steadied by a ravishingly raw central turn from newcomer Mia McKenna-Bruce. Even for a debut film, How to Have Sex feels explosive and must-see.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

FURY (2014)

🍅75%Critics🍿84%Audience⭐7.6IMDb

David Ayer’s brutal WWII tank drama follows Brad Pitt’s battle-hardened sergeant and his ragged band of brothers through the final, bloody push into Germany. Just as they refuse to quit on “the best job they ever had,” Ayer refuses to speak with a whimper. It boasts one of the best ensemble casts of 2014, and from LaBeouf to Bernthal, every one of them is simply stunning.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

THE IRISHMAN (2019)

🍅95%Critics🍿86%Audience⭐7.8IMDb

Martin Scorsese’s passion project finally comes to life (through the magic of distracting de-aging technology) telling a long-winded but mostly gripping story of the intersection of crime, politics, and morality in the mob-controlled Chicago union scene. A freshly un-retired Joe Pesci swoops in to steal the show.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

GREEN ROOM (2016)

🍅90%Critics🍿75%Audience⭐6.9IMDb

Jeremy Saulnier’s grotesquely violent Green Room pits a hapless punk band against a group of militant Neo Nazis in almost pornographically gruesome fashion. A relentlessly fierce examination of violence meets punk, this well-acted violent venture is a must for those compelled to see such material.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

SWISS ARMY MAN (2016)

🍅73%Critics🍿72%Audience⭐6.9IMDb

One of the most bizarre and bizarrely beautiful films to grace the Sundance Dramatic Competition, Swiss Army Man is not a film to be puzzled out in one go but that’s ok. It’s mightily entertaining, features two standout performances and has enough raw originality coursing through its veins to make it truly stand in a league of its own.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

INGRID GOES WEST (2017)

🍅84%Critics🍿71%Audience⭐6.6IMDb

Dark, awkward comedy Ingrid Goes West has plenty of uncomfortable laughs and wince-worthy situations but poses potent, pressing commentary about the dark consequences of social media oversharing. Star Aubrey Plaza is heartbreaking and strange as hell as a twisted stalker desperate for friends and attention and any fan of hers ought to seek out this sleeper hit immediately.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

ROMA (2018)

🍅96%Critics🍿72%Audience⭐7.6IMDb

Alfonso Cuarón’s return behind the camera marks his most personal chapter yet in this subtle masterclass of filmmaking. Roma is a textured, richly-detailed dream; a sympathetic memory of maternal grace that’s anything but the placid surface it presents.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE (2024)

🍅86%Critics🍿72%Audience⭐6.2IMDb

Essentially an art film about a dying woman’s quest for a final slice of NYC pizza, trojan-horsed into a genre flick, A Quiet Place: Day One boasts an excellent performance by Lupita Nyong’o (Joseph Quinn is also outstanding), helping keep this franchise fresh, relevant, and true to form.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

ALPHA (2026)

🤢26%Critics🍿46%Audience⭐3.7IMDb

Julia Ducournau’s third French body horror Alpha is a concussive portrait of a family strained by the specter of a deadly virus, equal parts formally ambitious and puzzle-box cerebral mania. It’s not her strongest film, but it continues her tradition of bold, esoteric art.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

HAMNET (2025)

🍅86%Critics🍿93%Audience⭐7.8IMDb

A profoundly moving portrait of family, tragedy, and how art binds us, Hamnet is a stunning return to form for director Chloé Zhao, boasting one of 2025’s best performances from Jessie Buckley and sure to leave you emotionally hammered.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

GREEN BOOK (2018)

🍅77%Critics🍿92%Audience⭐8.2IMDb

Green Book works pretty much however you break it down. Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali are divine as a traveling odd couple, Peter Farrelly’s directorial skills are in sharp focus, and the story is both good-natured and vital. It’s the kind of family-friendly message movie that comes too infrequently, made with all the right attention to detail.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

FRANKENSTEIN (2025)

🍅85%Critics🍿94%Audience⭐7.4IMDb

A gorgeous retelling of a classic tale about the monsters that dwell within us, Del Toro’s take on Frankenstein features a standout turn from Jacob Elordi but remains a middle of the pack effort from the beloved Gothic storyteller. Much like the creature in this story, desperately wanting to understand why it is here, the film lacks its own sense of purpose.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review · Guillermo del Toro Movies, Ranked

THE NORTHMAN (2022)

🍅90%Critics🍿64%Audience⭐7.0IMDb

A cinematic wonder of Viking violence and old-school melodramatic barbarity, The Northman is an unrelenting and gruesome historic epic that showcases an absolutely berserk performance from Alexander Skarsgård and all the visual style and fascinating dialogue you’d expect from auteur Robert Eggers.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review · Every Robert Eggers Movie, Ranked

ELYSIUM (2013)

🍅64%Critics🍿58%Audience⭐6.6IMDb

Overflowing with sly wit and stylish cinematography, Elysium is a meaningful addition to a genre that is as much about prognosticating events to come as it is about action. The production design, from the filthy sprawl of a ruined Los Angeles to the gleaming orbital paradise, is a knockout.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY (2025)

🍅92%Critics🍿93%Audience⭐7.3IMDb

The winning combo of Daniel Craig and Josh O’Connor threatens to send Wake Up Dead Man to the heavens, but the third Knives Out entry, though the most thematically ambitious of the bunch, is held back by some material flaws, chief among them an over-reliance on over-explanation.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

BUGONIA (2025)

🍅87%Critics🍿84%Audience⭐7.4IMDb

Amongst my favorite working directors, Yorgos Lanthimos has a way of poking at how we perceive reality that is unsettling, absurdist, and deeply satirical, and with Bugonia he applies an unsettling sci-fi edge to further knock us off-kilter. Emma Stone, shaved head and all, is great, but Jesse Plemons proves once again that he too is one of the greats.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

M3GAN (2022)

🍅93%Critics🍿78%Audience⭐6.3IMDb

M3gan sets the stage for a strong 2023 with a horror-comedy that actually brings the laughs. And plenty of them. Though its never very scary, this never-dull camp-fest serves up societal anxieties aplenty, leaning into its ridiculous premise to mock our reliance on technology in every aspect of our modern lives. The two leads are sturdy as can be. See it with a packed crowd.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

SMILE 2 (2024)

🍅86%Critics🍿81%Audience⭐6.7IMDb

Despite featuring some truly grade-A kills, solid jump scares, and an electrifying scream queen in Naomi Scott, Smile 2 can’t quite manage to land this possessed plane without cheating, leaving this viewer with a bit of a sour taste. Some major issues aside, though, this savage sequel possesses all the ingredients a great horror haunt should.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

DALLAS BUYERS CLUB (2013)

🍅92%Critics🍿91%Audience⭐7.9IMDb

As a piece of cultural import, Dallas Buyers Club works so well because it is just as poignant look at drug administration as corporate bully and the monumental failings of the U. Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto both won Oscars, and the film’s anger at a broken system still lands.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

THE MENU (2022)

🍅88%Critics🍿76%Audience⭐7.1IMDb

The Menu is a riotous dark satire that uses the upper-echelon of the food world to satirize class warfare. As if run through a Paco Jet, Ralph Fiennes delivers an icy tour-de-force as a mesmerizing, disturbed chef at the end of his rope. Full of twists and full-bellied laughs, consider The Menu a dish that should be consumed immediately.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

THE BOOGEYMAN (2023)

🍅60%Critics🍿65%Audience⭐5.9IMDb

One of the better (and more assertive) adaptations of Steven King, The Boogeyman is a well-directed, well-acted slice of classic ‘fear the dark’ horror. It’s scary, it’ll make you jump, and it’s somehow only rated PG-13.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

MARRIAGE STORY (2019)

🍅95%Critics🍿85%Audience⭐7.9IMDb

As real and unblinking a tale of American divorce as there has ever been, ’Marriage Story earns career best performances from Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson who brilliantly wield Noah Baumbach’s powerful script to punch-drunk results.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

THE NORTHMAN (2022)

🍅90%Critics🍿64%Audience⭐7.0IMDb

A cinematic wonder of Viking violence and old-school melodramatic barbarity, The Northman is an unrelenting and gruesome historic epic that showcases an absolutely berserk performance from Alexander Skarsgård and all the visual style and fascinating dialogue you’d expect from auteur Robert Eggers.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review · Every Robert Eggers Movie, Ranked

BEAST (2022)

🍅69%Critics🍿77%Audience⭐5.6IMDb

Man vs. Lion B-movie Beast doesn’t rewrite the creature feature playbook but nor does it need to. Strong pacing, gnarly animal action, and a worthy lead in Idris Elba make this a sinewy slasher worth a safari to the cinema.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE (2026)

🍅91%Critics🍿88%Audience⭐7.2IMDb

Nia DaCosta proves a steady hand in continuing the 28 Years Later story, this time framing it as an ideological battle between two opposing forces: Ralph Fiennes’ atheist humanist Dr. Kelso and Jack O’Connell’s sadistic satanist Jimmy. The result is weird, singular, and enthusiastically carries the story forward.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

1917 (2019)

🍅88%Critics🍿88%Audience⭐8.2IMDb

1917 takes an intimate humanist approach to war epics to often staggering results, the proven pairing of Sam Mendes and cinematography Roger Deakins impress top technicians working at the top of their craft to tell a ground-level story of the solitude of heroism.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

PIECES OF A WOMAN (2020)

🍅76%Critics🍿84%Audience⭐7.0IMDb

As emotionally devastating a film as you are likely to find in 2020, Pieces of a Woman starts with an emotional flash-bang that so burns viewers receptor sites for tragedy that it’s hard to feel much for the remainder of the film though a soaring pair of performances from Vanessa Kirby and Shia LaBeouf keep viewers glued to the woe.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

READY OR NOT (2019)

🍅89%Critics🍿78%Audience⭐6.9IMDb

Ready or Not may not gild the lily of horror comedy but it’s a wickedly fun little late summer distraction, sanguine-stained, tumultuous, and crackling with midnight-colored laughs.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

T2 TRAINSPOTTING (2017)

🍅81%Critics🍿78%Audience⭐7.1IMDb

Like a shot of cinema to the main vein, T2 Trainspotting is a lively and thoughtful companion piece to Boyle’s darkly comedic addiction saga. Choose strong performances, choose a rocking playlist, choose intoxicating visual flair. Even if T2 fails to completely justify its existence, it in no way feels like a betrayal to its predecessor or its characters and offers an oft inebriating glance at modernity.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

SHE SAID (2022)

🍅88%Critics🍿91%Audience⭐7.3IMDb

Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan join together to unspool the story behind the story of sexual predator and Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein’s downfall. She Said is a sobering investigative procedural that pits women’s truth against strongmen lies but begs the question: did anything ever change?▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

Critics and Audience scores from Rotten Tomatoes; ratings from IMDb. Scores as of November 2026.

Frequently asked questions

What are the best movies on Netflix right now?

This month’s top picks include Frances Ha, Zola, Phantom Thread, 22 Jump Street, and Top Gun: Maverick.

How often is this list updated?

Every month. Films that leave Netflix are removed, and newly added movies we’ve reviewed are added. Last updated November 1, 2026.

What are the best horror movies on Netflix?

See our separate guide to the best modern horror movies on Netflix: the best horror movies on Netflix

Some links on this page are affiliate links, so I may earn a small commission if you rent, buy, or sign up through them, at no extra cost to you. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.