58 Best Netflix Movies by Tomatometer

Netflix released one of its first feature films in November 2014. Virunga, an Oscar-nominated documentary about conservation efforts around the last of the mountain gorillas in Virunga National Park in eastern Congo, did the festival circuit and was picked up in an exclusive deal by the streaming service, which even then was home to critically lauded original series like House of Cards and Orange Is the New Black. The film got a limited theatrical release for awards consideration and was made available to subscribers simultaneously.

This impressive early release could have also been seen as a shot across the bow for the modern movie industry. Netflix was just getting started.

We’ve gathered some of the best Netflix original movies, as well as exclusives, in this list of the top films released by Netflix ranked by Tomatometer, including Okja, Mudbound, Gerald’s Game, Beasts of No Nation, Cargo, and more!

To be included in our list of the best of Netflix movies, titles must be Fresh (60% or higher), and films must have over 20 Tomatometer-eligible reviews — one reason you won’t find Virunga, for example, with a 100% rating on 15 reviews, below (for now). Netflix films that opened in fewer than 100 theatrical screens were included. Ties were decided by the number of reviews on each title, and then alphabetically where the number of reviews were the same.

Just added (8/24): To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Sunday’s Illness, The Bleeding Edge, and (finally) Virunga

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