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The 25 best movies on Netflix right now
What’s the best movie I can watch on Netflix? We’ve all asked ourselves this question, only to spend the next 15 minutes scrolling through the streaming service’s oddly specific genre menus and getting overwhelmed by the constantly shifting trend menus. Netflix’s huge catalog of movies continues to expand day by day, week by week, month by month. This makes keeping up to date with best the service has to offer — let alone finding something to watch after a long day — a task that feels herculean at best and impossible at worst for someone not plugged into its inscrutable rhythms.
We’re here to help. For those suffering from choice paralysis, we’ve narrowed down your options to not only our favorite current movies on the platform, but the best movies Netflix has to offer.
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The 25 best movies on Netflix right now
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The best comedy movies of 2024
This year was been full of comedy, and some of the best movies of 2024 have also been some of the funniest. And there’s a wide variety of subgenres to pick from: musical reboots, raunchy pregnancy movies, campy horror flicks, and even a DC parody.
So behold: the best comedy movies of 2024, sorted in reverse chronological order.
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The best horror movies of 2024, ranked by scariness
Dread is foundational to horror, so it’s no surprise that the genre’s slate of movies would be replete with the feeling. But in 2024, horror movies seemed particularly preoccupied with the concept. It’s not that the movies simply featured tense scenes that drew us in with the promise of a scare, or set up future terror with a brief glimpse of a monster. Instead, 2024 was full of movies that bided their time, building tension slowly through their run time only to reveal their truest aim in the closing minutes.
This, more than anything, is what defined the year in horror: the feeling that something inextricable and horrible was creeping ever closer no matter where you moved or how fast you ran. It came in the form of a smiling curse that spreads like a virus until it finds the biggest stage it can, or as the moon from a TV show that felt more real than life. It came in the form of a little girl on a late night show whose affliction seemed more performance than possession, as an echoing invasive sound that wouldn’t leave the brain and could only be soothed with violence, or as an older gentleman who sometimes talked like a Reddit thread from 2012. But in each and every one of these cases, and plenty more this year, it waited quietly until the end to show its hand.
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Best sci-fi movies of 2024
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The 25 best movies on Netflix right now
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The best comedy movies to watch on Netflix, Prime, Max, and more
Comedy can feel like an ignored genre in modern moviemaking.
Horror just had a fantastic 2023. Thrillers come out on a weekly basis. Even action movies have had some stellar recent releases. But Hollywood has been in a comedic rut in recent years, with fewer and fewer notable releases from big studios.
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10 great detective movies you can watch right now
The Batman has been in wide release for over a week now, and by any measurable standard it’s a massive success. One of the big selling points for writer-director Matt Reeves’ take on the long-running comic book film franchise is that in this iteration, the audience finally gets to see why one of Batman’s many monikers is “The World’s Greatest Detective,” as the eternally popular DC character’s nearly superhuman powers of investigation and deduction are given much more of a focus than in previous films.
So if The Batman left you with a hunger for even more stories about sleuths and solving crimes with something other than brute force, we have a list for you. Compiled here are 10 great detective movies that you can stream right now from the comfort of your home! This list contains films from multiple countries and includes everything from old school gumshoes in fedoras to morally ambiguous cops on the edge, military investigators, whiz kids, and more. Some of them even share a little DNA with the costumed crime-fighter that inspired this list!
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The best heist movies on Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max, and more
Who doesn’t love a good heist movie? Whether it’s a bank robbery, a jewelry heist, a long con, or some combination of the three, the heist thriller is a crowd pleaser for good reason.
The Polygon staff has pulled together some of our very favorite heist movies available to watch now on streaming platforms like Netflix and HBO Max. We’ve left out some of the more obvious examples (all the Ocean’s movies are on Netflix if you’re looking for that marathon), in favor of some of our other favorite entries across multiple decades and nations. So make a plan, grab your squad, and pull off a viewing night with one of these great heist movies:
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The best sci-fi movies you can watch at home
Science fiction, to echo Ursula K. Le Guin, is not predictive, but descriptive. While most science fiction films attempt (and fail) to extrapolate the ideas and concerns of their respective present to predict what the world may look like in the not-so-distant future, these extrapolations ultimately amount to stories that exist in conversation with the hopes and fears of the times in which they were conceived.
All of this is to say that science fiction (i.e., speculative fiction) is a genre of possibilities and introspection, one whose long legacy through the medium of cinema has produced countless iconic works whose thematic depth and aesthetic resonance have enlivened and inspired the imaginations of countless more generations. From Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris to Andrew Niccol’s Gattaca and more, the history and legacy of science fiction in film is one of futures past that have since gone on to shape and inform our view of the present, all while entertaining and edifying audiences new and old alike.
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The best sports movies to watch right now
Let’s face it: A lot of sports movies, especially the most famous ones, are pretty bad. Often corny, schlocky, and with only a mediocre understanding of the sports they depict at best, sports-loving movie audiences have long been disappointed by adaptations of the games they love on the big screen.
That’s why we’re here — to separate the wheat from the chaff and hone in on the sports movies that are actually good.
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The best thrillers to watch on Netflix, Hulu, Max, and more
If you’re enjoying a thriller, your body might know before your mind does. Thrillers can touch on many different subgenres, but they live and die on whether they make viewers feel suspense, anxiety, tension, and surprise. That’s the mark of a good thriller, and it’s what the movies on this list have in common.
From classic thrillers like John Cassavetes’ The Killing of a Chinese Bookie and Michael Mann’s Heat to underseen gems like Ryoo Seung-wan’s Escape from Mogadishu or the Antonio Banderas mall cop thriller Security, the genre boasts a rich and expansive selection made for every sort of audience you can think of.
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The video game movie and TV adaptations that actually work
There’s now a long and storied history of video game adaptations, from 1993’s Super Mario Bros. to, uh, 2023’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie. There’s also a litany of upcoming based-on-a-video-game movie projects, including planned adaptations of [deep breath] Gears of War, Ghost of Tsushima, Metal Gear Solid, Space Invaders, Death Stranding, and Just Dance.
But of the ones already out there and watchable at home, which are worth your time? Polygon is here to help.
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The 25 best movies on Netflix right now
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8 movies like Dead Space to watch as a break from vivisecting Necromorphs
Dead Space, the sci-fi horror video game franchise starring the ever-suffering engineer Isaac Clarke, has risen from the dead with a new remake of the 2008 original for modern consoles courtesy of Montreal-based developer EA Motive — and it’s really good! Whether this is your first time descending into the Necromorph-laden bowels of the USG Ishimura, an avid Dead Space fan eager to spot what Motive have changed in this new version, or you just want to know who the heck this dude in a sci-fi diving suit doing the shoot dance in Fortnite is, the 2023 remake of Dead Space is solid on nearly all fronts.
The success of this new Dead Space game got us thinking about horror maestro (and “Grandpa Horror”) John Carpenter’s long-held desire to produce a live-action adaptation of the series. Then we got to thinking where such a film would fit among the best videogame film adaptations created so far, and then that got us thinking about what are the best sci-fi horror movies to watch for fans of Dead Space both new and old — y’know, besides the obvious ones like Event Horizon and the Alien series, ‘cus you’ve likely already seen those!
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15 Elden Ring-like movies to watch while you wait for the Elden Ring movie
With the release of Elden Ring spinoff Nightreign imminent and the announcement of an official film adaptation from Alex Garland (Civil War) and A24, it’s time to return to the Lands Between. But if you’ve bashed your head against some of the new areas’ hardest bosses too many times to count and need a bit of a break, why not check out a movie with similar vibes to the game?
Here are 15 movies that capture the vibe of FromSoftware’s masterpiece, and can keep you in the Elden Ring spirit while you recharge for your next run at the game’s toughest challenges.
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20 cult horror movies like the Evil Dead you’ve probably never seen
Evil Dead Rise’s promise of demonic carnage in an apartment building and a very Deadite’d Alyssa Sutherland sent a jolt of recognition swept through a particular subset of horror fans. For five movies, one TV show, multiple video games and comics, and 42 years Sam Raimi’s iconic franchise has reigned as the king of cursed cabin bloodbaths. Yet more than the franchise’s multimedia reach, that legacy shines brighter via the series’ DNA coursing through the genre.
From a Brazilian tome of the dead, to Indonesian black-magic fiends, and myriad indie directors making their own over-the-top demonic sieges, Raimi’s flavor of gags and guts have been filtered through the prism of creatives across the decades and the globe, honoring The Evil Dead with their own loving (and often gore-gushing) twists, tweaks, nods, and homages to his classics.
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Movies and shows like The Last of Us to watch after you’re done with HBO’s show
The Last of Us, the post-apocalyptic HBO drama adapted from Naughty Dog’s 2013 game of the same name by Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin and series co-creator Neil Druckmann, concluded its first season earlier this month.
The series stars Pedro Pascal (The Mandalorian, Game of Thrones) as Joel, a middle-aged survivor of a deadly pandemic who is hired to shepherd Ellie (played by fellow Game of Thrones alum Bella Ramsey), a girl born with a mysterious immunity to the infection, across the country to a research outpost with the intent of finding a cure. Along the way, the pair are forced to contend with the myriad horrors of this strange new world — including zombie-like creatures, militant factions, and cannibalistic cult leaders — all while growing closer together. It may not be a story about love, but it certainly is one that resonated with audiences, with the first six episodes of the show averaging over 30 million viewers.
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The best movies like Zelda games to watch while playing Tears of the Kingdom
It’s finally here, Polygon readers: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, the long-awaited sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, is out and available to play.
We’ll be playing the game, writing guides, and generally having a blast in Hyrule. But what if you want the fun to extend beyond the game?
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