6 Netflix Movies With the Highest Rotten Tomatoes Scores, Ranked

Image via Netflix Published Nov 14, 2026, 11:39 PM EST Writing from the Chicagoland area in Illinois, Robert is an avid movie watcher and will take just about any excuse to find time to go to his local movie theaters. Robert graduated from Bradley University with degrees in Journalism and Game Design with a minor in Film Studies. Robert tries his best to keep up with all the latest movie releases, from those released in theaters to those released on streaming. While he doesn't always keep up with the latest TV shows, he makes it a goal to watch nearly every major new release possible. He has been honing his craft and following any and all movie news all his life, leading up to now, where he has a vast knowledge of film and film history. He also logs every movie that he watches on his Letterboxd page, and has hosted a weekly online movie night with his closest friends for over 6 years. Sign in to your Collider account In the modern age of filmmaking, it's impossible to deny the influence and overwhelming popularity that streaming services have held as one of the main ways that many modern audiences experience film, whether it be an array of classics from the past or some of the hottest new releases. However, it comes down to the original content that a streaming service offers in terms of distinguishing itself from the competition, with no other streaming service coming close to the impact and outright memorability of Netflix's offerings. In terms of original films especially, Netflix is leaps and bounds ahead of its competition, largely thanks to how wide of a net that the studio casts in terms of financing and distributing just about every type of film imaginable. When at their best, Netflix original films can be some of the most acclaimed films of their respective years and must-watch phenomena that continue to be appreciated years after their release. While there are many different methods to discern the best and most celebrated films Netflix has released, the Rotten Tomatoes score paints a picture of widespread appeal and praise for these films. 6 'To All the Boys I've Loved Before' (2018) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 96% Image via Netflix The romantic comedy genre largely saw a downswing during the early 2010s, simply not being able to compete with the likes of massive romance blockbusters while the truly passionate and artistic rom-coms of the era aimed for a more niche, indie audience. However, Netflix has largely become one of the most pervasive forces for the return to prominence of rom-coms, especially teenage rom-coms, with the driving force for this return to form being To All the Boys I've Loved Before. It may seem silly that this seemingly simple teenage rom-com has such a massive Rotten Tomatoes score, but it speaks volumes not only to how effectively the film plays into classic rom-com archetypes, but also just how starved many critics and audiences of the late 2010s were for a classic rom-com experience. The film soars due to an abundance of charm, largely thanks to the dynamic and chemistry between leads Lana Condor and Noah Centineo, as well as a quaint setup that helps with the inherent memorability of the film. 5 'Roma' (2018) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 96% Image via Netflix The latest cinematic masterpiece from legendary director Alfonso Cuarón, Roma is a strikingly beautiful portrait of emotional hardships that plays with the audience's heartstrings with tactful precision. This Spanish-language film was the definitive must-watch indie film of 2018 and has stood as one of the premier examples of how Netflix is capable of releasing striking and beautiful works of cinematic art. It became the first Netflix original film to be nominated for Best Picture, as well as arguably being the closest that the platform has been to actually winning the legendary award. It simply goes without saying that Cuarón's masterpiece of black-and-white filmmaking was a massive hit with critics and audiences alike, with Roma being a once-in-a-generation work of art that spoke to the potential of the cinema in the streaming era. It's far from the only critically acclaimed film that Netflix has put out, but the massive amounts of prestige and passion surrounding the film showed they are more than just a streaming platform — rather, they are a genuine competitor and provider of artistic cinematic brilliance. COLLIDERInteractive Ballot sealed Movies/Academy Awards/Best Picture Collider · Best Picture Which Oscar Best PictureIs Your Perfect Movie? Five winners · ten questions · one envelope Five Oscar Best Picture winners. Five completely different visions of what cinema can be and what it can do to you. One of them is the film made for the way your mind works, and ten questions will work out which. The nominees 2020Parasite 2023Everything Everywhere All at Once 2024Oppenheimer 2015Birdman 2008No Country for Old Men Open the envelope Question 01 of 10TONE 01 What kind of film experience are you really after? The best movies do not just entertain. They leave something behind. ASomething that pulls the rug out, that makes me think I am watching one kind of film and then reveals I am watching another entirely. BSomething overwhelming: funny, sad, absurd and genuinely moving, all at once. CSomething grand and weighty, a film that makes me feel the full scale of what I am watching. DSomething formally daring, a film that pushes what cinema can even do. ESomething lean and relentless, pure tension with no wasted frame. ← Back Keys 1 to 5 or A to E · Enter to advance Next Question 02 of 10THEME 02 Which idea grabs you most in a film? Great films are driven by a central obsession. What is yours? AClass, inequality, and what people are willing to do when desperation meets opportunity. BIdentity, family, and the chaos of holding your life together while everything falls apart. CGenius, moral responsibility, and the catastrophic weight of a decision you can never take back. DEgo, legacy, and the terror of becoming irrelevant while you are still alive to watch it happen. EEvil, chance, and whether moral order exists at all or we just tell ourselves it does. ← Back Keys 1 to 5 or A to E · Enter to advance Next Question 03 of 10STRUCTURE 03 How do you like your story told? Form is content. The way a story is shaped changes what it means. AGenre-twisting. I want it to start in one lane and migrate into something completely different. BMaximalist and genre-blending: comedy, action, drama and sci-fi in one ride. CEpic and non-linear, cutting between timelines to build a mosaic of cause and consequence. DA single unbroken flow. I want to feel like I am living it in real time with no cuts to safety. ESpare and precise, every scene doing exactly what it needs to do and nothing more. ← Back Keys 1 to 5 or A to E · Enter to advance Next Question 04 of 10VILLAIN 04 What makes a truly great antagonist? The opposition defines the protagonist. What kind of opposition fascinates you? AA system: invisible, structural, and almost impossible to fight because it has no single face. BThe self, and the ways we sabotage, abandon and fail the people we love most. CHistory, and the unstoppable momentum of events no single person can stop or redirect. DThe industry, the machinery of culture that chews up talent and spits out irrelevance. EPure, implacable evil, a force so certain of itself it becomes almost philosophical. ← Back Keys 1 to 5 or A to E · Enter to advance Next Question 05 of 10ENDING 05 What do you want from a film's ending? The final note is the one that lingers. What do you want it to sound like? AShock and inevitability, a conclusion that recontextualizes everything before it. BEarned emotion. I want to cry, laugh and feel hopeful, even if the world is a mess. CDevastation and grandeur, an ending that leaves me sitting in silence for a few minutes. DAmbiguity, something open enough that I am still turning it over days later. EBleakness, an honest refusal to pretend the world is tidier than it is. ← Back Keys 1 to 5 or A to E · Enter to advance Next Question 06 of 10WORLD 06 Which setting pulls you in most? Where a film takes place shapes everything: mood, stakes, what is even possible. AA gleaming modern city with a hidden underside, beauty masking rot and wealth masking desperation. BA collapsing suburban life that opens onto something infinite, the multiverse inside one ordinary person. CThe corridors of power and science at a world-historical turning point, where decisions echo for decades. DThe grimy, alive chaos of New York and Hollywood, fame as both destination and trap. EVast, indifferent landscape, desert and highway where violence arrives without warning or reason. ← Back Keys 1 to 5 or A to E · Enter to advance Next Question 07 of 10CRAFT 07 What cinematic craft impresses you most? Every great film has a signature, the element that makes it unmistakable. AProduction design and mise-en-scène, every frame composed to carry meaning beneath the surface. BEditing and tonal control, the ability to move between registers without losing the audience. CScore and sound design, music that becomes inseparable from the dread and awe of what you see. DCinematography as performance, the camera not recording events but taking part in them. ESilence and restraint, what is left unsaid doing more work than any dialogue could. ← Back Keys 1 to 5 or A to E · Enter to advance Next Question 08 of 10PROTAGONIST 08 What kind of main character do you root for? The protagonist is the lens. Who you follow says something about you. ASomeone smart and resourceful who makes increasingly dangerous decisions under pressure. BSomeone overwhelmed and ordinary who turns out to be capable of something extraordinary. CA brilliant, tortured figure whose gifts and flaws cannot be separated from each other. DA self-destructive artist whose ego is both their superpower and their undoing. EA quiet, principled person trying to make sense of a world that has stopped making sense. ← Back Keys 1 to 5 or A to E · Enter to advance Next Question 09 of 10PACE 09 How do you feel about a film that takes its time? Pace is a choice. Some films sprint. Others let tension accumulate slowly, deliberately. AI love a slow build when the payoff is going to be seismic. Patience for a devastating reveal. BGive me relentless momentum. I want to feel breathless and emotionally spent by the end. CEpic runtime does not scare me. If the material demands three hours, give me three hours. DI want it propulsive even when nothing is technically happening, restless energy throughout. EDeliberate and unhurried. I want dread to accumulate in the spaces between the action. ← Back Keys 1 to 5 or A to E · Enter to advance Next Question 10 of 10AFTERMATH 10 What do you want to feel walking out of the cinema? The best films leave a mark. What kind of mark do you want? AUnsettled, like I have just seen something I cannot fully explain and cannot stop thinking about. BMoved and energized, like the film reminded me what matters and gave me something to hold onto. CHumbled, like I have been in the presence of something important and overwhelming. DExhilarated, like I have just watched cinema do something it has never quite done before. EHaunted, like a cold, quiet dread that stays with me for days. ← Back Keys 1 to 5 or A to E · Enter to advance Reveal my film The envelope, pleaseAnd the Oscar goes to ★ Best Picture, 2020 Parasite Bong Joon-ho, 2019 A film that hides its true intentions until the moment it is ready to reveal them. You are drawn to films that operate on several levels at once, that begin in one genre and quietly, brilliantly migrate into another. Bong Joon-ho's Parasite is a film about class, desire and the architecture of inequality that manages to be darkly funny, deeply suspenseful and genuinely shocking across a single extraordinary running time. Your instinct is for cinema that rewards close attention and punishes assumptions, right up to its devastating final image. From the Collider file The first film not in the English language to win Best Picture, in the Academy's 92-year history to that point. It took four Oscars in one night: Picture, Director, Original Screenplay and International Feature. It won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2019 by a unanimous jury vote, the first Korean film to do so. The Park family's modernist house was not a location. It was built from scratch on an outdoor lot. Reads between the lines Loves a reveal Attention to detail ★ Best Picture, 2023 Everything Everywhere All at Once Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, 2022 A film that refuses to choose between being entertaining and being meaningful. You want it all, and this one gives you all of it. The Daniels' Everything Everywhere All at Once is among the most maximalist films ever made: action comedy, multiverse science fiction, family drama, existential crisis, and an emotional core that sneaks up on you in the middle of the chaos. You respond to ambition. Being overwhelmed is the design, not the side effect, because the feeling of being crushed by infinite possibility is exactly what the film is about. From the Collider file Seven Oscars, including three acting wins for Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis. Michelle Yeoh became the first Asian woman to win Best Actress. The visual effects were handled by a team of fewer than ten people, most of them self-taught. Ke Huy Quan had all but left acting for two decades before this role brought him back. Wants everything Big swings Soft center ★ Best Picture, 2024 Oppenheimer Christopher Nolan, 2023 A film about the gap between what we can do and what we should do. You are drawn to cinema on a grand scale, films that treat history not as a backdrop but as a force, then place their characters inside that force and watch what happens. Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer sits inside one of the most consequential moments in human history and refuses to look away from it. You want your films to feel important without being self-important, earning their ambition through craft and the gravity of the subject. This one is enormous, complicated, and offers no easy comfort. From the Collider file Seven Oscars, including Nolan's first wins for directing and for Best Picture. Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr. both took their first Academy Awards for it. Kodak engineered a black-and-white 65mm stock that did not previously exist so Nolan could shoot those sequences on IMAX. A three-hour, R-rated drama about theoretical physics that passed 950 million dollars worldwide. Thinks in decades Scale and weight No easy comfort ★ Best Picture, 2015 Birdman Alejandro G. Iñárritu, 2014 A film doing something that probably should not be possible. You are drawn to films that foreground their own construction, where the how of the filmmaking becomes part of the what it is about. Alejandro G. Iñárritu's Birdman, stitched to appear as one continuous take, is cinema examining itself through the cracked mirror of a fading actor's ego. You respond to formal daring. Michael Keaton's performance and Emmanuel Lubezki's restless camera make something unlike anything else: a film about creativity, relevance, self-destruction and never quite knowing whether your work means anything at all. From the Collider file Four Oscars, among them Best Picture and Best Director for Iñárritu. Emmanuel Lubezki's win here was the middle of three consecutive cinematography Oscars, after Gravity and before The Revenant. Antonio Sánchez's improvised drum score was ruled ineligible for the score category, which caused a minor uproar. The long-take illusion was built from a handful of extended shots joined by hidden cuts. Formally daring Camera as character Ego and art ★ Best Picture, 2008 No Country for Old Men Joel and Ethan Coen, 2007 A film that treats dread as a form of meaning. You are drawn to cinema that trusts silence, refuses to explain itself, and lets unease do the talking. The Coen Brothers' No Country for Old Men is about the arrival of a new kind of evil: implacable, arbitrary, and indifferent to the moral frameworks we use to make sense of things. It is one of the most tightly controlled films ever made, and that control is the source of the terror. You want your films to haunt you rather than comfort you, and you have no interest in a resolution that would be a lie. From the Collider file Four Oscars: Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, and Supporting Actor for Javier Bardem. Adapted from Cormac McCarthy's 2005 novel, with much of his dialogue carried over intact. Carter Burwell's score runs about sixteen minutes and is nearly inaudible by design. Roger Deakins was nominated twice that year, for this and The Assassination of Jesse James, and won for neither. Trusts silence Dread over answers No tidy endings Ballot tally · your top three 1 2 3 ↻ Retake the quiz Copied to your clipboard Ballot counted byCOLLIDERCollider.com · The Awards Desk 4 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' (2020) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 97% Image via Netflix All of the pieces were there for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom to be a massive critical success, becoming a massively beloved love letter to 1920s blues music that defined the 2020 awards season but was sadly forgotten due to being snubbed for Best Picture. While its passionate musical story and how it balances the drama surrounding Blues culture in the '20s is great enough, the real selling point and impact of the film comes from its legendary central performances. Chadwick Boseman, in his final film role, absolutely steals the show in what is largely considered the best performance of his career, while Viola Davis matches this energy and further elevates the dramatic weight of the film. Between these outstanding performances and the overall lack of competition in prestigious films in the midst of the pandemic, it isn't exactly surprising that critics of the era flocked to the film and were quick to sing its many praises. 3 'The Perfect Neighbor' (2025) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 98% Image via Netflix While Netflix has acted as a dominating force that has revitalized and completely transformed many different genres during its tenure, crime documentaries are arguably one of the genres most overwhelmingly changed by Netflix's influence. The platform is constantly releasing high-profile documentaries that bolster its reputation as a source for hard-hitting cinematic journalism, although even with many great docs released, they don't hold a candle to the brilliance and power of Sundance darling The Perfect Neighbor. This emotional and painful story of real-life violence and murder in a small Florida community makes massive statements by largely showing how it transpired without much change. It tells its story entirely through bodycam footage, painting a picture both through what is directly seen by law enforcement and the implications and pain implied through what is seen. The film saw overwhelming acclaim after it premiered at Sundance, leading Netflix to acquire the film and add it to its repertoire of massively acclaimed documentaries. 2 'Under the Shadow' (2016) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 99% Image via Wagwam Films Compared to the films that have received multitudes of awards or overwhelming popularity on the platform, Under the Shadow overwhelmingly sticks out among the critical darlings that Netflix has released over the years. However, this emotional wartime supernatural horror film is absolutely deserving of its 99% Tomatometer score, bringing to life an incredibly abstract and intricate concept and utilizing it perfectly for its haunting themes of social terror and systemic misogyny. It's an outright perfect horror movie that most people simply haven't heard of, but its critical reception paints the entire picture of just how much of a hidden gem Under the Shadow is. The film follows a mother and daughter who begin being haunted by a mysterious apparition that they believe may have entered their home after their building was struck by a missile during the Iran-Iraq War. Convinced of the danger of these supernatural forces, this mother will have to face them head-on in order to protect her daughter. 1 'Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl' (2024) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 100% Image via Netflix In terms of icon status mixed with an overwhelming abundance of charm and whimsy, it's hard to beat the consistency of Aardman's Wallace & Gromit. This placed all sorts of expectations on their glorious return to feature-length filmmaking after 19 years of absence, with Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl fully living up to the reputation of the franchise in the eyes of critics. In the process, it ended up being Netflix's only film to have achieved an unbreakable 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes. It is certainly a bit silly that this illustrious achievement is held by a children's animated film, but it's impossible to conceive of even a single person who wouldn't crack a smile at the stop-motion charm of one of animation's greatest duos. Vengeance Most Fowl acts as a glorious continuation of everything that made this duo so iconic in the first place, amplifying their charms and sticking with what makes them great while also tapping into concerns of the modern age with a satirical anti-AI message. There's certainly the possibility for Netflix to release another film that achieves a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes in the future, but for the time being, the mantle will have to be maintained by the UK's favorite man-and-dog duo.