3 Best Movies to Watch on Netflix This Week (June 8-12)

Horror continued its dominance at the box office this past weekend, although it was a parody of the genre that took the domestic top spot. For the first time since 2013, Scary Movie returned to the box office and proved fairly popular, earning $55 million in domestic revenue and an additional $50 million from overseas markets. However, the viral phenomenon Obsession and A24’s Backrooms, led by Renate Reinsve and Chiwetel Ejiofor, took the headlines once again, as The Mandalorian and Grogu continued to plummet. With box office business taken care of, let’s look forward to a great week of streaming. To make sure you make the most of the next five days, here’s a list of three movies you should stream on Netflix.

For more recommendations, check out our list of the best shows and movies on Netflix.

Disclaimer: These titles are available on US Netflix.

1

‘Poor Things’ (2023)

Rotten Tomatoes: 92% | IMDb: 7.7/10

Netflix is known for its constant rotation of great modern and classic titles, with one of the best films of the decade arriving this past weekend. The film in question is 2023’s Poor Things, which saw director Yorgos Lanthimos team up once again with frequent collaborator Emma Stone, who won the Best Actress prize at the Academy Awards for this stunning, career-defining role.

Stone portrays Bella Baxter in the film, a young woman who was saved from certain death by having the brain of her unborn child transplanted into her body. As she grows under the watchful eye of unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe), Bella discovers the beauty and cruelty of the world around her in vivid detail. A film like no other, Poor Things is a must-watch this week.































































Collider Exclusive · Oscar Best Picture Quiz
Which Oscar Best Picture
Is Your Perfect Movie?

Parasite · Everything Everywhere · Oppenheimer · Birdman · No Country

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 that was made for the way your mind works. Ten questions will figure out which one.

🪜Parasite

🌀Everything Everywhere

☢️Oppenheimer

🐦Birdman

🪙No Country for Old Men

01

What kind of film experience do you actually want?
The best movies don’t just entertain — they leave something behind.





02

Which idea grabs you most in a film?
Great films are driven by a central obsession. What’s yours?





03

How do you like your story told?
Form is content. The way a story is shaped changes what it means.





04

What makes a truly great antagonist?
The opposition defines the protagonist. What kind of opposition fascinates you?





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?





06

Which setting pulls you in most?
Where a film takes place shapes everything — mood, stakes, what’s even possible.





07

What cinematic craft impresses you most?
Every great film has a signature — a technical or artistic element that makes it unmistakable.





08

What kind of main character do you root for?
The protagonist is the lens. Who you choose to follow says something about you.





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.





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?





The Academy Has Decided
Your Perfect Film Is…

Your answers have pointed to one Oscar Best Picture winner above all others. This is the film that was made for the way your mind works.

Parasite

You are drawn to films that operate on multiple levels simultaneously — 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 hides its true intentions until the moment it’s ready to reveal them. Parasite is exactly that — a film that rewards close attention and punishes assumptions, right up to its devastating final image.

Everything Everywhere All at Once

You want it all — and this film gives you all of it. The Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Once is one of the most maximalist films ever made: action comedy, multiverse sci-fi, family drama, existential crisis, and a genuinely earned emotional core that sneaks up on you amid the chaos. You are someone who responds to ambition, who doesn’t want cinema to choose between being entertaining and being meaningful. This film refuses that choice entirely. It is overwhelming by design, and its overwhelming nature is precisely the point — because the feeling of being crushed by infinite possibility is exactly what it’s about.

Oppenheimer

You are drawn to cinema on a grand scale — films that understand history not as a backdrop but as a force, and that place their characters inside that force and watch what happens. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a film about the terrifying gap between what we can do and what we should do, told with the full weight of one of the most consequential moments in human history behind it. You want your films to feel important without feeling self-important — to earn their ambition through sheer craft and the gravity of their subject. Oppenheimer does exactly that. It is enormous, complicated, and refuses easy comfort.

Birdman

You are drawn to films that foreground their own construction — that make the how of the filmmaking part of the what it’s about. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman, shot to appear as a single continuous take, is cinema examining itself through the cracked mirror of a fading actor’s ego. You respond to formal daring, to the feeling that a film is doing something that probably shouldn’t be possible. Michael Keaton’s performance and Emmanuel Lubezki’s restless camera create something genuinely unlike anything else — a film that is simultaneously about creativity, relevance, self-destruction, and the impossibility of ever truly knowing if your work means anything at all.

No Country for Old Men

You are drawn to cinema that trusts silence, that refuses to explain itself, and that treats dread as a form of meaning. The Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men is a film about the arrival of a new kind of evil — implacable, arbitrary, and utterly indifferent to the moral frameworks we use to make sense of the world. It is one of the most formally controlled films ever made, and its controlled restraint is what makes it so terrifying. You want your films to haunt you, not comfort you. You are not interested in resolution if resolution would be dishonest. No Country for Old Men is honest in a way that most cinema never dares to be.

2

‘Little Miss Sunshine’ (2006)

Rotten Tomatoes: 91% | IMDb: 7.8/10

From one of the best films of the 2020s to one of the best films of the 2000s. Jonathan Dayton and Valerie FarisLittle Miss Sunshine stars a breakout Abigail Breslin as Olive, a young girl who dreams of becoming a pageant queen. However, the odds are stacked against her, and her unconventional, dysfunctional family begins an unlikely road trip to make her dream come true.

Featuring some of the finest performances of the decade, from Breslin’s aforementioned breakout to Steve Carell‘s troubled Frank, Little Miss Sunshine was a huge hit upon arrival and even scored two Academy Awards, including a win for Alan Arkin‘s supporting performance. A beautiful, emotionally poignant blend of tragedy and comedy, prepare to smile through your tears at this modern classic this week.

3

‘Passengers’ (2016)

Rotten Tomatoes: 30% | IMDb: 7.0/10

With Chris Pratt‘s sci-fi sequel The Super Mario Galaxy Movie officially passing the billion-dollar mark at the box office this past weekend, it’s time to turn your attention to another Pratt sci-fi effort, one that also stars the ever-brilliant Jennifer Lawrence. The sci-fi romance drama Passengers, directed by Morten Tyldum, is set on a spaceship traveling to a colony planet, as a passenger in a sleeping pod is awoken 90 years too early.

Passengers might be far from flawless, but the sheer chemistry of Pratt and Lawrence alone will keep you hooked from start to finish. There are some questionable narrative choices, but impressive production design helps create a blockbuster sci-fi feel for a non-franchise film. For something a bit different this week, why not try Passengers?


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Release Date

December 21, 2016

Runtime

116 minutes


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