This Sci-Fi Movie on Netflix Is the Perfect ‘Andor’ Replacement

To the surprise of no one, another box office weekend has passed with Ryan Gosling on top. For the second week running, the epic sci-fi adventure Project Hail Mary, based on the bestselling book by Andy Weir, is the most-watched movie in the world, already hitting the $300 million mark despite only spending 10 days in theaters. The record-breaking film, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, is a hit with both audiences and critics, and is 2026’s biggest new release so far. With the box office covered by Grace and Rocky, what should you be watching from your own home? To help you decide, here’s a list of three movies you should stream this week 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

‘McQueen’ (2018)

Rotten Tomatoes: 99% | IMDb: 7.7/10

Fans of fashion and documentaries are covered this week, with Netflix boasting a near-perfect doc in its catalog. Exploring the life and career of fashion designer Lee Alexander McQueen, McQueen journeys through his early work as a tailor, into the rise through the fashion ranks, and finally to his untimely death, with McQueen sadly taking his own life at age 40 in 2010.

By using archival footage and interviews with friends and family, McQueen feels like an intimate and honest look into the troubled yet brilliant life of a fashion icon. Raw and emotional, the film balances both the joyous celebration of the British designer’s work, as well as an insight into the sad circumstances that surrounded his death. With a 99% score from critics on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, this isn’t to be missed.































































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

‘The Creator’ (2023)

Rotten Tomatoes: 67% | IMDb: 6.7/10

Following his work on Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and before the release of Jurassic World Rebirth, director Gareth Edwards delivered his most underappreciated movie yet with 2023’s The Creator. The film follows a future war between humans and Artificial Intelligence, as a former soldier discovers the secret weapon with the capacity to end the conflict: a child.

Dubbed “a truly remarkable piece of original science fiction storytelling” in Collider’s review of the movie, The Creator is a wildly underrated sci-fi effort that makes up for a lacking script with a clever concept and stunning visuals. A film that flopped at the box office, its recent renaissance on the streaming charts is the perfect reminder not to let The Creator pass you by.

3

‘You’ve Got Mail’ (1998)

Rotten Tomatoes: 69% | IMDb: 6.7/10

In these difficult times, all you might yearn for is to escape into a feel-good story bursting at the seams with nostalgia. If that’s what you desire, then You’ve Got Mail is the film for you. Inspired by the 1937 Hungarian play Parfumerie by Miklós László, Nora Ephron‘s rom-com tells the tale of a pair who fall in love over the internet, with both unaware that one is trying to put the other out of business.

Funny, charming, and full of character, You’ve Got Mail will have you grinning from ear to ear long after the credits roll. Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks prove once again to be a perfect pair, shining under the detailed directorial eye of Ephron. Comforting and effortlessly romantic, You’ve Got Mail is a tender tale that you simply can’t miss.


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Release Date

December 18, 1998

Runtime

119 minutes

Director

Nora Ephron


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