That’s impressive Netflix arrives in mid-January with a largely new lineup of films that have high Rotten Tomatoes scores.
Most new arrivals landed below the 90 percent markbut it’s such an eclectic group that moviegoers of all stripes should be happy.
Watch with us has narrowed down the selections to the five best Netflix movies of the moment, as ranked by Rotten Tomatoes.
Action and horror are both well-represented on this list, but there is a coming-of-age film that landed at #1.
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5. “Stone Cold Fox” (2025)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 60 percent
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina star Shipka is back on Netflix this month with a starring role in the action thriller stone cold fox. Shipka plays Fox, a runaway who gets mixed up with a drug dealer named Goldie (Krysten Ritter). Fox agrees with their arrangement until she realizes that her sister, Spooky (Bluesy Burke), apparently ran away from home in turn, only to be kidnapped in the street.
Fox will do anything to save her sister, even if it means stabbing Goldie in the back and running away alone. It’s a dangerous road she’s embarked on, and Fox may not be able to complete her mission.
stone cold fox is streaming on Netflix.
4. “Becky” (2020)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 72 percent
Actor Kevin James has a rare naughty turn Beckybut the film belongs to Lulu Wilsonwho plays the titular 13-year-old girl. Becky feels blindsided when her widowed father, Jeff (Joel McHale), announces that he is marrying his girlfriend, Kayla (Amanda Brugel), and bringing his son, Ty (Isaiah Rockcliffe), in the family as well.
After Becky runs away to digest the news, her family is taken hostage by Dominick (James) and his men. These people are willing to murder Becky’s family to get what they want, but they don’t know what they’ve unleashed. Becky has a killer instinct that no one expected, and she’s about to go. Die hard about the punks who threatened his family.
Becky is streaming on Netflix.
3. “The Lake of Bones” (2025)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 83 percent
The erotic thriller genre collides with a horror story in Lake of Bonesa film that only briefly hit theaters last year. Maddie Hasson And Marco Pigossi star couple, Sage and Diego, who rented a beautiful vacation home near picturesque Bone Lake. However, their plan to have some alone time is foiled when another couple, Will (Alex Roe) and Cin (Andra Nechita), is also reserved in double for the house.
Diego and Sage resolutely decide to let Will and Cin stay with them, and they are rewarded for their kindness with the ultimate test of their relationship. Will and Cin seem determined to seduce Sage and Diego respectively. But if you want to know how this becomes a horror story, just watch the movie.
Lake of Bones will be broadcast on Netflix on January 15.
2. “28 Years Later” (2025)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 89 percent
28 years later is the only movie on this list that isn’t new to Netflix this month, but we added it here because the sequel, 28 years later: the Temple of Bonesis currently playing at the cinema. Director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland reunited for this sequel to their previous film, 28 days laterwhich redefined zombies on the big screen for the 21st century.
As the title suggests, nearly three decades have passed since England fell under the rabies virus that turned most survivors into bloodthirsty zombies. At the gates of the British Isles, Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) takes his son, Spike (Alfie Williams), to the continent as a rite of passage. The infected are still on the loose, but the real threat to this father-son duo may come from the survivors who have been living among the rabid zombies for decades.
28 years later is streaming on Netflix.
1. “Licorice Pizza” (2021)
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 90 percent
Last week, the director Paul Thomas Anderson received several Oscar nominations for his latest film, the Leonardo DiCaprio action comedy One battle after another. Coincidentally, Netflix is about to release one of Anderson’s most recent films, Licorice pizza.
Paul Thomas Anderson is one of the best modern American filmmakers. Since shaking the world with Boogie Nights in 1997, the director has released banger after banger for nearly three decades. His films consistently garner critical and award recognition which have positioned him as a major artist, and his latest film, One Battle […]
The story begins in 1973, when he was a high school student, Gary Valentine (Cooper Hoffman), falls in love with Alana Kane (Alana Haim), a young woman 10 years his senior. Despite Gary’s very obvious desire to have a romantic relationship with her, Alana maintains a friendship and connection with him. It also seems like his attraction to her isn’t entirely one-sided, but the age gap between them might be what’s stopping Gary and Alana from truly being a couple.
Licorice pizza is now streaming on Netflix.
