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Travis Clark and Julie Gerstein
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- "Red Notice" is Netflix's biggest original movie ever, with 239.4 million views.
- "Extraction 2" is the most recent addition to the list, and the combined "Extraction" movies have more than 270 million views.
- Netflix's also look at hours viewed, which gives a boost to longer movies like the 2-1/2 hour "Don't Look Up."
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10. "Extraction 2" (2023) —134.9 million views
Description: After barely surviving the events of the first movie, Rake is back as the Australian black ops mercenary, tasked with another deadly mission: rescuing the battered family of a ruthless Georgian gangster from the prison where they are being held.
Hours viewed: 278.7 million
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 79%
What critics said: "With its bigger, broader swath of carnage, Extraction 2 improves upon the original and isn't unpleasant (you know, unless you're bothered by watching hundreds of deaths on screen)." — Mashable
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9. "Extraction" (2020) — 135.7 million views
Description:"A hardened mercenary's mission becomes a soul-searching race to survive when he's sent into Bangladesh to rescue a drug lord's kidnapped son."
Hours viewed:266.6 million
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 67%
What critics said: "The one big weapon it has — Hemsworth's ability to juxtapose his brawn with approachable charm — is one it never pulls from its holster." —Polygon
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8. "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery" (2022) — 136.3 million views
Description: "World-famous detective Benoit Blanc heads to Greece to peel back the layers of a mystery surrounding a tech billionaire and his eclectic crew of friends."
Hours viewed: 320.3 million
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 92%
What critics said: "The twisty plot isn't quite as ingenious as [Rian] Johnson's last one, but the writer-director has gone all-out to make everything in Glass Onion as big, broad, funny and colourful as Daniel Craig's southern drawl." — BBC
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7. "The Mother" (2023) — 136.4 million views
Description: "A military-trained assassin comes out of hiding to protect the daughter she's never met from ruthless criminals gunning for revenge."
Hours viewed:265.9 million hours
Rotten Tomatoes critics score: 43%
What critics said: "Despite well-choreographed action and a gritty performance from Jennifer Lopez, 'The Mother' is not the Mother's Day vehicle Netflix had hoped it would be." — Film Inquiry
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6. We Can Be Heroes — 137.3 million views
Description: "When alien invaders kidnap Earth's superheroes, their children must team up and learn to work together if they want to save their parents and the world."
Hours viewed:231.2 million
Rotten Tomatoes score: 74%
What critics said:A sort of sequel to "Sharkboy and Lava Girl," this film gives kids exactly what they want. Adults? Not so much. — San Jose Mercury News
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5. "The Gray Man" (2022) — 139.3 million views
Description:"When a shadowy CIA agent uncovers damning agency secrets, he's hunted across the globe by a sociopathic rogue operative who's put a bounty on his head."
Hours viewed:299.5 million
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 46%
What critics said: "The film exists to set up sequels, to spend money on fancy location shoots, and to look glamorous and exciting; every harder edge has been sanded down to nothing." —The Atlantic
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4. "Bird Box" (2018) — 157.4 million views
Description:"Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety."
Hours viewed: 325.3 million
Rotten Tomatoes critic score:64%
What critics said: "Unfortunately, Bird Box puts these performers through familiar paces, in roles of such tight typecasting that they seem like recurring characters in an extended TV series." —New Yorker
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3. "The Adam Project" (2022) — 157.6 million views
Description:"After accidentally crash-landing in 2022, time-traveling fighter pilot Adam Reed teams up with his 12-year-old self on a mission to save the future."
Hours viewed:281 million
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 69%
What critics said: "It's an assemblage of ideas from other popular films that just hangs there with little cohesion. It's like watching a movie that hasn't been made yet." —Vulture
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2. "Don't Look Up" (2021) — 171.4 million views
Description:"Two astronomers go on a media tour to warn humankind of a planet-killing comet hurtling toward Earth."
Hours viewed:408.6 million
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 55%
What critics said: "McKay's movies are not particularly pointed in their satire and, as time has gone on, have increasingly settled into their preferred form of a harangue." —Vulture
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1. "Red Notice" (2021) — 230.9 views
Description: "An FBI profiler pursuing the world's most wanted art thief becomes his reluctant partner in crime to catch an elusive crook who's always one step ahead."
Hours viewed:454.2 million
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 36%
What critics said: "Red Notice is limp and dull, and does more to showcase the shortcomings of each of its marquee idols than it does to highlight their bankable charisma." —Vanity Fair
Disclosure: Mathias Döpfner, CEO of Business Insider's parent company, Axel Springer, is a Netflix board member.
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