Netflix has had a huge 2026 after recruiting Reacher veteran Alan Ritchson to star in one of the most ambitious straight-to-streaming sci-fi movies of all time, War Machine. The film picked up over 125 million views during its first 30 days on streaming, making it one of the most-watched Netflix movies in history — the streamer has already confirmed that a sequel to War Machine is in the early stages of development. Before War Machine began streaming around the world, Netflix’s biggest movie of the year was The Rip, the Miami-set crime thriller led by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. Netflix’s biggest movie after that was Apex, which fell short of War Machine after earning only 100 million views in 30 days. The film stars Charlize Theron and Taron Egerton, and it was directed by Baltasar Kormakur.
Netflix is always on the lookout for its next big sleeper hit, and the latest film to swiftly take the #1 spot on streaming charts is Office Romance. The film stars Jennifer Lopez opposite long-time Ted Lasso standout Brett Goldstein, who is also famous for his work in another Apple TV show, Shrinking. It’s not even been a week since Office Romance released on Netflix around the world, and the film is already the most-watched streaming title globally. Not only that, Office Romance has already pulled 20.9 million views during its first three days on the platform. To reach the top spot, Office Romance had to claw past Swapped, the new animated family film starring Michael B. Jordan and Juno Temple. Jordan’s Creed III, which he stars in and even directed, is also in the Netflix global top 10 at the time of writing.
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
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What kind of film experience do you actually want? The best movies don’t just entertain — they leave something behind.
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Which idea grabs you most in a film? Great films are driven by a central obsession. What’s yours?
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How do you like your story told? Form is content. The way a story is shaped changes what it means.
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What makes a truly great antagonist? The opposition defines the protagonist. What kind of opposition fascinates you?
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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?
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Which setting pulls you in most? Where a film takes place shapes everything — mood, stakes, what’s even possible.
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What cinematic craft impresses you most? Every great film has a signature — a technical or artistic element that makes it unmistakable.
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What kind of main character do you root for? The protagonist is the lens. Who you choose to follow says something about you.
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How do you feel about a film that takes its time? Pace is a choice. Some films sprint; others let tension accumulate slowly, deliberately.
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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.
What Is ‘Office Romance’ About?
Office Romance follows Jackie (played by Jennifer Lopez), boss of Air Cruz, who is vehemently against any fraternizing between her employees. However, she’s forced to abandon her own policy when a sexy new lawyer, Daniel (played by Brett Goldstein), begins working in the office. Office Romance holds scores of 50% from both critics and audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, making it one of the lower-rated Netflix movies to explode with such a strong debut. Ol Parker directed the film with a script from co-star Brett Goldstein and Joe Kelly.
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