Rebel Moon is still Netflix’s #1 movie, but Top Gun: Maverick is the action thriller you should be watching

If you’re a fan of rootin', tootin', mid-air shootin', one of our favorite movies is flying high in the Netflix movie charts

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There was never any doubt thatRebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Firewould be a holiday hit forNetflix, and the latest global top 10 is proof: it’s topping the chart for the second week, racking up 34 million views and 77 million viewing hours. That’s more than double the views of the second most popular movie and previous chart-topperLeave The World Behind.

But for all its wonders,Rebel Moonisn’t quite as much fun as the film currently sitting at number seven in the Netflix chart.Top Gun: Maverickis one of the most entertaining films we’ve seen in the last couple of years, and as we said in ourTop Gun: Maverickreviewit “strikes a near perfect balance between heart, humor and jaw-dropping spectacle to earn its wings as a bona fide blockbuster… [it shows] what movies can still achieve in the age of streaming.”

It’s currently sitting with a very respectable 96% on Rotten Tomatoes, and according to our pals atGamesRadarit is “an expertly crafted, thunderously enjoyable and surprisingly emotional blockbuster.” We couldn’t agree more.

If you haven’t seen either of these movies yet and you’re looking for something full of action,Maverickis 100% the way to go.

What other films were Netflix holiday hits?

At number three there’s an oldie:Pretty Woman, which racked up 8.4 million views last week. Like many movies of its era – it’s over 30 years old – it hasn’t aged very well; The Guardiansaysthat while it came out in the 1990s, “it’s as 1980s asDonkey Kong, Bananarama and the Rubik’s Cube… star power takes it much further than it has any right to go.”

Number four is considerably less controversial.Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nuggetisn’t quite as good as the originalChicken Run, but even a middling Aardman movie is much more fun than many other animations. Next on the list isThe SuperMarioBros. Movie, which is currently sitting at 59% positive ratings from the critics on Rotten Tomatoes: Decidersaysthat that one “feels like it was written by a calculator” and we think that’s not far off. It’s a perfectly fine movie, but you’re in no danger of getting lost in any depth to it.

In at number six is the sweet Adam Sandler animationLeo, a good-natured comedy about a talking classroom pet who helps a whole bunch of kids learn some important life lessons. My 10-year-old can confirm that it is “very funny” but “has too many songs”. Not everyone will necessarily agree with the second part.

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Maverickis after that, and then two of the final three places go to films from the Sniper franchise.Sniper: Ultimate KillandSniper: Assassin’s Endare at number 8 and number 10 respectively, sandwiching sub-par kid-flickThe Boss Baby: Family Business.

OnlyMaverickis really troubling our list of thebest Netflix moviesfrom the top 10, then (though some will surely thinkPretty Womanshould be in there), but if you’ve already seen it 15 times likesomepeople on the TechRadar team have [I use it for testing Dolby Atmos systems, okay? - Ed] check out these4 new movies on Netflix in January 2024 with over 90% on Rotten Tomatoes.

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Writer, broadcaster, musician and kitchen gadget obsessive Carrie Marshall has been writing about tech since 1998, contributing sage advice and odd opinions to all kinds of magazines and websites as well as writing more than a dozen books. Her memoir,Carrie Kills A Man, is on sale now and her next book, about pop music, is out in 2025. She is the singer in Glaswegian rock bandUnquiet Mind.

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