Netflix announced in November 2021 (in no small part thanks to the success of Squid Game) that it would be publishing a weekly list (opens in new tab) detailing its most popular movies over a seven-day period.
Ranking titles based on weekly hours viewed – i.e. the total number of hours subscribers around the world watched each title between Monday and Sunday of the previous week – Netflix regularly shares four separate lists; two for movies (English and Non-English) and two for TV shows (English and Non-English).
Whether or not the best Netflix movies make it to the top of these charts is up to the streamer’s viewing public – and feature-length documentaries have been known to sneak into the rankings, too – but below, we’ve rounded up the 10 most popular English-speaking movies on the streamer this past week.
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1. The In Between
Release date: April 8, 2022
Hours viewed: 26.77 million
Weeks in Top 10: 1
2. The Adam Project
Release date: March 11, 2022
Hours viewed: 10.9 million
Weeks in Top 10: 5
3. The Bubble
Release date: April 1, 2022
Hours viewed: 9.95 million
Weeks in Top 10: 2
4. Shrek Forever After
Release date: July 2, 2010
Hours viewed: 9.77 million
Weeks in Top 10: 2
5. The Blind Side
Release date: November 20, 2009
Hours viewed: 8.71 million
Weeks in Top 10: 2
6. Four Brothers
Release date: August 12, 2005
Hours viewed: 8.17 million
Weeks in Top 10: 1
7. Enough
Release date: 21 May, 2002
Hours viewed: 5.79 million
Weeks in Top 10: 1
8. How It Ends
Release date: July 13, 2018
Hours viewed: 5.65 million
Weeks in Top 10: 1
9. Shrek
Release date: June 29, 2001
Hours viewed: 5.34 million
Weeks in Top 10: 5
10. Return to Space
Release date: February 1, 2019
Hours viewed: 6.14 million
Weeks in Top 10: 1
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