The ultimate days of 2025 have seen the Christmas film lineup on Netflix give option to a extra eclectic group of movies.
We suspect that even Netflix could also be shocked by its present hit motion pictures, particularly since a number of of them barely noticed the within of a theater.
To shut out the yr, Watch With Us has chosen three of Netflix’s hottest motion pictures that it’s worthwhile to watch now.
Our picks embody a romantic comedy with a real-life couple, a horror flick and an animated masterpiece.
‘The Finest You Can’ (2025)
We are able to’t assist however discover that Kyra Sedgwick‘s little-seen rom-com The Finest You Can is one in all Netflix’s top-charting motion pictures on the similar time that her drama sequence The Nearer is rating excessive on the streamer’s TV record as properly. This movie additionally marks the primary time in 20 years that Sedgwick has appeared in the identical movie as her real-life husband, Kevin Bacon.
Sedgwick performs Cynthia Rand, a lady whose older husband, Warren Rand (Judd Hirsch), is quickly succumbing to the ravages of dementia. Bacon portrays Stan Olszewski, a safety guard who saves Cynthia from a theft. From there, they strike up a friendship that more and more pushes the bounds of a platonic connection in direction of one thing extra inherently intimate. Nevertheless, Cynthia and Stan each have obligations to the individuals of their lives that will stop them from discovering love with one another.
The Finest You Can is streaming on Netflix.
‘The Lady Who Bought Away’ (2021)
The Lady Who Bought Away is a horror thriller that was dropped as a VOD launch in 2021, and it was doomed to obscurity earlier than it inexplicably hit No. 2 on Netflix’s hottest film chart. Lexi Johnson stars as Christina Bowden, a lady who endured an unspeakable nightmare by the hands of a serial killer, Elizabeth Caulfield (Kaye Tuckerman). Christina was Elizabeth’s solely sufferer who survived, and he or she’s spent years rebuilding her life.
Simply as Christina prepares to undertake a young person named Lisa (Willow McCarthy), Elizabeth levels a bloody escape from jail. Jamie Nwosu (Chukwudi Iwuji) is the police officer assigned to guard Christina from any reprisal from Elizabeth. However as individuals in Christina’s orbit wind up useless, Jamie is pressured to query if the girl he’s defending can also be a killer.
The Lady Who Bought Away is streaming on Netflix.
‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ (2018)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is an Oscar-winner for Finest Animated Image, and it doesn’t take lengthy to point out you why. The comic-book stylized pc animation is superbly rendered and sometimes visually beautiful, and the story is engrossing with out getting slowed down in multiverse absurdity. This movie additionally formally introduces Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) to the large display as an unintended Spider-Man who witnesses the demise of his predecessor, Peter Parker (Chris Pine).
As Miles makes an attempt to determine learn how to use his newfound powers, he’s joined by a pair of exiles from alternate Earths: An older Peter Parker (Jake Johnson) and Spider-Lady/Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfeld). Miles has quite a bit to find out about being a hero, and he doesn’t have a lot time to get it proper. If this workforce of Spider-heroes can’t cease Wilson Fisk (Liev Schreiber) from opening a rift to the multiverse, then this world and each different model of Earth could also be destroyed within the course of.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is streaming on Netflix.
