Netflix shares its 10 most popular original movies of all time

Description: To earn money for college, a high schooler launches an app offering his services as a fake date. But when real feelings emerge, things get complicated.Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 65%What critics said: 'The Perfect Date' feels engineered by Netflix algorithms. — Los Angeles TimesDescription: In a prison where inmates on high floors eat better than those below, who get the scant scraps, one man tries to effect change so everyone gets enough.Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 83%What critics said: If you can stomach it, 'The Platform' is a funny and fierce farce with its eyes on race, class and the ways people can rise up for the betterment of all by working together. — Detroit NewsDescription: Tim thinks he's invited the woman of his dreams on a work retreat to Hawaii, realizing too late he mistakenly texted someone from a nightmare blind date.Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 36%What critics said: One can't shake the impression that Spade has been handed his unwanted leftovers. — AV ClubDescription: Loyalties are tested when five former special forces operatives reunite to steal a drug lord's fortune, unleashing a chain of unintended consequences.Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 71%What critics said: There's a meta-narrative in there somewhere, condemning films like Triple Frontier for exploiting the violence of war for superficial ends, but Chandor doesn't delve into self-analysis long enough to make a point about it. — The WrapDescription: Hit man Frank Sheeran looks back at the secrets he kept as a loyal member of the Bufalino crime family in this acclaimed film from Martin Scorsese.Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 96%What critics said: It's the ultimate fusing of Scorsese's two sides ... And even though it takes a while to get there, the movie is a masterpiece, one made by a man counting down his own years as if they were rosary beads. — Boston Globe Description: On a long-awaited trip to Europe, a New York City cop and his hairdresser wife scramble to solve a baffling murder aboard a billionaire's yacht.Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 44%What critics said: It would be uncomfortably cynical to assume that Sandler thinks these novocaine-like comedies are what common people want to watch, but the guy doesn't leave us much choice. — IndiewireDescription: After faking his death, a tech billionaire recruits a team of international operatives for a bold and bloody mission to take down a brutal dictator.Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 36%What critics said: This is a terrible action movie that utilizes Michael Bay's worst instincts and none of his best. — NewsdayDescription: Spenser, an ex-cop and ex-con, teams up with aspiring fighter Hawk to uncover a sinister conspiracy tied to the deaths of two Boston police officers.Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 37%What critics said: It's an action-comedy-mystery-thriller that manages to spectacularly fail at all the above, an algorithmic abomination that's as coldly constructed as it is clumsily made. — GuardianDescription: 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.Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 63%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 YorkerDescription: 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.Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 68%What critics said: No judgments here if you just want to hang back and let nonstop gore, gunfire, explosions and a gung-ho Chris Hemsworth numb you into submission. — Rolling Stone

Netflix shares its 10 most popular original movies of all time

10. "The Perfect Date" (2019) — 48 million viewers in first four weeks

9. "The Platform" (2020) —56 million

8. "The Wrong Missy" (2020) — 59 million

7. "Triple Frontier" (2019) — 63 million

6. "The Irishman" (2019) — 64 million

5. "Murder Mystery" (2019) — 73 million

4. "6 Underground" (2019) — 83 million

3. "Spenser Confidential" (2020) — 85 million

2. "Bird Box" (2018) — 89 million

1. "Extraction" (2020) — 99 million