Huzzah! Labor Day weekend is finally here! And with three days of R&R ahead, the question of what to watch is fresh on all our minds. Though with the best streaming services serving up so many new movies week after week, it can quickly become a headache to narrow down which ones are actually worth adding to your watchlist.
The Netflix top 10 is a good place to start to cut through the noise quickly, but there are inevitably going to be some over-hyped duds among the gems. That's why I regularly comb through Netflix's ranking of the most-watched movies to highlight which ones won't waste your precious streaming time.
This week, that includes an earworm-filled animated adventure from the team behind the "Spider-Verse" films that's the hit of the summer, a star-studded murder mystery in the same vein as "Knives Out," and an action-packed spy caper that the critics were wrong about.
None of these strikes your fancy? For even more streaming recommendations, be sure to check out our guide to everything new on Netflix this month. So, without further ado, let’s dive into the three must-watch movies in Netflix’s top 10.
This article is based on Netflix's top 10 movies list in the U.S. as of 11:00 a.m. ET on Saturday, August 30.
Best movies in the Netflix top 10
'The Thursday Murder Club' (2025)
It takes a tour de force to kick "K-Pop Demon Hunters" from Netflix's No. 1 spot, but "The Thursday Murder Club" managed after debuting on the platform earlier this week. Adapted from Richard Osman’s bestselling novel and directed by Harry Potter alum Chris Columbus, the film follows a group of retirees in a swanky retirement community who trade their bingo and backgammon games for cracking cold cases. But their amateur sleuthing becomes all too real when their retirement home's co-owners are found dead under suspicious circumstances.
The club’s members are as delightful as they are sharp: Elizabeth (Helen Mirren), a former spy; Ibrahim (Ben Kingsley), a retired psychiatrist; Ron (Pierce Brosnan), a former union firebrand; and their newest recruit, Joyce (Celia Imrie), a retired nurse. It’s a dream cast, and every one of them shines. "The Thursday Murder Club" is just as lively and fun as the source material, and fans of "Knives Out" should definitely add this must-watch murder mystery to their list.
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'K-Pop Demon Hunters' (2025)
"K-Pop Demon Hunters" is the hit of the summer, dominating not one, but two spots in Netflix's top 10 now that there's a sing-along version. I'm not even really a K-pop fan, but I had an absolute blast with this movie. I even rewatched it just last night to try to shake a few of its earworms out of my head. It didn't work ("So we're not heroes~ We're still survivors~"), but it was worth it to catch more of those clever little touches Sony Pictures Animation slips into every scene.
This bubble-gum pop animated adventure follows chart-topping idols Rumi (Arden Cho), Mira (May Hong), and Zoey (Ji-young Yoo)—a superstar K-pop group and the latest in a long line of demon hunters who use their music to keep evil at bay. Their biggest challenge yet comes when a pack of demons disguised as a rival boy band starts topping the charts to steal the souls of their fans. With their careers and the fate of the world on the line, the trio takes the fight to the stage, only to realize they’ll have to first face their own inner demons to stand a chance.
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'The 355' (2022)
Though "The 355" bombed at the box office, it seems to have finally found its audience on streaming, and I'm happy people are giving this much-maligned spy caper a chance. Sure, it's not capital "C" cinema, but it's fun popcorn entertainment. It's exactly what you'd expect of a star-studded action thriller, albeit with the male leads swapped for women, and I think the critics were too harsh on this one. Especially given how many "Mission Impossible" and "Fast & Furious" movies Hollywood churns out.
"The 355" brings together a powerhouse ensemble of actresses — Jessica Chastain, Penélope Cruz, Diane Kruger, and Lupita Nyong’o — as rival spies tracking down a powerful decryption drive capable of breaking into any digital system on Earth. But they’re not the only ones after it. Criminal mastermind Elijah Clarke (Jason Flemyng) will stop at nothing to get his hands on the device. When he kills one of the women's partners (Sebastian Stan), the team sets out on a globe-spanning race that eventually collides with Chinese MSS agent Li Mi Sheng (Fan Bingbing), forcing alliances to shift.
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Netflix top 10 movies right now
1. "The Thursday Murder Club" (2025)
2. "Unknown Number: The High School Catfish" (2025)
3. "K-Pop Demon Hunters" (2025)"
4. "Transformers: Rise of the Beasts" (2023)
5. "K-Pop Demon Hunters: Sing-Along" (2025)
6. "Hostiles" (2017)
7. "Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation" (2018)
8. "The Truth About Jussie Smollett?" (2025)
9. "Abandoned Man" (2025)
10. "The 355" (2022)
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