
Having said all that, let’s take a closer look at the ranking above. Image source: Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images How Netflix measures success In this photo illustration, the Netflix logo in the App Store is seen displayed on a smartphone screen.
#TOP TEN NETFLIX MOVIES 2021 MOVIE#
Netflix tracks the raw number of viewing hours that its movies rack up over that time period - and the company then estimates a very rough audience size based on dividing the movie’s aggregate hours viewed by its total runtime.Īmong other things, this calculation of Netflix’s most-watched movies helps prevent a shorter movie from being at an automatic disadvantage compared to a longer feature film (since this calculation spreads out the time spent watching a movie evenly over its total audience). The answer more or less lies in the total number of hours a movie was streamed over its first 91 days on the service following its premiere date - but it’s also a little more complicated than that.

You might ask, though: What makes a film Like Purple Hearts, Bird Box, The Gray Man, or Extraction among the top, “most-watched” movies on Netflix? That’s actually something of a moving target that’s changed over the years. Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence, in the Netflix movie “Don’t Look Up.” Image source: Niko Tavernise/Netflix Purple Hearts (2022) - 127.2 million viewsĮach of these films has amassed an impressive amount of viewership within the first 91 days of their release, solidifying their status as the 10 must-watch movies on the streaming platform.

