Netflix’s Current Streaming Leader
Netflix’s current streaming leader is the animated musical fantasy KPop Demon Hunters, a family-friendly feature boasting an all-star voice cast led by Arden Cho, May Hong, and Ji-young Yoo. The vibrant film has proven enormously popular, accumulating more than 184.6 million views and becoming Netflix’s most-watched animated movie to date. If you’ve already caught that phenomenon, here are three other standout films available on US Netflix worth your time.
1) Kandahar (2023)
Rotten Tomatoes: 45% | IMDb: 6.1/10
Directed by Ric Roman Waugh and scripted by former military intelligence officer Mitchell LaFortune, Kandahar is a tense spy-action thriller starring Gerard Butler as Tom Harris, a freelance operative working with the CIA. When Harris’s cover collapses during a mission in Afghanistan, he and his translator must fight through hostile territory to reach an extraction point. The cast also includes Travis Fimmel, Navid Negahban, Ali Fazal, and Corey Johnson.
Inspired in part by the writer’s real-world experiences, Kandahar emphasizes gritty,...