{"id":9824,"date":"2026-01-25T18:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T18:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/5-best-netflix-movies-to-watch-right-now-ranked-by-rotten-tomatoes-january-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T18:16:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T18:16:00","slug":"5-best-netflix-movies-to-watch-right-now-ranked-by-rotten-tomatoes-january-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/5-best-netflix-movies-to-watch-right-now-ranked-by-rotten-tomatoes-january-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Best Netflix Movies to Watch Right Now, Ranked by Rotten Tomatoes (January 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It\u2019s impressive that Netflix is arriving in the middle of January with a largely fresh lineup of movies that have high Rotten Tomatoes scores.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the newcomers landed below the 90 percent mark, but it\u2019s such an eclectic group that movie fans of all stripes should be happy.<\/p>\n<p>Watch With Us has narrowed the selections down to the five best Netflix movies right now, as ranked by Rotten Tomatoes.<\/p>\n<p>Action and horror are both well-represented on this list, but there\u2019s a coming-of-age flick that landed at No. 1.<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/brdigerton-season-4.jpg?crop=0px%2C45px%2C1918px%2C1086px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Yerin Ha and Luke Thompson in Bridgerton season 4\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-fallback-img=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/brdigerton-season-4.jpg?quality=86&amp;strip=all\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n<p>    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">New on Netflix in January 2026 \u2014 The Full List of Movies and TV Shows<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tDoes Netflix ever take a break? The popular streamer just capped 2025 with its big Stranger Things send-off, but it\u2019s already lining up some of its biggest shows and movies of 2026 in January. At the top of the list is Bridgerton, which returns for a fourth season filled with drama, scandal and impeccably tailored [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>5. \u2018Stone Cold Fox\u2019 (2025)<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stone Cold Fox | Official Trailer (HD) | Vertical\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hFyWk_ijebk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rotten Tomatoes Score: 60 percent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Chilling Adventures of Sabrina<\/em> star <strong>Kiernan Shipka<\/strong> is back on Netflix this month with a leading role in the action thriller <em>Stone Cold Fox<\/em>. Shipka plays Fox, a runaway who finds herself romantically entangled with a drug dealer named Goldie (<strong>Krysten Ritter<\/strong>). Fox is fine with their arrangement until she sees that her sister, Spooky (<strong>Bluesy Burke<\/strong>), has apparently run away from home as well, only to be kidnapped off the street.<\/p>\n<p>Fox will do anything to save her sister, even if it means stabbing Goldie in the back and going off by herself. It\u2019s a dangerous road she\u2019s embarked upon, and Fox may not be able to see her mission through to completion.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stone Cold Fox<\/em> is streaming on Netflix.<\/p>\n<h2>4. \u2018Becky\u2019 (2020)<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Becky | Official Trailer\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nvdh5IK1KJk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rotten Tomatoes Score: 72 percent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Comedian <strong>Kevin James<\/strong> has a rare villainous turn in <em>Becky<\/em>, but the film belongs to <strong>Lulu Wilson<\/strong>, who plays the titular 13-year-old girl. Becky feels blindsided when her widowed father, Jeff (<strong>Joel McHale<\/strong>), announces that he\u2019s marrying his girlfriend, Kayla (<strong>Amanda Brugel<\/strong>), and bringing her son, Ty (<strong>Isaiah Rockcliffe<\/strong>), into the family as well.<\/p>\n<p>After Becky runs off to process the news, her family is taken hostage by Dominick (James) and his men. These people are willing to murder Becky\u2019s family to get what they want, but they don\u2019t know what they\u2019ve unleashed. Becky has a killer instinct that no one expected, and she\u2019s about to go <em>Die Hard<\/em> on the punks who threatened her family.<\/p>\n<p><em>Becky<\/em> is streaming on Netflix.<\/p>\n<h2>3. \u2018Bone Lake\u2019 (2025)<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bone Lake | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mQy7BuW-R6c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rotten Tomatoes Score: 83 percent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The erotic thriller genre collides with a horror story in<em> Bone Lake<\/em>, a film that was only briefly in theaters last year. <strong>Maddie Hasson<\/strong> and <strong>Marco Pigossi<\/strong> star as a couple, Sage and Diego, who rented a beautiful vacation home near scenic Bone Lake. However, their plan for some time alone is foiled when another couple, Will (<strong>Alex Roe<\/strong>) and Cin (<strong>Andra Nechita<\/strong>), is double-booked for the home as well.<\/p>\n<p>Diego and Sage gamely decide to let Will and Cin stay with them, and they\u2019re repaid for their kindness with the ultimate test of their relationship. Will and Cin seem intent on seducing Sage and Diego, respectively. But if you want to know how this becomes a horror story, you\u2019re just going to have to watch the movie.<\/p>\n<p><em>Bone Lake<\/em> will stream on Netflix on January 15.<\/p>\n<h2>2. \u201928 Years Later\u2019 (2025)<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"28 YEARS LATER \u2013 Official Trailer (HD)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mcvLKldPM08?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rotten Tomatoes Score: 89 percent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>28 Years Later<\/em> is the only film on this list that isn\u2019t new to Netflix this month, but we threw it on here because the sequel, <em>28 Years Later: The Bone Temple<\/em>, is currently playing in theaters. Director <strong>Danny Boyle<\/strong> and screenwriter <strong>Alex Garland<\/strong> reunited for this sequel to their previous film, <em>28 Days Later<\/em>, which redefined zombies on the big screen for the 21st century.<\/p>\n<p>As the title implies, nearly three decades have passed since England fell to the rage virus that transformed most of the survivors into bloodthirsty zombies. On the outskirts of the British Isles, Jamie (<strong>Aaron Taylor-Johnson<\/strong>) takes his son, Spike (<strong>Alfie Williams<\/strong>), to the mainland as a rite of passage. The infected are still roaming, but the real threat to this father and son duo may come from the survivors who have lived among the rage zombies for decades.<\/p>\n<p><em>28 Years Later<\/em> is streaming on Netflix.<\/p>\n<h2>1. \u2018Licorice Pizza\u2019 (2021)<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LICORICE PIZZA | Official Trailer | MGM Studios\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ofnXPwUPENo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rotten Tomatoes Score: 90 percent<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Just this past week, director <strong>Paul Thomas Anderson<\/strong> received multiple Oscar nominations for his latest film, the <strong>Leonardo DiCaprio<\/strong> action-comedy <em>One Battle After Another<\/em>. In a case of fortuitous timing, Netflix is about to stream one of Anderson\u2019s most recent films, <em>Licorice Pizza<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/licorice-pizza.jpg?w=400&amp;h=225&amp;crop=1&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Bradley Cooper in Licorice Pizza\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-fallback-img=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/licorice-pizza.jpg?quality=86&amp;strip=all\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n<p>    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">7 Best Paul Thomas Anderson Movies, Ranked<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tPaul Thomas Anderson is one of the best modern American filmmakers. Since he shook the world with Boogie Nights back in 1997, the director has released banger after banger for nearly three decades. His films are always critical and award darlings that have positioned him as a major artist, and his newest film, One Battle [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The story begins in 1973, as a high school student, Gary Valentine (<strong>Cooper Hoffman<\/strong>), becomes infatuated with Alana Kane (<strong>Alana Haim<\/strong>), a young woman who is 10 years his senior. Despite Gary\u2019s very obvious desire to have a romance with her, Alana maintains a friendship and bond with him. It also seems like his attraction to her isn\u2019t entirely one-sided, but the age gap between them may be the thing that prevents Gary and Alana from ever truly being a couple.<\/p>\n<p><em>Licorice Pizza<\/em> is now streaming on Netflix.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s impressive that Netflix is arriving in the middle of January with a largely fresh lineup of movies that have high Rotten Tomatoes scores. Most of the newcomers landed below the 90 percent mark, but it\u2019s such an eclectic group that movie fans of all stripes should be happy. 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