2020 Netflix Movies

Want to know the best 2020 Netflix movies?  How about the worst 2020 Netflix movies?  Curious about 2020 Netflix streaming success or which 2020 Netflix movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which 2020 Netflix movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place.

We here at UMR have been wrestling what to do with streaming movies for a few years now. Originally, we just ignored them. A couple of years ago, we started adding streaming movies into the database but basically punished them for having no box office grosses when it came to our rankings.  During the dreaded year of 2020, we finally realized we HAD to come up with a way to rank streaming movies more fairly.  We spent months researching and studying streaming numbers from places like FlixPatrol and Forbes.  We compared those numbers to the occasional numbers that Netflix shared.  We looked at how UMR ranked box office.  We took all this information, we tested it, we compared it and we did some test runs.  The end result was a category called Streaming Score.  The following table shows our first attempt in using Streaming Score to rank online movies.

The table below ranks every Netflix movie released in 2020.  That would be movies made for Netflix or movies that Netflix bought for exclusive rights for their platform.  Below that table is an in-depth breakdown of our Streaming Score formula.

2020 Netflix Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort 2020 Netflix movies by movie title and movie trailers.
  • Sort 2020 Netflix movies by stars of the movies.
  • Sort 2020 Netflix movies by Streaming Score – the scale is 1 to 100.  100 being the highest.
  • Sort 2020 Netflix movies how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations each 2020 Netflix movie received and how many Oscar® wins each 2020 Netflix movie won.
  • Sort 2020 Netflix movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.

RankMovie (Year)UMR Co-StarsStreaming ScoreAVG Review %Oscar Noms/WinsUMR Score
Extraction (2020)Chris Hemsworth99.9968.00%00 / 0094.61
Enola Holmes (2020)Helena Bonham Carter &
Henry Cavill
82.1573.50%00 / 0092.84
The Old Guard (2020)Charlize Theron69.8573.50%00 / 0090.53
The Christmas Chronicles 2 (2020)Kurt Russell &
Goldie Hawn
81.7264.00%00 / 0090.48
Spenser Confidential (2020)Mark Wahlberg &
Alan Arkin
90.0037.00%00 / 0089.36
Project Power (2020)Jamie Foxx &
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
65.0056.50%00 / 0085.35
Holidate (2020)Emma Roberts75.3062.50%00 / 0084.64
We Can Be Heroes (2020)Christian Slater67.9554.00%00 / 0083.99
Over The Moon (2020)John Cho43.7057.50%00 / 0083.29
#Alive (2020)Yoo Ah-In36.2572.00%00 / 0082.92
The Devil All the Time (2020)Tom Holland &
Robert Pattinson
41.2076.00%00 / 0082.82
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)Joseph Gordon-Levitt &
Eddie Redmayne
18.8872.50%00 / 0079.84
The Babysitter: Killer Queen (2020)Judah Lewis28.5082.50%00 / 0078.38
Mosul (2019)Waleed Elgadi27.8574.00%00 / 0078.08
Work It (2020)Keiynan Lonsdale40.8074.00%00 / 0077.76
The Platform (2019)Ivan Massagué25.8041.00%00 / 0077.70
Hubie Halloween (2020)Adam Sandler52.8065.00%00 / 0077.27
The Willoughbys (2020)Will Forte23.2575.00%00 / 0077.16
The Sleepover (2020)Sadie Stanley32.4056.50%00 / 0075.64
California Christmas, A (2020)Lauren Swickard42.8076.00%00 / 0072.71
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020)Will Ferrell &
Rachel McAdams
24.5068.00%00 / 0072.06
The Life Ahead (2020)Sophia Loren11.5558.00%00 / 0071.99
The Kissing Booth 2 (2020)Joey King63.8069.50%00 / 0071.22
Death To 2020 (2020)Samuel L. Jackson &
Hugh Grant
30.2578.00%00 / 0071.22
The Half Of It (2020)Leah Lewis16.0543.00%00 / 0069.33
The Call (2020)Park Shin-Hye15.2065.00%00 / 0068.64
Midnight Sky, The (2020)George Clooney46.0073.00%00 / 0068.00
Ludo (2020)Pankaj Tripathi12.0073.00%00 / 0067.33
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)Chadwick Boseman &
Viola Davis
0.9052.00%00 / 0066.08
Da 5 Bloods (2020)Chadwick Boseman &
Directed by Spike Lee
14.4474.00%00 / 0066.01
Lost Bullet (2020)Alban Lenoir22.6580.50%00 / 0065.94
Rebecca (2020)Lily James31.7071.50%00 / 0064.37
Princess Switch: Switched Again, The (2020)Vanessa Hudgens35.7566.00%00 / 0063.81
Love, Guaranteed (2020)Rachel Leigh Cook38.4059.00%00 / 0063.50
The Prom (2020)Meryl Streep &
Nicole Kidman
20.5056.00%00 / 0063.05
Feel The Beat (2020)Sofia Carson37.8554.00%00 / 0062.92
His House (2020)Sope Dirisu4.7065.50%00 / 0062.35
Mank (2020)Gary Oldman &
Directed by David Fincher
0.3554.00%00 / 0061.86
Rose Island (2020)Matilda De Angelis12.1575.50%00 / 0061.39
The Forty-Year-Old Version (2020)Radha Blank0.5078.00%00 / 0060.59
Bulbbul (2020)Tripti Dimri2.3070.00%00 / 0060.55
The Wrong Missy (2020)David Spade31.9077.50%00 / 0059.07
Isi & Ossi (2020)Lisa Vacari0.2534.50%00 / 0058.35
All Together Now (2020)Auli'i Cravalho8.5076.00%00 / 0057.55
Serious Men (2020)Nawazuddin Siddiqui4.8055.50%00 / 0056.65
Tigertail (2020)Tzi Ma0.6076.00%00 / 0055.51
The Paramedic (2020)Mario Casas27.7570.00%00 / 0055.25
A Whisker Away (2020)Mirai Shida4.2572.00%00 / 0052.48
Operation Christmas Drop (2020)Alexander Ludwig33.9574.00%00 / 0051.67
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)Toni Collette5.8556.00%00 / 0051.65
Offering To The Storm (2020)Marta Etura6.0070.00%00 / 0050.99
Desperados (2020)Heather Graham26.2550.00%00 / 0049.65
Bronx/Rogue City (2020)Lannick Gautry31.6068.50%00 / 0046.35
The Last Thing He Wanted (2020)Ben Affleck & Anne Hathaway6.2335.00%00 / 0049.19
Angela's Christmas Wish (2020)Ruth Negga2.4068.00%00 / 0046.17
Raat Akeli Hai (2020)Nawazuddin Siddiqui3.9554.00%00 / 0046.13
I'm No Longer Here (2019)Daniel Garcia0.6549.00%00 / 0045.67
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs the Reverend (2020)Daniel Radcliffe0.1568.00%00 / 0045.03
Nobody Knows I'm Here (2020)Jorge Garcia1.3067.00%00 / 0044.64
Lost Girls (2020)Amy Ryan &
Gabriel Byrne
3.2040.00%00 / 0042.55
All The Bright Places (2020)Elle Fanning &
Luke Wilson
0.6036.00%00 / 0042.35
Crimes That Bind, The (2020)Cecilia Roth5.8069.00%00 / 0042.32
School Life (2019)Zita Hanrot0.8069.00%00 / 0041.83
Time To Hunt (2020)Lee Jehoon2.9568.00%00 / 0040.49
You've Got This (2020)Tato Alexander10.5566.00%00 / 0040.29
Freaks - You Are One Of Us (2020)Cornelia Gröschel12.9067.50%00 / 0039.59
The Boys In The Band (2020)Jim Parsons0.6764.00%00 / 0039.27
Citation (2020)Jimmy Jean-Louis5.0067.00%00 / 0039.01
Notes For My Son (2020)Valeria Bertuccelli3.0565.00%00 / 0038.65
Hillbilly Elegy (2020)Amy Adams &
Glenn Close
8.0060.00%00 / 0037.79
The Lovebirds (2020)Kumail Nanjiani &
Issa Rae
5.6558.00%00 / 0037.69
To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You (2020)Lana Condor0.5031.00%00 / 0037.34
The Decline (2020)Guillaume Laurin5.7548.00%00 / 0035.95
Unknown Origins (2020)Javier Rey3.9066.00%00 / 0035.29
Dangerous Lies (2020)Elliott Gould23.1063.00%00 / 0034.65
Don't Listen (2020)Rodolfo Sancho9.2064.00%00 / 0034.56
Horse Girl (2020)Alison Brie0.5028.00%00 / 0034.53
All Day And A Night (2020)Jeffrey Wright6.7560.50%00 / 0032.88
Ultras (2020)Aniello Arena4.4539.00%00 / 0031.69
Christmas on the Square (2020)Dolly Parton2.1062.00%00 / 0028.58
Malibu Rescue: The Next Wave (2020)Curtis Armstrong13.9065.00%00 / 0027.81
Beast, The (2020)Fabrizio Gifuni25.8061.00%00 / 0027.80
The Occupant (2020)Mario Casas6.0037.00%00 / 0026.36
Crazy Awesome Teachers (2020)Gading Marten0.1062.00%00 / 0026.32
Dad Wanted (2020)Mauricio Argüelles12.4049.00%00 / 0026.32
Fierce (2020)Julia Kaminska2.2558.00%00 / 0025.22
What We Wanted (2020)Lavinia Wilson5.2564.00%00 / 0025.03
Sergio (2020)Bradley Whitford3.5559.00%00 / 0023.09
Ginny Weds Sunny (2020)Yami Gautam6.0560.00%00 / 0022.40
Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl (2020)Janhvi Kapoor4.6060.00%00 / 0022.30
Rich in Love (2020)Danilo Mesquita4.5052.00%00 / 0022.22
I Love You, Stupid (2020)Quim Gutiérrez4.2544.00%00 / 0021.98
Choked:Paisa Bolta Hai (2020)Saiyami Kher0.8056.00%00 / 0021.76
Airplane Mode (2020)Larissa Manoela0.5027.00%00 / 0020.65
Cuties (2020)Fathia Youssouf4.0060.00%00 / 0020.14
So Much Love To Give (2020)Soledad Villamil1.8552.00%00 / 0019.33
Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight (2020)Julia Wieniawa-Narkiewicz7.4558.00%00 / 0018.87
Love Wedding Repeat (2020)Sam Claflin16.4056.00%00 / 0018.79
Coffee & Kareem (2020)Ed Helms &
Taraji P. Henson
11.0056.00%00 / 0018.42
Earth and Blood (2020)Sami Bouajila7.5054.00%00 / 0017.85
Go Karts! (2020)Frances O'Connor2.2024.00%00 / 0015.70
Rising High (2020)David Kross2.4555.00%00 / 0015.46
Seriously Single (2020)Fulu Mugovhani11.2555.00%00 / 0015.19
Intuition (2020)Luisana Lopilato7.9555.00%00 / 0015.14
Òlòturé (2019)Ada Ameh5.1057.00%00 / 0015.14
One -Way To Tomorrow (2020)Metin Akdülger2.1057.00%00 / 0015.02
Fearless (2020)Susan Sarandon3.1554.00%00 / 0014.89
Horrid Henry's Gross Day Out (2020)Emma Tate0.2055.00%00 / 0011.08
The Binding(2020)Riccardo Scamarcio3.1051.00%00 / 0011.04
Under the Riccione Sun (2020)Cristiano Caccamo3.0045.00%00 / 0011.00
The Players (2020)Riccardo Scamarcio2.0048.00%00 / 0010.33
The Silence of the Marsh (2019)Pedro Alonso5.6550.00%00 / 008.66
The Main Event(2020)Seth Carr8.6353.00%00 / 004.95
Class of '83 (2020)Bobby Deol4.2552.00%00 / 004.32
Berlin, Berlin (2020)Farouk El-Khalili0.3046.00%00 / 004.14
The Last Days of American Crime (2020)Edgar Ramírez26.0048.00%00 / 004.12
Guilty (2020)Kiara Advani0.6738.00%00 / 003.71
All Because Of You (2020)Hairul Azreen0.6050.00%00 / 002.91
Kaali Khuhi (2020)Shabana Azmi1.1052.00%00 / 002.56
Leyla Everlasting (2020)Haluk Bilginer0.8051.00%00 / 002.11
Christmas Crossfire (2020)Kostja Ullmann0.1550.00%00 / 001.68
Mrs. Serial Killer (2020)Jacqueline Fernandez0.8048.00%00 / 000.92
Mark Of The Devil (2020)Eduardo Noriega3.4044.00%00 / 000.70
Dark Forces (2020)Tenoch Huerta0.5048.00%00 / 000.40

  1.  In February 2020, Netflix unveiled their Daily Top 10.  This listed the most viewed movies and shows on Netflix for each day.
  2. Websites like Forbes and FlixPatrol started tracking that information.
  3. Eventually, Forbes and FlixPatrol created equations that assigned a point system for how long a movie was popular on Netflix.
  4. The longer a movie stayed in the Top 10, the more points the movie earned.
  5. We compared their totals and started using their totals in our very own formula.
  6. We went and researched every time Netflix either shared some viewing numbers or shared how many minutes were spent watching a movie.  For example:  The first week The Christmas Chronicles 2 was released it was viewed for 1.5 BILLION minutes. Or….Extraction was the most viewed movie of all-time on Netflix.
  7. We then compared Netflix numbers with Forbes and FlixPatrol’s numbers.
  8. Using Extraction as the ceiling…..we rated every other Netflix compared to Extraction.  The scale was 0 to 99.99…with Extraction getting a 99.99.
  9. Next we replaced our box office gross totals with our Streaming Score in our UMR formula.
  10. In our UMR formula, box office is worth 30% of the score.  In our Streaming Score formula we used the same 30%.So a movie that earned a 90 Streaming Score would earn 27 points in our formula.
  11. Next we added in critic and audience ratings, added in awards points and the Streaming Score points and we had a new and better UMR score for streaming movies.

Will this change as more information becomes available?…of course.  Does it cause havoc with our database?….of course.  Is it accurate?….who knows.  I like how the final rankings turned out.  It seems a much accurate picture of a movie’s success.  WoC is working on redesigning the website, so a table will either have box office grosses or Streaming Score.  That will also allow us to go back to a dynamic page.

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25 thoughts on “2020 Netflix Movies

  1. From the chart I only recognise 6 titles that I know I’ve seen, there may be others but I’ve forgotten what they were called. Favorites are – Extraction, Project Power, Enola Holmes, Eurovision Song Contest, The Old Guard and The Trial of the Chicago 7. I’ve only watched them once but I did enjoy them.

    Other Netflix films I enjoyed from previous years are – Bird Box (Sandra Bullock), Triple Frontier (Ben Affleck) and 6 Underground (Ryan Reynolds).

    I still haven’t seen The Christmas Chronicles. tsk tsk

    Good work Bruce. Vote Up!

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