This week coincides with the beginning of February, and that means new movies have arrived on Netflix.
The streaming giant’s top 10 movies have gotten a refresh from the recent arrivals, including a few from outside studios.
Watch With Us is helping you get ready for the week ahead by sharing our picks for the three most popular Netflix movies you need to watch.
Our selections include a fantasy, an action-packed flick and a wild rom-com filled with familiar stars like Zac Efron.
‘Night at the Museum’ (2006)
Two decades ago, Ben Stiller kicked off a comedic fantasy trilogy with Night at the Museum. Stiller plays Larry Daley, a divorced father whose luck finally seems to be improving when he’s hired as a security guard for the American Museum of Natural History in New York. On his first day, Larry discovers that Theodore Roosevelt (Robin Williams) and other figures at the museum come to life at night thanks to an ancient Egyptian artifact.
When Larry attempts to share the secret with his son, Nick (Jake Cherry), the father-and-son duo stumble across a plot to rob the museum of its greatest treasure. That’s more than they can handle by themselves. Luckily, they aren’t alone in the museum, and the historical figures won’t go down without a fight.
Night at the Museum is streaming on Netflix.
‘Copshop’ (2021)
Copshop may have hit theaters at the wrong time, because this action thriller feels like it would have gotten a better response outside of the pandemic era. Gerard Butler leads the cast as Robert K. Viddick, an assassin working for the mob who is out to kill Teddy Murretto (Frank Gillo). And when Teddy decides that the best place to hide is behind bars, Robert fearlessly gets himself arrested as well.
Rookie police officer Valerie Young (Alexis Louder) doesn’t know what she’s gotten herself into. She brought these two men to jail, but only one of them is likely to survive their face-off. Valerie’s more pressing concern is that she may not live through the bloodbath to come, and Robert isn’t the only stone-cold killer coming to take out Teddy. Valerie doesn’t have any place she can run as the precinct erupts in violence, so she’ll have to fight back if she wants to live.
Copshop is streaming on Netflix.
‘Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates’ (2016)
If there’s a lesson at the heart of Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, it’s this one: don’t use Craigslist as a dating app. Mike (Adam DeVine) and Dave (Zac Efron) don’t have any better ideas, but their stunt only attracts the wrong kind of attention from Alice Davis (Anna Kendrick) and Tatiana Darcy (Aubrey Plaza).
Alice and Tatiana aren’t actually interested in dating Mike and Dave, but a destination wedding in Hawaii is too good for them to pass up. After conning the brothers into taking them along, Tatiana and Alice unleash chaos in the wedding party and threaten to accidentally break up the happy couple, Jeanie (Sugar Lyn Beard) and Eric (Sam Richardson), before they can walk down the aisle and exchange vows.
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates is streaming on Netflix.
