The 7 Best New Movies on Netflix You Can't Miss in February 2024
These movies on Netflix will brighten your February nights with their artistic brilliance.
Despite the recent WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, 2024 promises to be just as noisy as the previous year for theatrical releases.
Until then, pass the time by streaming the latest movies available on Netflix.
7. Magic Mike's Last Dance
Release Date (Theaters): February 10, 2023
Release Date (Netflix): February 1, 2024
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 48%
Netflix's February release slate kicks off with the third installment of Steven Soderbergh's R-rated comedy-drama Magic Mike, loosely based on the experiences of Channing Tatum, who worked in male stripping before to Hollywood stardom. This time Tatum's character, Magic Mike, finds himself in London to help a Florida socialite, played by Salma Hayek, produce a stage play.
6. The Great Gatsby
Release Date (Theaters): May 10, 2013
Release Date (Netflix): Februaty 1, 2024
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 48%
Also available on Netflix is one of the best films of the early 2010s, albeit one that received mixed reviews from critics: Baz Luhrmann 's adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's cult classic, The Great Gatsby. Many didn't like the modern take on the Roaring 20s, but let's be honest, in retrospect, Luhrmann's expressionism was the best representation of the decadent madness of the Jazz Age.
5. Moneyball
Release Date (Theaters): September 23, 2011
Release Date (Netflix): February 1, 2024
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 94%
You don't have to like baseball to enjoy Moneyball — after all, not everyone was interested in the stock market to fall in love with The Wolf of Wall Street. The story follows Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) and Peter Brand (Jonah Hill) as they try to turn the baseball industry upside down by using a limited budget and sabermetric approach to assemble the Oakland Athletics team from unknown talent.
4. X
Release Date (Theaters): March 18, 2022
Release Date (Netflix): February 1, 2024
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 94%
Netflix has also quietly added to its library one of the best elevated horrors of recent years, A24's X, which, like its setting, is stylistically and thematically a love ode to '70s grindhouse slashers. Directed by acclaimed horror auteur Ti West and starring the magnificent Mia Goth, X is chaotic, provocative and, despite its subject matter, incredibly sex-positive.
3. Ready Player One
Release Date (Theaters): March 29, 2018
Release Date (Netflix): February 3, 2024
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 72%
Steven Spielberg 's Ready Player One received a lot of hype upon its release, though it has been all but forgotten in recent years — unfortunately, the movie is not the most original take on the 'high tech, low life' concept. Still, that doesn't stop it from being a decent popcorn blockbuster that honors pop culture tropes and characters.
2. Everything Everywhere All at Once
Release Date (Theaters): April 8, 2022
Release Date (Netflix): February 23, 2024
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 94%
Indie filmmaking duo Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert hardly expected their next film to be such a colossal success, but it turned out to be exactly what viewers had been craving. Despite its multiverse setting, the A24 film's surreal mix of genres focused on the drama of one family and their immigrant experience, impressing critics and audiences alike.
1. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Release Date (Theaters): July 15, 2022
Release Date (Netflix): February 24, 2024
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 98%
This movie is pretty innovative, even for A24. As much a surreal mix of genres (including live-action and stop-motion elements, mockumentary and, at its heart, an incredibly sweet drama) as Everything Everywhere All at Once, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On is a family dramedy that tells the touching story of a sweet seashell and his search for identity and family.