It's only Monday, but The Last House is already three days into its run as Netflix's No. 1 movie — with a 27% from critics, which tells you audiences aren't listening. In the Land of Saints and Sinners is parked right behind it at No. 2, sitting at a genuinely strong 83% on Rotten Tomatoes, and most people still haven't watched it.
On the TV side, My Life with the Walter Boys Season 3 hasn't left the No. 1 spot since it dropped Thursday, and One Hundred Years of Solitude dropped its second batch of episodes on Wednesday, so the Buendía family crowd has something to work through too.
And if you're the type who likes to have something on while you're doing other things, The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare is still No. 2 on the TV chart almost a week after it landed — three episodes, all at once, if true crime is your background noise of choice.
Here's what's actually worth your week.
The Last House
Horror Thriller Film | Dropped August 7
Three days in, and it's still the most-watched movie on the service, so clearly nobody's listening to the critics. Wagner Moura and Greta Lee play a family trapped inside their home by something outside they can't explain, with supplies running low and the walls closing in — literally, according to some of the reviews. It gets a 27% from critics and a 29% from audiences, which is about as close to unanimous disagreement with everyone else watching it as Rotten Tomatoes gets. Judge for yourself. Everyone else already has, and they disagree with each other.
In the Land of Saints and Sinners
Action Thriller Film | New to Netflix
Liam Neeson plays a retired hitman in 1970s rural Ireland who gets pulled back in when an IRA bomber (Kerry Condon) turns up hiding in his village. It's sitting at 83% on Rotten Tomatoes, quietly one of the better-reviewed things Neeson's made in the genre he's been stuck in for a decade, with Ciarán Hinds and Colm Meaney rounding out the cast. It landed on the platform this week and immediately cracked the top two. Most people still haven't seen it, and that's the problem this week is for.
My Life with the Walter Boys Season 3
Teen Romance Series | Dropped August 6
Season 2 left Jackie mid-confession to Cole, with Alex overhearing every word and their dad George collapsing in the same breath. Season 3 opens in that wreckage and complicates it further: Cole eyes a racing opportunity, Alex joins a rodeo team, and Jackie's careful new routine gets upended when a childhood friend flies in from New York. Nikki Rodriguez, Noah LaLonde, and Ashby Gentry are all back, and Netflix renewed it for a fourth season before this one even aired. Four days in, it's still No. 1.
One Hundred Years of Solitude Part 2
Literary Drama Series | Dropped August 5
The second and final part of García Márquez's Nobel-winning saga arrived with seven episodes; the finale doesn't land until August 26, so this is the long middle stretch. Macondo spirals through the banana company's arrival and the family curse tightening around the Buendías, with Marleyda Soto and Claudio Cataño anchoring the sprawling cast. Dense, deliberately paced, and not built for background viewing. Clear your schedule, not just your queue.
The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare
True Crime Documentary Series | New to Netflix
Three episodes, directed by Skye Borgman and Joe Berlinger, walk through the November 2022 murders of four University of Idaho students and the DNA evidence that led investigators to Bryan Kohberger. It leans on bodycam footage and interviews with the victims' families rather than dramatization, and it's currently the most-watched thing on the service. Kohberger filed a petition challenging his conviction this summer, which the series addresses. Heavy, but not gratuitous about it.
The Bombing of Pan Am 103
True Crime Limited Series | Dropped July 30
A six-part dramatization of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing and the investigation that followed, built around the detectives and families chasing an answer for years before anyone was charged. It's a slow-burn procedural rather than a thriller, and it's still charting two weeks after it dropped. If you like your true crime with a British accent and a courtroom at the end of it, this is that.
Five Nights at Freddy's 2
Horror Film | New to Netflix
Josh Hutcherson and Piper Rubio return to deal with the aftermath of the first film's animatronic chaos, with Matthew Lillard back as William Afton. Critics were unkind — 17% on Rotten Tomatoes, with the consensus comparing it to "a malfunctioning animatronic" — but audiences gave it 82%, and it made $239 million globally on a $51 million budget. The math is familiar: critics didn't love it, and nobody cared.
Chief of Station
Action Thriller Film | New to Netflix
Aaron Eckhart plays a CIA station chief who goes looking for revenge after his wife dies in a bombing meant to look like an accident, and it turns out half of Budapest is in on it. Olga Kurylenko and Alex Pettyfer costar. It flopped in theaters in 2024, holds a 63% on Rotten Tomatoes, and is finally finding the audience it should've had then. A Sunday-night watch, two years late.
Terry McMillan Presents: His, Hers & Ours
Romantic Comedy Film | New to Netflix
Taye Diggs and Lesley-Ann Brandt play single parents falling for each other while their teenage kids are already dating, which is the kind of premise that only works if the cast is having fun with it — and they clearly are. No critic score yet, but it's currently one of the most-watched movies on the entire service, so somebody's having a good time. Lifetime-adjacent comfort food, upgraded.
Eighth Grade
Comedy-Drama Film | New to Netflix
If you skipped this when Bo Burnham released it in 2018, you made a mistake, and now you can correct it. Elsie Fisher plays a shy thirteen-year-old posting self-help videos nobody watches while she survives the last week of middle school. Holds a 99% on Rotten Tomatoes. One of the most purely uncomfortable-in-a-good-way coming-of-age movies made this century, quietly sitting in the library again, waiting for you to notice it.
