The Life List
The Life List has been a hit with Netflix audiences, including, anecdotally, my wife, who has watched it twice already. The Life List has stayed at #1 almost since its release on March 28, but after a week, it has finally been knocked down by a new movie.
That would be something I recommended this past week, One of Them Days, the comedy starring SZA and Keke Palmer, which is the best comedy of 2025 so far, boasting a 93% and 90% critic and audience score respectively. That’s very hard to do. Here’s the synopsis:
“Best friends and roommates Dreux (Keke Palmer) and Alyssa (SZA) are about to have One of Them Days. When they discover Alyssa’s boyfriend has blown their rent money, the duo finds themselves going to extremes in a comical race against the clock to avoid eviction and keep their friendship intact.”
Top 10
The film was added to Netflix a little while ago, but has been climbing up the charts the last few days to hit #1. This is not a Netflix original, this is a film that was out in January of this year and Netflix nabbed it through licensing, which I would argue is the best in the business with the kind of things it’s managed to grab.
The Life List, which stars Carry-On and Purple Hearts’ Sofia Carson, has a less good 47% critic score, but a solid 73% audience score, that gap explaining why it’s done so well on the service. This was adapted from a novel by Lori Nelson Spielman. I do not believe that there are other books in this series specifically, but Spielman has a number of other titles that may not be ripe for adaptation.
As for the rest of the list, it’s more about what is not on it, which would be The Electric State, now dropped out of the top 10 entirely, and it does not seem like it is going to come close to cracking the all-time top 10 list, despite its massive $320 million cost, Netflix’s most-expensive ever. This week, it barely had a third of the views of The Life List.
Like I’ve said before, I highly recommend One of Them Days to everyone, as it’s a hilarious movie no matter your background, and I’m glad to see it doing well here.
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