15 of the Best Netflix Movies You Never Knew Existed
It’s a movie about a giant troll that wreaks havoc on the way to Oslo. I really don’t know what else you need to know, but there are a lot of ways for that sort of thing to go wrong. Troll mostly avoids the pitfalls, with solid special effects and character work just good enough to keep things from feeling too entirely silly. It’s a European take on the kaiju movie, and a well-made one at that.
Bubble (2022)
There is too much streaming content these days. There, I said it. For all the handwringing about HBO Max canceling this movie or Netflix not giving that series a final season, the onrush of new entertainment still outpaces our ability to take it all in. Your backlog is probably already huge–and those are just the movies you know about. Because thanks to the increasingly fragmented media landscape, there are plenty of them you have never heard of–even if you consider yourself a film buff.
Netflix in particular has proven itself a leader in spending a ton of cash to produce or aquire films and then doing absolutely nothing to let you know they exist, other than dropping them on streaming and leaving them to the whims of the algorithm. Even films with big stars and accomplished directors have seemingly vanished into the cloud, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t worthy of rediscovery. Here are 15 unhearalded “Netflix Originals” released over the last few years that are definitely worth adding to your queue.
