7 Netflix Movies of 2023 With the Highest Rotten Tomatoes Score, Ranked

7. Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 81%

It's been more than TWENTY YEARS since the kooky claymation feature Chicken Run surprised audiences with its quaint English charm. What made the creators wait so long for a sequel is a mystery (any real chicken would be long dead by now), but Dawn of the Nugget looks like a lot of fun – and critics agree.

Since escaping certain death on the farm, Ginger and Rocky have settled into their new island home and started a family. But their young chick Molly grows up eager for adventure, and when she escapes to the mainland her parents find themselves in the surprising position of having to break into a chicken farm instead of breaking out.

6. Maestro

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 80%

You may have heard of the firestorm over Maestro, which hired two non-Jews to play Leonard Bernstein and his wife, and then had Bradley Cooper wear a false nose. However, Bernstein's family has been staunch in their defense of Cooper and the film (members of the family consulted on the production), and critics have been in love with the romantic drama since it premiered.

Maestro follows legendary American conductor Leonard Bernstein and his complicated relationship with his wife Felicia. The movie has been nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

5. Fair Play

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 85%

Emily (Bridgerton 's Phoebe Dynevor) and Luke (Solo's Alden Ehrenreich) work at the same high-stakes, cutthroat hedge fund. They're newly engaged, but office politics mean that they're keeping their relationship under wraps.

When one of their supervisors cracks under the strain and Emily is promoted over Luke, his jealousy and the demands of her new position push the couple to a breaking point. This tense, erotic psychological thriller was written and directed by Chloe Domont.

4. Ballerina

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 91%

It's been a long time since revenge was this satisfying – or stylish.

Ok-ju (Jeon Jong-seo) is a former bodyguard grieving the loss of her best friend. When she finds a suicide note that reads 'Please get revenge for me', Ok-ju vows vengeance on the sex traffickers who destroyed her friend's life. She tracks them down one by one and extracts violent payback. The promised revenge is bloody, gorgeously choreographed, and oh so satisfying.

3. May December

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 90%

Twenty years ago, 36-year-old Gracie (Julianne Moore) was arrested for having a sexual relationship with Joe (Charles Melton), an underage boy. Now Gracie and Joe are married with three kids, and the scandal has died away.

When an actress (Natalie Portman ) plans to play Gracie in a movie, she asks permission to visit the family and do research. What follows is a layered, complicated look at manipulation, exploitation, and the narratives we build around each other.

2. Nimona

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 94%

Based on the hit graphic novel by ND Stevenson, Nimona is the sort of animated story that sounds a bit insane when you try to boil it down to a couple of sentences. But here goes:

In a futuristic (but medieval) fantasy world, a teenage girl with the power to shapeshift into pink animals decides to be the sidekick of the 'evil' knight Ballister Boldheart. It turns out that Boldheart was framed for his crimes, and he and Nimona team up to prove his innocence – while he tries to prevent her from causing constant, gleeful destruction.

1. They Cloned Tyrone

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 95%

Drug dealer Fontaine (​​John Boyega) is killed in a drive-by shooting at the beginning of They Cloned Tyrone. But that's not the end of his journey: he soon finds himself in a Groundhog Day-esque time loop driven by a secret government conspiracy. Fontaine joins forces with a pimp named Slick Charles (Jamie Foxx) and his employee Yo-Yo (Teyonah Parris) for a raucous, twisted take on the 'gang of friends solves mystery' genre.