A series of serious titles are set to leave Netflix US in a matter of days so UNILAD RANKED is bringing you the top five actually worth ditching your weekend plans to watch.
Netflix can feel like a gloriously daunting bottomless pit when it comes to trying to choose which gripping series or iconic movie you fancy settling down to.
But what would you do if we told you there are actually several titles which you can wave goodbye to being able to watch on the streaming service and the countdown is very much on to catch them?
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UNILAD RANKED brings you the top five films leaving Netflix on June 1 which you don't want to miss - ordered by their median Rotten Tomatoes score.
Prepare to clear your calendar for a whole day of the weekend if you want to really dedicate yourself to number one...
5) Ted (2012)
Coming in with a Rotten Tomatoes critics score of 69 and audience score of 73 - median of 71 - Ted has remained a feel-good favorite among comedy lovers.
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Written by Seth MacFarlane (Family Guy), Alec Sulkin (also Family Guy) and Wellesley Wild (Dads), the movie is based on a story written by MacFarlane.
Also directed and co-produced by MacFarlane, with Scott Stuber (Identity Thief), John Jacobs (The Boy Next Door) and Jason Clark (Poker Face) producing too.
The 2012 release is the first in what became a franchise, with Mark Walhberg (Flight Risk) and Mila Kunis (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) starring alongside Joel McHale (Community) and Giovanni Ribisi (Sneaky Pete) - MacFarlane voicing Ted, of course.
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The story centers on what happens when a boy named John wishes his teddy bear would come alive and ends up spending the next 30 years navigating life alongside his foul-mouthed furry friend - relationships, work and all.
MacFarlane's feature-length directorial debut was a box office hit, grossing around 10 times its original budget and was the highest grossing comedy of the year.
Within the movie, Ted and John (Wahlberg) have a chat about their reactions to 9/11 - MacFarlane and Wahlberg actually narrowly missing out on being onboard American Airlines Flight 11. Wahlberg booked on the flight but changed his mind last minute and drove to New York instead, and MacFarlane arrived late at the gate and was refused boarding.
One Twitter user wrote: "The TED movie was such a significant film in pop culture because it was one of the best comedy flicks of its time."
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Although, next up is certainly no laughing matter...
4) Cult of Chucky (2017)
For reasons unbeknownst to me - not hating, just terrified of all things horror - Cult of Chucky achieved an impressive Rotten Tomatoes critics score score of 81 alongside an audience score of 62 - a median of 71.5.
The supernatural slasher was written and directed by Don Mancini (Cellar Dweller) and produced by David Kirschner (An American Tail) and Ogden Gavanski (River Wild).
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The seventh instalment of the horrifying Child's Play franchise, the film stars Brad Dourif (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), Fiona Dourif (The Pitt), Alex Vincent and Allison Dawn Doiron.
The movie sees Chucky to return to reign terror on Nica who's been placed in an asylum for the criminally insane, alongside enlisting the help of his wife to get back at other enemies too.
In the movie, Chucky compares one of the other dolls to Hannibal Lecter. The doll also states "Can't believe they cancelled that show" - with two episodes of the third season of 2013's Hannibal actually also written by Mancini.
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While some Redditors criticized the 'design of the doll' and the continuation of the plot as not making 'a whole lot of sense', other social media users were torn when asked to pick between Cult of Chucky and Curse.
"Cult is soo fun but Curse is scarier," one user said.
Thankfully, if you can't hack horrors like me, taking the third spot is a romantic drama.
3) Closer (2004)
Closer scored a Rotten Tomatoes critics score of 67 with a much audience score of 81 - totaling a median of 74.
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Written by Patrick Marber (The Critic), the romantic drama was based on Marber's own award-winning 1997 play with references to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte's 1790 opera Cosi fan tutte.
The film was directed by Mike Nichols (The Graduate) and produced by Nichols alongside Cary Brokaw (The Resident) and John Calley (The Da Vinci Code).
It features an all-star cast of Julia Roberts (Leave the World Behind), Natalie Portman (V for Vendetta), Jude Law (Eden) and Clive Owen (Cleaner) - Owen and Portman winning awards for their roles, alongside a win for the cast as an ensemble.
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The story centers on American stripper Alice (Portman) who moves to London and bumps into a man (Law) on the street - to disastrous consequences, but with quite a sweet outcome. However, will the relationships formed withstand the test of time?
Off the back of their characters' foul use of language, Portman told Interview Magazine she gifted Roberts a necklace which read 'c**t' at the start of filming, Roberts later returning the favor at the end of production by giving Portman a necklace reading 'Lil' c**t'.
As a Twitter user said: "Gotta watch this now." - Hey, I don't make the rules.
And coming in at second place is a heart-wrenching documentary movie.
2) 100 Days with Tata (2021)
The movie doesn't have a Rotten Tomatoes critics score but comes in strong with an audience score of 86.
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A translation of its original title - 100 dias con tata - the documentary sees Miguel Ángel Muñoz document the 100 days he spent in a tiny apartment with his 95-year-old grandma during the coronavirus pandemic.
Tata eventually ends up becoming a social media star as a result of the documentation.
And while the heart-warmer was first released in December 2021, it remains a favorite among Netflix users.
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One Twitter user said: "[Translation] I just saw it in Argentina... a marvel... it excites, moves, entertains, saddens, and touches, all at once. A tribute to older adults in capital letters. Congratulations to both for the gem they have created together."
"Congratulations @miguelamunoz, it’s a documentary with an open heart split in two, that moves you, that transports you, in which you see yourself reflected in the love for grandparents or those special older people in our lives. Thank you for such a touching story, it’s beautiful!" another added.
And last, but by no means least, is one of the most iconic trilogies out there.
1) The Dark Knight trilogy (2005-2012)
Yes, yes, you read that right. Batman fans prepare your tissues because the trilogy is set to be leaving Netflix.
Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008) and The Dark Knight Rises (2012) are about to take flight out of your app.
Granted, you should've watched them all already, but if you haven't binge-watched the Christian Bale-led dramas in a while? Clear your plans.
The first film of the Dark Knight trilogy is a reboot of the Batman film series co-written by Christopher Nolan (Inception) and David S. Goyer (Blade).
Directed by Nolan, the movie was produced by Charles Roven (American Hustle), Emma Thomas (Dunkirk) and Larry Franco (They Live).
It stars Bale (American Psycho) as Bruce Wayne, alongside none other than Michael Caine (Now You See Me) as Alfred. Liam Neeson (Absolution), Katie Holmes, Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour), Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) and Morgan Freeman (Seven) round out the cast.
Heath Ledger (Brokeback Mountain) stars as the Joker in the second of the trilogy - co-written by Nolan and his brother Jonathan this time - with Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Bride) also joining the cast.
And the third movie - once more written by the Nolan brothers - sees Tom Hardy (Havoc) storm in as Bane, Anne Hathaway (The Devil Wears Prada) slink in as Catwoman, alongside Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Killer Heat) as the heroic John Blake. Yep, the trilogy is stacked.
And with Rotten Tomatoes scores of 85 and 94 for the first - median 89.5 - 94 and 94 for the second and 87 and 90 for the third - median 88.5 - well, you can't really argue with that.
As one Twitter user wrote: "12 years ago I was sitting in the Navy Pier IMAX theater watching THE DARK KNIGHT RISES. This film gets a bad rap. It's a wonderful, beautiful, poetic end to Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy. It's one of the most satisfying closing chapters of any trilogy."
And another resolved: "Nolan cooked so hard here. This ending will always give me chills... The Dark Knight Trilogy Is GOAT Tier!"
So what are you doing? Go get watching before they go!
UNILAD RANKED is a weekly series with a new article released every Friday.
Topics: Netflix, Rotten Tomatoes, Film and TV, UNILAD RANKED, Entertainment
Poppy Bilderbeck