11 movies to check out on Netflix this February

This February, Netflix adds a Best Picture Oscar winner, a Ti West horror movie with a sequel arriving later this year, and Tyler Perry’s latest movie. The surreal Everything Everywhere All At Once won several Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Actress (Michelle Yeoh), Best Supporting Actress (Jamie Lee Curtis), and Best Supporting Actor (Ke Huy Quan). The Ti West movie X starring Mia Goth and Jenna Ortega is something horror fans will want to check out before the sequel MaXXXine drops later this year. There is also Tyler Perry’s new legal thriller Mea Culpa starring Kelly Rowland. Other movies added to Netflix’s streaming library in February 2024 include Code 8: Part II, It, Pacific Rim, Southpaw, and the streaming debut of the Britney Spears flick Crossroads.

Pacific Rim (2013, available February 1)

Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro’s features giant mechas called Jaegers doing battle with Kaiju monsters entering our world through an interdimensional portal at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. The movie starring Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Charlie Day, and Ron Perlman is best viewed on the biggest screen in your home. The A.V. Club’s , “What Pacific Rim lacks in originality it largely makes up for in boyish enthusiasm—an infectious affection for cocky flyboys, titanic mechanical men, and (especially) the mythically colossal villains.”