As we enter 2025, the future of the box office looks as uncertain as ever, but one thing we know for sure: We are all destined (or doomed, you choose) to be on Netflix in the years to come. to scroll the surface. Over the past few weeks, amidst the usual festive fare, the streamer has offered up its usual cavalcade of reasonably good “content” that left our collective cortex as quickly as it came in. Netflixers sent Megan Fox’s sci-fi thriller “Subservience” to the top of the streamer charts over the holidays, while Keira Knightley-led spy thriller series “Black Doves” also triumphed in the Netflix rankings.

But Netflix’s 2024 hasn’t been all about slickly produced but somehow instantly forgettable films and TV shows. Among the top 10 Netflix movies of 2024, we had some truly standout films, including Aaron Pierre’s excellent Rebel Ridge and the poignant breakout family drama His Three Daughters.

Still, the media onslaught will undoubtedly continue in 2025. But as we prepare for the deluge of scrap to begin again, the year is at least off to a somewhat decent start. Streaming audiences even gave us some hope by sending a modern sci-fi classic to the top of the Netflix charts in the form of perhaps Christopher Nolan’s best film: Interstellar.

In 2024, Christopher Nolan followed up what had already been a successful year for him in 2023 with even more success. After directing the first box office blockbuster in 20 years to win an Oscar for Best Picture the year before with “Oppenheimer,” Nolan re-released his 2014 work “Interstellar” in theaters in 2024, ten years after its original release a box office hit was debuted. Now the film has found its way to Netflix, where it has once again had great success.

“Interstellar” arrived on Netflix on January 1, 2024, and although it is already a well-known sci-fi epic that has been part of the cultural conversation for a decade, it immediately shot up the most-watched charts. The film debuted at number three on the most-watched film chart in the US on January 2, according to FlixPatrol, a website that tracks streaming viewership data across various platforms. He has remained in third place since January 3rd, but could easily reach number one next week. To achieve that, however, it will have to compete with exactly the kind of mediocre streaming films that seem designed to be anti-Nolan entertainment.

If we take an optimistic approach, the Netflix success of “Interstellar” at least suggests that there is hope for the streaming sphere in 2025. While the streaming popularity of something like the Michael Fassbender flop The Snowman seemed to be closing in on Netflixers in 2023, Christopher Nolan continues his mission to prove that audiences are still eager for quality cinematic offerings, even in the streaming age is. With that in mind, it will be interesting to see how Interstellar fares against the Die Hard 2-style holiday action thriller Carry-On, which currently sits at the top spot in the US’s most-watched charts.

The action film starring Taron Egerton is exactly what Netflix has become known for. It’s an entertaining watch that, on the whole, doesn’t do much to prevent it from completely sinking under the hail of future “content” and ultimately consigning itself to the crowded annals of streaming history. So it will be interesting to see whether “Interstellar” can trump “Carry-On” or whether the streaming film remains the king of the charts. Nolan’s sci-fi epic also has to beat Ron Howard’s 2015 adventure drama “In the Heart of the Sea,” which is currently at number two in the US.

Nolan, who will soon bring a Greek epic to the big screen with his 2026 project The Odyssey, probably won’t care too much about Interstellar hitting the charts on Netflix. The director is known to have a fondness for physical media and has spoken extensively about the dangers of streaming-only media. Still, it’s impressive to see the film rack up multiple wins ten years after its initial release.