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These Are Our Favorite Movies and Series on Netflix This Year So Far

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JANUARY 25: Laila Lockhart Kraner (R) and Gabby attend the launch of Gabby's Dollhouse MEOWseum Discovery Days at The Brooklyn Children's Museum on January 25, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for DreamWorks Gabby's Dollhouse )
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JANUARY 25: Laila Lockhart Kraner (R) and Gabby attend the launch of Gabby’s Dollhouse MEOWseum Discovery Days at The Brooklyn Children’s Museum on January 25, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for DreamWorks Gabby’s Dollhouse )

By Killoran Cifuentes

We’ve gathered together some of our favorite movies and series streaming on Netflix this year. Here are your go-to titles for different movies and series that will be perfect for you and your family to enjoy! There are ones with your little ones in mind, such as GABBY’S DOLLHOUSE, and others that will entertain everyone in your crew, like LEO or PLANKTON: THE MOVIE.

1

DESPICABLE ME 4

Family Animated/Comedy/Spy Movie · PG

DESPICABLE ME 4 opens with Gru and three minions traveling to Gru’s old School of Villainy to capture Maxime Le Mal. With help from the Anti-Villain League, Gru captures Maxime, who’s transformed himself into a human-sized cockroach with superpowers. However, Maxime escapes…

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2

LEO

Family Animated/Comedy · (Not yet rated)

LEO is Adam Sandler’s latest movie on Netflix. LEO is a clean, clever, wonderful animated musical comedy for all ages. It follows a talking lizard named Leo. Leo has spent his entire 74 years of life in a glass-encased terrarium at a…

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3

YES DAY

Family Comedy · PG

YES DAY is a family comedy streaming on Netflix about parents who say yes to their children for one whole day. Allison and Carlos find themselves saying no constantly to their three children. When they find out about a day where parents…

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4

HOT WHEELS: LET’S RACE Season 3

Family Children/Adventure · (Not yet rated)

The first three episodes of Season 3 of HOT WHEELS: LET'S RACE, streaming on Netflix, is an action-packed animated series focusing on the Hot Wheels team as they play fair to beat the antagonist, Cruise, and her dad, Professor Rearview. In Episode…

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5

GABBY’S DOLLHOUSE: Episodes 11.1 to 11.3

Family Animated/Fantasy · (Not yet rated)

GABBY’S DOLLHOUSE is a children’s series on Netflix about a young teenage girl named Gabby who loves cats. Each episode, she receives a delivery from the “Meow-Meow Mailbox,” and then shrinks down to dollhouse size in animated form. Gabby then interacts with…

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6

SONIC PRIME: Season Three

Discernment Animated/Science Fiction · (Not yet rated)

Season Three of SONIC PRIME on Netflix follows the fallout between Sonic and his seeming friend, Nine. Sonic and his alter ego, Shadow, set out to frustrate Nine’s dystopian plans. Nine wants steals the reassembled Paradox Prism, a device that bends reality.…

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7

CHICKEN RUN: DAWN OF THE NUGGET

Family Animated/Comedy · PG

Streaming on Netflix, CHICKEN RUN: DAWN OF THE NUGGET opens with memories of the first animated CHICKEN RUN movie, where the chickens escaped to an island where they build a village that looks like a Hobbit paradise. Cut to Rocky the Rooster…

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8

MINIONS

Caution Comedy · PG

MINIONS is not a family-friendly movie. When the minions are left without a master, Kevin decides to set out with the help of Bob and Stewart to find an evil villain to serve. They travel great distances until they see an advertisement…

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9

PLANKTON: THE MOVIE

Family Animated/Comedy/Fantasy · (Not yet rated)

PLANKTON: THE MOVIE is an animated comedy on Netflix. SpongeBob SquarePants and his longtime enemy, Plankton, team up to save the world after Plankton unintentionally sets his robot wife, Karen, on a destructive tirade. As they run from Karen’s destructive pursuit of…

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WOODY WOODPECKER GOES TO CAMP

Family Comedy · (Not yet rated)

WOODY WOODPECKER GOES TO CAMP starts with Woody Woodpecker causing mayhem in the forest where he lives. The other animals banish Woody until he learns teamwork. Sadly, Woody leaves his forest home but soon runs across a summer camp called Camp Woo…

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