3 Netflix Hidden Gems With Stellar Rotten Tomatoes Scores You Need to Watch Now (March 2026)
Netflix’s March lineup is stacked with Rotten Tomatoes winners, most landing in the high 80s—a standout run when 90 percent is rare. The Watch With Us team spotlights three underrated gems to stream now.
Netflix loaded up March with a surprising number of Certified Fresh titles. Most of the new arrivals live in the high-80s on Rotten Tomatoes, and a few crack that elusive 90-percent tier. I pulled three under-the-radar picks now streaming that are absolutely worth a watch: a brutal border thriller, a Swedish character study that sneaks up on you, and an animated juggernaut that had no right being this good.
Sicario ( 2015) — 91% on Rotten Tomatoes
Here is a fun film- nerd wrinkle: before they each turned into brand names, Yellowstone co-creator Taylor Sheridan wrote this, and Dune director Denis Villeneuve made it. Eleven years later, their team-up still hits like a gut punch.
Emily Blunt plays FBI Special Agent Kate Macer, thrown into the deep end of the drug war after a deadly incident takes out members of her team. She signs on with CIA officer Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) for a cross-agency task force targeting cartel player Manuel Diaz (Bernardo Saracino). Joining them is Alejandro Gillick (Benicio del Toro), a quiet, lethal, CIA-trained operative with his own score to settle.
The catch: Matt and Alejandro are not exactly honest with Kate about the task force’s true objective. As the operation spills into Mexico, the mission’s lines blur fast, and Kate gets dragged into a moral sinkhole she cannot control.
Sicario is streaming on Netflix.
A Man Called Ove (2015) — 91% on Rotten Tomatoes
If you saw Tom Hanks in A Man Called Otto, this is the Swedish original it was based on. Rolf Lassgard plays Ove, a cranky widower who has pretty much checked out after losing his wife, Sonja (Ida Engvoll), and falling out with his longtime friend Rune (Börje Lundberg).
Ove’s plan to end things gets interrupted by new neighbor Parvaneh (Bahar Pars), an Iranian immigrant who refuses to let him stay isolated. She and her family keep knocking on his door for small favors because they actually need his help — and, in the process, give him the human connection he has been missing. Ove may not have a lot of good years left, but his presence ends up reshaping the lives around him in ways he never expected.
A Man Called Ove is streaming on Netflix.
The Lego Movie ( 2014) — 96% on Rotten Tomatoes
On paper, this should have been a feature-length toy commercial. Instead, it became a box-office smash, a critics’ darling, and one of the most successful animated films of the last two decades.
Chris Pratt voices Emmet Brickowski, the most aggressively average Lego construction worker imaginable. Emmet stumbles into an adventure with Wyldstyle (Elizabeth Banks), the wizard Vitruvius (Morgan Freeman), and Lego Batman ( Will Arnett ), who suspect he might be the Special — the one person who can stop Lord Business (Will Ferrell) from freezing the Lego universe forever. The movie is so relentlessly charming it feels like a magic trick, and the cameos go well beyond Batman.
The Lego Movie is streaming on Netflix.