The streaming pattern referred to as “newstalgia” continues, with forgotten TV exhibits and films being introduced to totally different audiences as in the event that they have been new. Netflix has been partaking on this pattern for fairly a while now. Actually, it would simply be the king of newstalgia, because the streamer continues to churn up forgotten initiatives and provides them a streaming-age renaissance.
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In October 2024, for instance, a forgotten Jason Statham actioner dominated the Netflix charts, just for one more bygone Statham heist flick to prime the Tubi rankings in April 2025. It isn’t simply gruff British motion stars that profit from this phenomenon, both. The forgotten Dwayne Johnson motion thriller “Sooner” was reintroduced to audiences by way of Netflix in December 2024, whereas a forgotten Chris Hemsworth flop grew to become an immediate Netflix success in January 2025. Now, it is Mark Wahlberg’s flip.
To be honest, Wahlberg has benefitted from the newstalgia pattern as a lot as anybody, with a number of of his neglected films having beforehand discovered their means onto Netflix’s most-watched charts in 2024 alone. Now, although, we’re being handled to one of many actor’s extra lighthearted efforts within the type of “Prompt Household,” a 2018 household comedy that has managed to allure Netflix subscribers sufficient to make it to the highest of the streamer’s rankings.
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Prompt Household has discovered a house on the Netflix charts
“Prompt Household” stars Mark Wahlberg as Pete Wagner and Rose Byrne as his spouse, Ellie. The couple determine to develop into foster dad and mom and undertake three siblings, starting from ages 6 to fifteen. However whereas the pair handle to do effectively sufficient with the 2 youngest youngsters, 10-year-old Juan (Gustavo Escobar) and 6-year-old Lita Isabella (Julianna Gamiz), rebellious teen Elizabeth (Isabela Merced) proves far more tough, placing Pete and Ellie via a parenting baptism of fireplace.
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This sort of healthful fare appears to have been successful with Netflixers, because the movie is dominating the streamer’s charts. “Prompt Household” reached the platform on Might 16, 2025, and, in accordance with FlixPatrol, a website that tracks streaming viewership numbers throughout the numerous platforms, it has develop into a, effectively, immediate success in the US. The film debuted within the quantity two spot on Might 17, staying there till it hit primary on Might 19. “Prompt Household” then remained within the prime spot for one more day earlier than falling to quantity two once more on the time of writing.
That each one provides as much as a pleasant little newstalgia win for Netflix, which has but once more confirmed that films do not even essentially must be that outdated to have a profitable reintroduction to streaming audiences. Whether or not “Prompt Household” can keep its place close to the highest of the charts stays to be seen, because it has been usurped from the primary place by the documentary “Untold: The Fall of Favre” and is barely simply forward of the 2025 Vince Vaughn comedy “Nonnas,” which has been ruling the Netflix charts for a while.
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Is Prompt Household value watching?
“Prompt Household” may not have develop into the trendy household comedy traditional the filmmakers had hoped, but it surely fared fairly effectively upon its 2018 debut. Not solely did it make $119.7 million on a $48 million price range, however critics have been additionally received over by Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne, whose display chemistry evidently impressed a number of reviewers. Over on Rotten Tomatoes, the movie bears a good 82% critic rating, with even the “prime critics” giving Wahlberg’s household outing first rate marks.
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Robbie Collin of the Day by day Telegraph thought “Prompt Household” was “boosted immeasurably by Byrne and Wahlberg, who make a snappily interesting comedian pair and bounce off one another effectively within the movie’s many fraught parenting moments.” Bilge Ebiri of New York Journal/Vulture was a tad much less complimentary, although nonetheless principally optimistic, writing, “When it really works, it is genuinely humorous and shifting. However when it would not, hoo boy, it is atrocious. But it surely principally works. I feel. Perhaps.” Not all people was optimistic, although. Nigel Andrews of the Monetary Occasions concluded that whereas the movie “begins bearably” it “turns into Hollywoodish” earlier than ending up “as diabetes-grade comedy schmaltz.”
Nonetheless, for those who’re contemplating becoming a member of the Netflix crowds on this rewatch, the movie did make quantity 12 on /Movie’s checklist of the most effective Mark Wahlberg films.
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