10 Best Movies and Shows to Watch on Netflix on New Year’s Day (and Weekend)

But first, what’s new on Netflix?

A room with a view — of a cutthroat landscape. Selling the City, a new real-estate docu-soap from the creators of Selling Sunset, is here to draw you into the drama of luxury real estate in New York. Looking for a different listing? Defy mortality with Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever. The new documentary by Chris Smith (Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened) examines the controversial practices one man has adopted in his quest to stay young forever. Don’t want to sip from that fountain of youth? Try a different kind of time warp with a spin of Interstellar, Christopher Nolan’s 2014 sci-fi epic about a group of scientists (led by Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway) who travel through a wormhole. 

If you have just a night … 

Listen to your gut. If you’ve set a resolution to change your eating habits in 2025, you can inform your approach to nutrition with a stream of Hack Your Health: The Secrets of Your Gut. Anjali Nayar’s 2024 documentary puts the spotlight on the gut microbiome, with input from a panel of experts about the importance of maintaining a diverse diet and how gut health impacts our bodies on a greater scale. 

If you have a whole day … 

Start over. New beginnings can be difficult, but you can ease into this one with a three-movie mini-marathon that honors the courage it takes to turn the page. Start with a dramedy that recognizes that beginnings come out of endings: In Dan Levy’s directorial debut, 2023’s Good Grief, he stars as a man mourning his late husband with the support of his two best friends (Ruth Negga and Himesh Patel). Follow it with a romantic drama from last year, Justin Baldoni’s It Ends With Us, an adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestseller about breaking toxic cycles and patterns; Blake Lively anchors a tortured love triangle opposite Baldoni and Brandon Sklenar. Finally, lighten things up with a comedy about questioning everything you’ve always known and stepping into a future that breaks from the past. That’s right! Greta Gerwig’s 2023 smash Barbie, starring Margot Robbie as the beloved fashion doll and Ryan Gosling as (just) Ken, is here to guide you to your new start!  

If you have the entire weekend … 

Do more than a makeover. Queer Eye’s Fab Five specialize in delivering fresh starts for deserving heroes, and you can sample all nine seasons (the latest of which dropped in December) to inspire your own new-year make-better. Take some tips from food expert Antoni Porowski, fashion expert Tan France, culture and lifestyle expert Karamo Brown, grooming expert Jonathan Van Ness, and design experts Bobby Berk (Seasons 1–8) and Jeremiah Brent (Season 9) — and step into 2025 with confidence. 

Don’t forget, you have one last chance … 

… to cast a spell. You have less than two weeks to make your way through Sera Gamble and John McNamara’s The Magicians, which ran from 2015 to 2020. Based on Lev Grossman’s trilogy of novels, the series revolves around a grad student (Jason Ralph) who enrolls in a school of magic, where he discovers that the curriculum is more dangerous than he ever guessed. Stream all five seasons before it disappears.  

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