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Published Oct 10, 2026, 9:20 AM EDT
Rohan Naahar is a News Writer for Collider. From Francois Ozon to David Fincher, he'll watch anything once.
He has covered everything from Marvel to the Oscars, and Marvel at the Oscars. He also writes obsessively about the box office, charting the many hits and misses that are released weekly, and how their commercial performance shapes public perception. In his time at Collider, he has also helped drive diversity by writing stories about the multiple Indian film industries, with a goal of introducing audiences to a whole new world of cinema.
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If you've lived long enough, you've now seen Ben Affleck find himself in an Armageddon-Deep Impact situation twice in his career. The epic sci-fi movies, which shared the same premise, famously debuted within a few months of each other in 1998. Both movies emerged as box-office hits and have developed strong cult followings. Few would've predicted that the same situation would repeat decades later, this time with Affleck having firmly established himself as a filmmaker. His new movie, Animals, debuted this past Friday, mere months after another movie with the exact same premise. Both films serve as remakes of Akira Kurosawa's psychological drama High and Low.
First out of the gate was Spike Lee's Apple TV original Highest 2 Lowest, starring Denzel Washington and Jeffrey Wright. The movie received critical acclaim, and is now sitting at a "Certified Fresh" 83% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. Affleck's version, however, wasn't as well received. Unsurprisingly, it was able to defy mixed reviews and claim the number-one spot on the Netflix viewership charts immediately after its release on October 9. According to FlixPatrol, it's the new Netflix champion both domestically and worldwide.
Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes Which Netflix Character Would Be Your Best Friend? Dustin · Emily · Wednesday · Gi-hun
Some friends drag you out of the house. Some sit with you on the worst night of your life. Netflix has written both, plus the one who tells you the truth you have been avoiding all week. Answer eight quick questions about how you actually do friendship, and find out which of them was always going to end up in your corner.
🧢Dustin(Stranger Things)
🗼Emily(Emily in Paris)
🕷️Wednesday(Wednesday)
🟢Gi-hun(Squid Game)
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01
How do you usually end up making a new friend? The origin story says a lot about the friendship that follows it.
AWe got loud about the same obsession and never stopped. BThey invited me somewhere before we had properly met. CWe bonded over disliking exactly the same thing. DThey noticed I was struggling and stayed with me.
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02
What is a perfect Saturday with your best friend? Friendship is mostly built out of very ordinary hours.
AA ridiculous plan neither of us should attempt. BSomewhere new, photographed heavily, ending very late. CSomewhere quiet, few people, zero small talk. DSomething simple, and a conversation that actually matters.
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03
You call them at two in the morning. What happens? This is the real test of a friendship, and everybody knows it.
AThey are already putting their shoes on. BThey answer instantly and turn it into a plan. CThey answer and say something unflattering and true. DThey listen for an hour and never check the time.
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04
What do you want from them when you are clearly wrong? The best friendships are the ones that survive being corrected.
ASupport first. We can review the mistake later. BA relentlessly positive reframe of the entire disaster. CThe blunt version. Do not soften it for me. DPatience, and no judgment about how I got here.
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05
What do your friends actually value about you? The friend you attract says something about the friend you are.
AI am all in, always, about everything. BI can turn almost any situation into a good time. CI say the thing nobody else in the room will. DI look after whoever is having the worst day.
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06
You have a falling out. How does it go? How a friendship repairs itself matters more than how it breaks.
ALoudly, briefly, then back to normal by Tuesday. BThey apologise first, enthusiastically, with a gift. CCold silence, then one dry joke that fixes everything. DWe talk until we both understand what actually happened.
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What do you actually need a best friend for? Everybody is missing something. The right friend fills that gap.
ATo make my life bigger than it would be alone. BTo push me out of the house and into my own life. CTo catch me when I start lying to myself. DTo be the person who never gave up on me.
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08
Ten years from now, what keeps the two of you close? Eight questions in, this is the one that decides who you get.
AWe would still drop everything for each other, instantly. BWe still make plans, and we still actually go. CWe still cut through each other's nonsense in one sentence. DThey stood by me once when it cost them something.
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The Group Chat Has Spoken Your Best Friend Is…
Four Netflix characters, four completely different ways of showing up for somebody. This is the one who fits how you actually do friendship, and what having them in your life would be like.
Dustin Henderson
You do not do friendship at half volume, and neither does he. What you want is somebody who says yes to the plan before you have finished describing the plan.
- Dustin is the friend the entire show runs on: loyal past the point of sense, enthusiastic about everything, and incapable of leaving anybody behind.
- You have the same instinct. Your friendships are loud, specific and slightly ridiculous, and they last for decades because of it.
- He is also the one person who would take your strangest interest completely seriously, which is far rarer than it sounds.
- You would have a group chat. It would never once be quiet.
Emily Cooper
You are the friend who makes things happen, and so is she. Together you would be mildly exhausting to everyone around you and completely delighted with yourselves.
- Emily treats an ordinary Tuesday as something that could be turned into an occasion, which is either the best or the worst quality in a friend depending on your energy levels.
- You share her refusal to sit still. Neither of you has ever accepted a night in when something was happening somewhere else.
- She is far more loyal than people give her credit for. She defends her friends loudly, publicly, and occasionally before checking the facts.
- She would post the photo without asking. You would forgive her, because it is a very good photo.
Wednesday Addams
You have no patience for pleasant lies, and she has no ability to tell them. What looks like coldness from the outside is the most reliable friendship on this list.
- Wednesday never says a kind thing she does not mean, which makes the rare ones count for an enormous amount.
- You would rather be told the truth than be made comfortable. She is constitutionally incapable of offering you anything else.
- Underneath all of it she is ferociously protective. She simply refuses to make a performance out of caring.
- Do not expect a birthday message. Do expect her to ruin anyone who wrongs you.
Seong Gi-hun
You look after whoever is having the worst day. So does he. It is the least strategic way to move through the world and the best possible quality in a friend.
- Gi-hun is not the strongest player in Squid Game, or the cleverest. He is the one who keeps choosing to protect somebody else, over and over, at genuine cost to himself.
- You have the same instinct. You notice who is struggling and you stay with them, long after anybody would blame you for leaving.
- He is a flawed friend, and that is part of why it lands. He lets people down, then comes back and tries again, which is more than most manage.
- He would give you his last chance and never once mention that he had done it.
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Ben Affleck Already Has a Netflix Hit to His Name This Year
Animals follows a mayoral candidate who finds himself in a moral quandary when his son is kidnapped and he's blackmailed by menacing criminals. A mid-movie twist turns the narrative on its head and pushes the protagonist into a deeper dilemma. Animals currently holds a 36% score on Rotten Tomatoes, making it the second-lowest-rated movie of Affleck's career as a director, only marginally above the 2016 gangster drama Live By Night, which holds a 34% score. Remarkably, each of Affleck's four other features is "Certified Fresh" on the aggregator website, with scores in the 90% range. His best-reviewed movie remains Argo, which won the Oscar for Best Picture nearly 15 years ago and now holds a 96% score. Earlier this year, Affleck starred alongside Matt Damon in the hit crime-thriller The Rip, which, like Animals, the two also produced. Also featuring Kerry Washington, Steven Yeun, Gillian Anderson, Adriana Paz, and Luis Gerardo Méndez, Animals is streaming on Netflix, where it'll target the 100-million-views benchmark set by The Rip. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
Release Date October 9, 2026
Runtime 106 minutes
