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A quaint British film has simply been introduced to be becoming a member of the Netflix library on the finish of July 2025. We’re referring to the comparatively not too long ago launched comedy-drama The Penguin Classes, headlined by Steve Coogan (Alan Partridge, Evening on the Museum) and Jonathan Pryce (Sport of Thrones, The Two Popes). Right here’s what you want to know.
Set to reach on Netflix US starting on July twenty sixth, the film comes from Peter Cattaneo (The Full Monty), based mostly on a screenplay by Jeff Pope, which adapts the true story of Tom Michell’s memoir of the identical title that was first printed a decade in the past in 2015. Set in Argentina within the Seventies, when the nation was going via an enormous political upheaval, we observe an English trainer who finds consolation and that means in rescuing a stranded penguin.
British comic and actor Steve Coogan is the star of the film, taking part in the function of Tom Michell. Nonetheless, past being joined by Jonathon Pryce, Vivian El Jaber, Björn Gustafsson, David Herrero, Alfonsina Carrocio, Micaela Breque, and Aimar Miranda, the solid is rounded out.
The film is barely confirmed for a Netflix US launch proper now, though different areas will doubtless see the film get added within the coming years via varied offers with distributors. Within the US, the film is coming to Netflix as a part of the primary window cope with Sony Photos, which acquired the film’s US distribution underneath their Sony Photos Classics label.
The Penguin Classes will stream on Netflix within the US for 18 months earlier than shifting to Hulu.
As talked about within the title, the film does maintain an authorized recent ranking on RottenTomatoes with 125 critiques giving it a 77% rating. Most criticism got here from the British press, if something. Many retailers praised the film’s heart-warming moments, whereas others counsel the film doesn’t transcend being a mild comedy. Christine Westood praised Coogan’s “note-perfect efficiency” in her evaluate, concluding, “His comedian timing and lightweight, sustained pitch are glorious as all the time.” On the opposite finish of the spectrum, David Jenkins for Little White Lies said, “The movie by no means hits the heights of attraction for which it’s aiming.”
That is the second main Sony Photos film coming to Netflix in July 2025, with Till Daybreak, the horror film based mostly on the hit online game, additionally confirmed to be arriving imminently. For extra on all the things nonetheless to come back to Netflix all through the rest of the month, hold it locked right here on What’s on Netflix.
Will you take a look at The Penguin Classes when it touches down on Netflix US?