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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, Night time on the Museum) and Jonathan Pryce (Recreation of Thrones, The Two Popes). Right here’s what you have to know.
Set to reach on Netflix US starting on July twenty sixth, the film comes from Peter Cattaneo (The Full Monty), primarily based 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 by way of an enormous political upheaval, we comply with 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, enjoying 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 forged is rounded out.
The film is barely confirmed for a Netflix US launch proper now, though different areas will seemingly see the film get added within the coming years by way of numerous offers with distributors. Within the US, the film is coming to Netflix as a part of the primary window take care of Sony Footage, which acquired the film’s US distribution underneath their Sony Footage 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 a licensed recent ranking on RottenTomatoes with 125 opinions 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 recommend the film doesn’t transcend being a mild comedy. Christine Westood praised Coogan’s “note-perfect efficiency” in her assessment, concluding, “His comedian timing and light-weight, 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 allure for which it’s aiming.”
That is the second main Sony Footage film coming to Netflix in July 2025, with Till Daybreak, the horror film primarily based 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, preserve 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?
