The Hulu Top Twenty

Here are the 20 most popular movies on Hulu this week.

1. Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag

Last Week's Ranking: NA
Weeks on List: 1
Notes: Wow, this one really came out of nowhere. A 48 minute doc about the military. I suppose the fact that this is a rare (possibly the only?) Imax offering must have something to do with it.

2. Basic Instinct
Last Week's Ranking: NA
Weeks on List: 1
Notes: Sixteen years on, Sharon Stone's hoohoo is still drawing eyeballs in massive numbers. I hope she has that thing insured!

3. The Girl Next Door

Last Week's Ranking: #2
Weeks on List: 4
Notes: The perennial favorite on Hulu shows no signs of slowing down. Emile Hirsch, Elisha Cuthbert, and Josh Duhamel star.

4. The Fifth Element
Last Week's Ranking: 4
Weeks on List: 2
Notes: This scifi actioner is a real workhorse for Hulu, apparently riding on the popularity of Bruce Willis and Milla Jovovich.

5. Crawford
Last Week's Ranking: #5
Weeks on List: 4
Notes: Crawford is Hulu's first movie premiere, but it didn't make the short list of feature-length docs in the Hulu Awards. How will it fare in the rankings now that election fever is fading?

6. The Great Train Robbery

Last Week's Ranking: NA
Weeks on List: 1
Notes: Donald Sutherland and Sean Connery star in their 1979 heyday. Directed by the recently deceased Michael Crichton, based on an adaptation of his novel.

7. The Professional

Last Week's Ranking: NA
Weeks on List: 1
Notes: Natalie Portman debuts her acting chops alongside a career-best performance by Jean Reno.

8. Liar, Liar

Last Week's Ranking: NA
Weeks on List: 1
Notes: Jim Carrey goofs it up in a decent comedy that puts all of his face-stretching talents on display.

9. American Virgin

Last Week's Ranking: NA
Weeks on List: 1
Notes: Bob Hoskins and Mena Suvari star in the lowly-regarded 2000 comedy.

10. Dude, Where's My Car?

Last Week's Ranking: NA
Weeks on List: 2
Notes: Ashton Kutcher and Jennifer Garner team up in this stoner flick just before they became breakout stars.

11. Underworld: Evolution

Last Week's Ranking: NA
Weeks on List: 2
Notes: Kate Beckinsale as a goth-boy's wet dream can't save this dark and dreary action flick from the weight of its futuristic vampire world.

12. Jackass 2.5

Last Week's Ranking: NA
Weeks on List: 1
Notes: The strangely charismatic Johnny Knoxville leads his ragtag crew of misfits through a slew of disgusting stunts.

13. Saints and Soldiers

Last Week's Ranking: NA
Weeks on List: 1
Notes: A Mormon sniper and an atheist medic clash as their platoon struggles to survive behind Nazi lines in this 2005 actioner.

14. Starship Troopers

Last Week's Ranking: #3
Weeks on List: 1
Notes: Paul Verhoeven's futuristic thrill ride gives us a war between humans and giant space alien bugs. Guess which side Neil Patrick Harris is on?

15. National Lampoon's Spring Break

Last Week's Ranking: NA
Weeks on List: 1
Notes: Can you really call a 53 minute comedy a movie? The boobs of the hour belong to Nikki Ziering.

16. Ghostbusters

Last Week's Ranking: NA
Weeks on List: 1
Notes: Bill Murray and co. find their comedic groove as the people you're gonna call. Has completely saturated our culture without ever becoming unhip.

17. Bring It On

Last Week's Ranking: NA
Weeks on List: 2
Notes: Kirsten Dunst shook these pompoms long before kissing Spider Man in the rain, and this turn as a peppy cheerleader spawned a movie franchise. Eliza Dushku and Jesse Bradford costar as siblings.

18. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Last Week's Ranking: NA
Weeks on List: 1
Notes: Russell Crowe revels in his opportunity to make tough choices and bark out orders, but it's the humanistic Paul Bettany who steals every scene.

19. Men In Black

Last Week's Ranking: NA
Weeks on List: 1
Notes: Pairing Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones as government agents who round up aliens must have sounded like crappy gimmickry, but this feature had enough wits and charm to transport us. The sequel? Now that was crappy gimmickry.

20. Requiem for a Dream

Last Week's Ranking: NA
Weeks on List: 1
Notes: Do we give points to movies for excelling at depressing us? I'm not sure. But Ellen Burstyn in a downward spiral is too horrific to turn away from.