George Clooney’s The Midnight Sky released an insane number of Netflix views in its first month

How do you know if a Netflix movie is a success? The streaming service keeps its viewing data private, so we can’t follow a movie like Black Bottom or Ma Rainey’s Mank the way we would follow the progress of a movie that has a traditional cinema opening. Box office figures do not exist for Netflix. But every now and then data pops up on a title that suggests its connection with a wider audience, and that seems to be the case with George Clooney’s latest directorial effort, Midnight sky.