Christmas is a mere few weeks away, and if you think I'm doing anything side from sitting on my couch and watching more Netflix movies, you'd be mistaken.
I can hear you saying 'But Jasmine, you make your living by watching Netflix... why would you spend your precious free time doing more of the same?' The answer is simple, once you see the new film line-up for December 2025.
Jay Kelly
RT score: 80%
Director: Noah Baumbach
Runtime: 132 minutes
Age rating: R
Arriving on: December 5
Double checking Jay Kelly's Rotten Tomatoes score for this piece has left me in shock. 80% feels far too low for what might be one of George Clooney's best leading performances of his career.
In essence, this is a thinly veiled tribute to Clooney told through the eyes of a fictional actor, but he's probably the only person who could pull this off. Yes, it's all incredibly self-indulgent, but it needs to be. Frankly, I think it's one of the most emotionally challenging films of 2025.
You cannot help but question yourself and every decision you've made in your life thus far while watching this, and that's a good thing. It's as beautiful as it is frustrating, with Kelly being completely stubborn in his ignorance until the very end. If you're from the UK, you've got the added bonus of seeing the most random nationally-known faces in one train carriage scene (e.g. Jacqueline from Benidorm).
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
RT score: 95%
Director: Rian Johnson
Runtime: 140 minutes
Age rating: R
Arriving on: December 12
Knives Out 3 is easily the best of the bunch so far, and I'm itching to watch it all over again this Christmas. Unlike the previous two movies, Wake Up Dead Man feels like the best parody of a classic crime caper imaginable.
Once again we have a stacked A-List cast (Glenn Close, Kerry Washington and Josh O'Connor, to name a few) and Daniel Craig's Benoit Blanc with a chic new hairstyle. However, the actual mystery at its core takes a different turn, embodying Jesus' resurrection over the Easter weekend.
The laughs hit, emotions run deep and I guarantee you won't be able to guess whodunnit before the ending. It's Rian Johnson's best work so far in every conceivable way (visually and narratively), and more importantly, it's a blast.
Cover-Up
RT score: 100%
Director: Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus
Runtime: 117 minutes
Age rating: R
Arriving on: December 26
While it's not exactly a festive watch, Cover-Up is probably the most important film you can stream this December. A one-off documentary, we follow the life and works of reporter Seymour Hersh as he challenged the US government and uncovered some of the biggest scandals in the country's history.
Hersh exposed the My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War, the Abu Grahib prisoner abuse in 2004, and became the number-one enemy to President Nixon's government for his work on the Watergate scandal.
Hersh remains to be unflinchingly honest, even though it's clear he's had to be talked around to doing the documentary in the first place. Thanks to his agreement, we get the stark reminder we need to not believe everything we see at face-value, alongside the importance of painstaking investigative journalism.
All new Netflix movies in November 2025
Arriving on December 1
Troll 2
A League of Their Own
As Good as It Gets
Bad Teacher
Big Momma’s House
Big Momma’s House 2
Brightburn
Burlesque
Cheaper by the Dozen
Cheaper by the Dozen 2
Christmas Break-In
Downton Abbey
Godzilla
Hollow Man
Joy for Christmas
Kung Fu Panda
Kung Fu Panda 2
Kung Fu Panda 3
Little Women
Pulp Fiction
Stripes
The Ugly Truth
What Lies Beneath
The Wolf of Wall Street
Zero Dark Thirty
Arriving on December 3
My Secret Santa
The Northman
Arriving on December 4
A Lot Like Christmas
Forrest Gump
Fugue State 1986
I Wish You Had Told Me
Lali: Time to Step Up
Mean Girls (2004)
Mean Girls (2024)
Arriving on December 5
Jay Kelly
Love and Wine
The Making of Jay Kelly
The New Yorker at 100
The Night My Dad Saved Christmas 2
The Price of Confession
Arriving on December 7
Babylon
Cast Away
Arriving on December 9
Badly in Love
Masaka Kids, A Rhythm Within
Arriving on December 11
The Fakenapping
Had I Not Seen the Sun: Part 2
Lost in the Spotlight
Man Vs Baby
The Town
Arriving on December 12
City of Shadows
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Arriving on December 13
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Arriving on December 14
PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie
Arriving on December 15
A Cowboy Christmas Romance
Christmas at the Chalet
The Christmas Classic
Christmas on the Alpaca Farm
Arriving on December 17
Murder in Monaco
What’s In The Box?
Arriving on December 19
A Time For Bravery
Breakdown: 1975
The Great Flood
Jake vs. Joshua: Judgment Day
Arriving on December 22
Elway
Sicily Express
Arriving on December 23
Eden
Arriving on December 24
Downton Abbey: A New Era
Goodbye June
Tom Segura: Teacher
Arriving on December 26
Cover-up
Arriving on December 30
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story
Arriving on December 31
Sleeping with Other People
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