If your Netflix movie watchlist needs a bit of a jolt this week, I’ve rounded up four picks that have been aimed at very different pleasure centers.
This week you’ll find a top-rated modern crime thriller in Miami where the good guys might be bad, a vintage spy classic, a pulpy gangster romp dripping in British wit, and, speaking of Brits, an absurdist sketch-film from the Beatles of the genre.
The Rip
Recently on the Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast, Matt Damon shared an anecdote about how, after decades of making names for themselves individually, he and best bud Ben Affleck, now in their 50s, have both shed their worries about being pegged as a duo. “It doesn’t have to be a stop the presses [thing],” he said. “It’s like, we just like working together.” And fans of the pair are clearly glad, too, as their new cop thriller The Riphas topped the Netflix Top 10 and has garnered an 80% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Rip is a nasty, gritty, and tense ride that follows Lieutenant Dane Dumars (Damon) and Detective Sergeant J.D. Byrne (Affleck) and their Tactical Narcotics Team in Miami whose job is to target and infiltrate the stash houses of drug cartels to seize, or “rip,” cash, drugs, guns, and other contraband. When one rip nets $20 million of cartel cash, protocol says that they have to count it all on the premises before they can leave, and before the cartel shows up. That’s when things start going sour, as suspicion, greed, and trust issues start to fester among the team, threatening the mission and their lives. Damon and Affleck are, as ever, just gold together.
Goldfinger
If you’re a fan of Ian Fleming’s 60-year joy ride that has been the epic James Bond films, you must be rejoicing as Netflix has, for the first time, collected the entire 25 Eon-produced Bond canon films for streaming, in one place. Whether your generation’s Bond is Connery, Lazenby, Moore, Dalton, Brosnan, or Craig, you can start where you like. I’ve chosen what I think is the best of the Connery era, Goldfinger.
The 1964 masterpiece features the Scottish actor at the height of his powers, and is dripping in swagger, clever Bond-isms, and endlessly quotable moments—”Do you expect me to talk?” he says to the villain Goldfinger (Gert Frobe) as a laser creeps towards Bond’s nether region. “No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!” The plot is as delightfully formulaic as you’d expect: 007, and his license to kill, must thwart the gold-obsessed tycoon’s plot to nuke Fort Knox and the U.S.’s gold supply. The classic Bond film also features some of the franchise’s most memorable characters, including the mute Korean henchman Oddjob (Harold Sakata), and sultry and deadly pilot Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman), who gives Bond a run for his money.
Snatch
I recently watched Guy Ritchie’s gloriously witty and filthy crime-comedy Snatch on a plane, and I’m happy to report that it gets better with every watch, which you should do soon, as it leaves Netflix at the end of February. Released in 2000, it plays like a British Pulp Fiction, with multiple intersecting storylines that you know will inevitably collide in chaos.
Small-time (and shady) boxing promoter Turkish (Jason Statham) and partner Tommy (Stephen Graham, Adolescence, A Thousand Blows) are proper f***ed, as they struggle to contain loose-cannon bare-knuckle Gypsy fighter Mickey (Brad Pitt), whose supposed to “go down in the fourth,” so gangster Brick Top (Alan Ford) can fix the fight. Meanwhile, a baseball-sized diamond has Franky “Four-Fingers” (Benicio del Toro) and big-shot American cousin Avi (Dennis Farina) chasing dogs and a group of small-time bumbling thieves for the prize. It’s all very Benny Hill, but with big guns, big stars, and loads of quotables.
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
The Pythons—John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, and Graham Chapman—are the Beatles of sketch comedy. Period. By the time this ridiculous (in the best way) movie hit theaters in 1983, the legendary British troupe had already tackled the Holy Grail and the messiah, so naturally their take on, well, life, was next. While The Meaning of Life doesn’t actually offer any answers, what it does do is pelt you in the face with absurd, hilarious sketches that prove that, well, no one does.
With the Python’s appearing as all manner of wacky characters—in drag, as fish, in fat suits, as doctors, professors, and even the Grimm Reaper—they attempt to break down the stages and elements of life, from childbirth, fate, and dreams to war, speech, politics, illness, and the afterlife. Between their signature big musical numbers and their shock-comedy set pieces, The Meaning of Life is smart and often vulgar satire of the highest order, in only the way Monty Python can deliver. Watch it with a side of Flying Circus on Tubi, Peacock, or Prime Video, if you have them.
Stack your weekly watch list with these four Netflix movie picks, and be sure to peruse our list of everything coming to Netflix in February 2026 for more ideas.
