Netflix is no stranger to churning out thrillers year-round, and 2024 delivered plenty of standouts. Movies like “Rebel Ridge,” “Carry-On,” and “It’s What’s Inside” were quick to impress me, and all secured spots in the streamer’s top 10 upon release last year.
Now, 2025 has another strong contender: the new crime thriller “RIP.”
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are reuniting for this upcoming movie from writer-director Joe Carnahan. Given their Oscar win for co-writing “Good Will Hunting” and their individual projects since, I have high expectations for this pairing. The real-life friends have shared the screen in a bunch of movies over the years, like “Good Will Hunting”, “Dogma” and, more recently, “Air”, this latest collaboration already has my attention.
Inspired by a real-life experience of one of Carnahan’s friends, “RIP” follows a team of Miami cops who stumble upon a hidden fortune in an abandoned stash house. But as
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