Matt Damon’s 85% Rotten Tomatoes Thriller Is Coming to Netflix
Matt Damon’s acclaimed psychological thriller The Talented Mr. Ripley, boasting an 85% Rotten Tomatoes score, lands on Netflix in mid-December, sharpening the streamer’s year-end lineup.
Netflix is slipping a certified 90s banger into the queue just as the year winds down. Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley hits the service on December 13, 2025, and yes, that is the Matt Damon/Jude Law/Gwyneth Paltrow one. It sits at 85% on Rotten Tomatoes and fits neatly into Netflix's late-year push of classy psychological dramas.
What you are getting
Based on Patricia Highsmith's 1955 novel, the film follows Tom Ripley (Matt Damon), a low-rent striver who gets sent from New York to Italy to coax rich kid Dickie Greenleaf (Jude Law) back home. Tom falls hard for Dickie's sun-soaked lifestyle, makes a series of truly terrible decisions, and eventually kills him and slips into his identity. Gwyneth Paltrow plays Marge Sherwood, Dickie's girlfriend who starts putting the pieces together.
It is a polished, unnerving psychological thriller about deception, ambition, and wearing someone else's life like a tailored suit. Also worth noting: five Academy Award nominations. One of those movies that gets under your skin and lingers.
Why Netflix is dropping it now
December 2025 is one of those busy months for Netflix where originals, holiday comfort watches, international series, and big-ticket licensed titles all pile up at once. Ripley slides in right between a marquee sequel and a mega-hit series finale stretch.
December 2025 snapshot
- The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) - streaming December 13
- Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery - streaming December 12
- Stranger Things Season 5 Volume 2 - streaming December 25
- Emily in Paris Season 5 - returns in December
- Godzilla (2014) - licensed addition
- The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) - licensed addition
- Titanic (1997) - licensed addition
- Mean Girls (2004) and Mean Girls (2024) - licensed additions
- New Netflix originals also landing: Jay Kelly, Goodbye June, The Abandons
If you want more Ripley
This is not the only take on Highsmith's slippery antihero. There's the 1960 French film Purple Noon, which covers the same book with a different vibe. Netflix also put out Ripley in 2024, a black-and-white series led by Andrew Scott. And because theater folks love a morally dubious charmer, the Sydney Theatre Company has a stage adaptation set for 2025.
Bottom line: if you somehow missed The Talented Mr. Ripley, or just want to revisit its sun-drenched menace, mid-December is your moment before holiday chaos and Hawkins take over the homepage.