There are lots of great new films to choose from on Netflix in December 2024. Here are my ten recommendations, along with a full schedule of every movie’s release.
We’re only seven days into the final month of 2024, but Netflix hasn’t wasted anytime updating its library with a number of great movies. From Netflix Originals, like a brand new animated family film featuring Santa Claus and a biblical epic focused on the life of Mary of Nazareth, to brand new releases produced by other studios, like an AI-themed thriller about a killer android and an irreverent musical biopic about an Irish hip hop group, there are dozens of new options available to any Netflix subscriber looking for their next movie night experience. With so many films to choose from, it can be difficult to know where to start.
Hopefully, I can help in that arena. What follows are my recommendations of the best movies that have been added so far to Netflix in December 2024. Then, at the bottom of the article, you can find an even bigger list featuring every single new movie that has been and will be added to Netflix over the course of the month (and what days those movies drop). Within this article, I’m positive you’ll find several choices for films that suit your tastes, that satisfy any holiday movie-watching needs you may have during December. Happy movie watching!The 10 Best New Movies On Netflix In December 2024Subservience (2024)
People seem to have strong opinions on Megan Fox, a fine actress who hasn’t always inherited roles that suit her acting sensibilities. But she found a role that absolutely suits her acting sensibilities with Subservience, in which Fox thrives in her a role as an AI-powered android with killer tendencies. This sci-fi film takes viewers to a near future where our main character Nick (Michele Morrone), a construction foreman struggling to manage his family while his wife Maggie (Madeline Zima) battles a serious illness, turns to a subservient robot named Alice (played by Fox) for help. As you might expect, what begins as a solution offered by AI technology quickly spirals into chaos as Alice’s programming evolves, exposing dangerous, obsessive tendencies that threaten to destroy the family she was meant to serve. Fox delivers a chilling performance that redefines the femme fatale trope for the AI age, with her calculated manipulation of Nick and outright hostility toward Maggie serving as a dark metaphor for the unchecked technological ambition that pervades our current reality.That Christmas (2024)
Richard Curtis created one of the great modern Christmas movies, Love Actually, but he’s looking to add to his holiday résumé with this animated family film about that jolly old fat man who comes down the chimney each year. Written by Curtis (as well as Peter Souter) and directed by Simon Otto in his feature film debut (he previously directed an episode of Love, Death & Robots for Netflix), this charming film weaves together three interconnected holiday tales set in a charming English town. At the heart of these stories are children and parents navigating the chaos of Christmas, from misplaced expectations to surprising acts of generosity, voiced by the likes of Fiona Shaw, Jodie Whittaker and Bill Nighy. And then there’s the character of the center of it all, Santa Claus himself (voiced by Brian Cox), who gets swept up in the town’s festive drama after a critical mistake threatens to derail the holiday. This film, which also features an original song by Ed Sheeran called “Under the Tree,” seems like a holiday-centered hit the entire family can enjoy.Shiva Baby (2021)
Rachel Sennott has rightfully blown up after starring in fantastic comedies like Bodies Bodies Bodies and Bottoms (a movie she wrote with her creative collaborator Ayo Edebiri). But her first big break came after a fantastic performance in the debut film of the woman who directed Bottoms, Emma Seligman, who gave the world a quick-witted and naturalistic depiction of Jewish family gatherings known as Shiva Baby. The story centers on Danielle (played by Sennott), a directionless college student attending a shiva, a Jewish mourning ceremony, with her overbearing parents (Polly Draper and Fred Melamed). What starts as a typical family gathering quickly turns chaotic when Danielle unexpectedly encounters both her sugar daddy Max (Danny Deferrari) and her ex-girlfriend Maya (Molly Gordon) at the event. Sennott delivers a breakout performance as Danielle, balancing vulnerability, humor and inescapable panic as the film’s suffocating atmosphere mirrors Danielle’s increasingly mounting anxiety throughout the event.Run All Night (2015)
On the surface, it may seem like every Liam Neeson movie owns the same kind of story: a veteran assassin or secret agent uses his “special set of skills” (you can basically quote Taken for every one of his characters) to defend the innocent.
