Wake Up Useless Man might quickly now not be the No. 1 homicide thriller film on Netflix. The third installment in Rian Johnson’s critically acclaimed Knives Out collection has been a streaming hit because it dropped on the platform on December 12, following a brief theatrical run. Nonetheless, now, the true crime documentary Homicide in Monaco is climbing the streaming charts.
Hodges Usry’s (X-Males: First Class, The Conspirator) new Netflix true crime function delves into the mysterious homicide of billionaire banker Edmond Safra, who was discovered lifeless in his penthouse in Monaco in 1999. Only some skilled critics have reviewed Homicide in Monaco, nevertheless it has garnered a few favorable opinions on Rotten Tomatoes, in addition to some constructive viewers reactions.
Per FlixPatrol, Homicide in Monaco is the No. 4 film on this planet on Netflix at the moment (December 22), simply behind Wake Up Useless Man: A Knives Out Thriller at No. 3. 2018’s The Grinch is at No. 2, whereas South Korean catastrophe film The Nice Flood is streaming’s No. 1. The latter simply unseated Knives Out because the higher-ranking film on Netflix worldwide.
New and previous vacation flicks are additionally presently very talked-about throughout varied streaming platforms, with 2000’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas at No. 5 and 2025’s My Secret Santa at No. 7 (The Croods: A New Age is No. 6). Moreover, Homicide in Monaco is No. 5 among the many High 10 Motion pictures within the U.S. Right now on Netflix (after A Line of Hearth, A Cowboy Christmas Romance, Wake Up Useless Man, and The Nice Flood).
Wake Up Useless Man, which has a 92% on Rotten Tomatoes, has inevitably been an enormous success on Netflix, however it’s beginning to fall off a few weeks after its premiere. In the meantime, the discharge of a brand new true crime documentary has once more garnered the eye of Netflix’s subscribers, who’ve come to anticipate high quality content material on this style from the streaming big.
For example, although Netflix dropped The Good Neighbor on streaming at the start of the yr, the documentary holds a 99% on Rotten Tomatoes and has maintained its momentum as a frontrunner for a Finest Documentary nomination on the 2026 Oscars. This function movie depicts the occasions surrounding a deadly altercation between neighbors in Florida, critiquing the state’s “stand your floor” legal guidelines.
Although much less critically acclaimed, Netflix nonetheless continues to supply its Monster anthology collection about completely different serial killers. Netflix continues to broaden its library of fictional and actual homicide thriller tales, in addition to extra lighthearted fare, providing subscribers very completely different modes of leisure this vacation season.
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Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph