Netflix is streaming Joe Carnahan’s The Rip today, a compact Miami-set narcotics thriller that leans on star power and procedural claustrophobia. Matt Damon plays Lieutenant Dane Dumars, recently promoted into Velez’s role, and Ben Affleck is Detective Sergeant J.D. Their long-standing rapport is the film’s engine; early critics single out their chemistry as the principal attraction. Carnahan, who co-wrote the screenplay with Michael McGrale, stages The Rip as a tight, tension-driven whodunnit. Representation across the cast also signals mainstream streaming’s ongoing, if uneven, effort to foreground diverse perspectives within conventional genre frameworks.

Source: The Guardian January 16, 2026 06:01 UTC