What’s New on Netflix in December 2022
Reading Time: 5 minutesWith new films from Guillermo del Toro, Noah Baumbach, and Rian Johnson, Netflix isn’t slacking off for the holidays.
Back in the old days, when theaters still made actual money showing movies that weren’t part of a ‘cinematic universe,’ December was the best time of year to be a cinema junkie. That was when, in the final weeks of the year, studios would release all of their most lavishly produced, high-minded star vehicles, in the hopes they would be fresh in voters’ minds come awards season. And even if franchise films and the shift to at-home viewing has basically killed the concept of blockbuster movies for grownups, Netflix’s December slate is still keeping the spirit alive with a trio of new films from lauded creators.
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First up is Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro’s passion project, a new stop-motion animated adaptation of the classic novel Pinocchio that looks, from the trailer, to be a more wide-ranging and emotionally wrenching take on the all-too-familiar story. The character designs are singularly arresting and oh-so-slightly creepy, as you would expect from the helmer of Pan’s Labyrinth, and early buzz is it’s good enough to snag a Best Picture Oscar nod.
Noah Baumbach’s last Netflix film, 2019’s Marriage Story, received six Oscar nominations and secured a win for co-star Laura Dern, but the prospects don’t look quite so bright for his weirdly expensive followup, an adaptation of author Don DeLillo’s zeitgeist-y mid-’80s masterpiece White Noise. Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig headline this darkly comic tale of suburban angst and environmental disaster, and word out of the film festival circuit suggests the director didn’t quite manage to adapt the so-called unadaptable book. Still, if nothing else, it should be interesting.
And last but certainly not least is Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, the second in Rian Johnson’s planned series of whodunnit yarns featuring Daniel Craig’s drawling detective Benoit Blanc. The followup to the supremely entertaining and surprisingly successful first entry ($312 million, unheard of these days for a movie with nary an explosion) features even more big name stars than the first, if that’s possible—Edward Norton, Dave Bautista, Katheryn Hahn, and Kate Hudson among them—and a gorgeous Grecian backdrop for another tale of murderous hijinks. Let’s see if Netflix got it’s $450 million worth.
And that’s not all: Netflix will also debut Troll (Dec. 1), a Norwegian disaster film in which an accident in the remote mountains of Norway awakens an ancient, slumber menace; the trailer promises plenty of silly fun.
A new adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s one-time salacious sensation Lady Chatterly’s Lover arrives Dec. 2 to heat up your holiday season; the script is from Oscar-nominated screenwriter David Magee. And while you enjoy the sexy adult fare, your kids can be traumatized by the 300th version of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, as we’re getting yet another CGI animated take on the enduring story that same day.
Other good stuff: ‘Sr.’, a documentary from Robert Downey, Jr. exploring the life of his actor father, premieres Dec. 1; The Witcher: Blood Origin, a prequel to the bloody fantasy hit series, arrives Dec. 25; and Matilda: The Musical brings the stage version of the beloved Roald Dahl novel to the small screen, also on Christmas day.
Here’s everything coming to and leaving Netflix in December 2022. See you next year, y’all.
What’s coming to Netflix in December 2022
Coming Soon (date TBA)
- The Glory — Netflix Series
- God’s Crooked Lines — Netflix Film
- The Interest of Love — Netflix Series
- My Next Guest with David Letterman and Volodymyr Zelenskyy — Netflix Series
Arriving Dec. 1
- Dead End — Netflix Series
- JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean: Season 1 Episodes 25-38 The Final Episodes — Netflix Anime
- The Masked Scammer — Netflix Documentary
- Qala — Netflix Film
- Troll — Netflix Film
- 21 Jump Street
- Basketball Wives: Season 1
- Basketball Wives: Season 2
- Coach Carter
- Forged in Fire: Knife or Death: Season 1
- Hachi: A Dog’s Tale
- The Happytime Murders
- LEGO Friends: Holiday Special
- Love Island USA: Season 3
- Meekah: Season 1
- My Girl
- Peppermint
- Troy
Arriving Dec. 2
- Big Brother: Season 10
- Big Brother: Season 14
- Firefly Lane: Season 2 Part 1 — Netflix Series
- Hot Skull — Netflix Series
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover — Netflix Film
- My Unorthodox Life: Season 2 — Netflix Series
- Scrooge: A Christmas Carol — Netflix Film
- ‘Sr.’ — Netflix Documentary
- Supermodel Me: Revolution: Season 1
- Warriors of Future — Netflix Film
Arriving Dec. 3
- The Best of Me
- Bullet Train
Arriving Dec. 4
- The Amazing Race: Season 17
- The Amazing Race: Season 31
Arriving Dec. 5
- Mighty Express: Mighty Trains Race — Netflix Family
Arriving Dec. 6
- The Boss Baby: Christmas Bonus — Netflix Family
- Delivery by Christmas — Netflix Film
- Sebastian Maniscalco: Is It Me? — Netflix Comedy
Arriving Dec. 7
- Burning Patience — Netflix Film
- Emily the Criminal
- I Hate Christmas — Netflix Series
- The Marriage App — Netflix Film
- The Most Beautiful Flower — Netflix Series
- Smiley — Netflix Series
- Too Hot to Handle: Season 4 — Netflix Series (New episodes weekly)
Arriving Dec. 8
- The Elephant Whisperers — Netflix Documentary
- In Broad Daylight: The Narvarte Case — Netflix Documentary
- Lookism — Netflix Anime
Arriving Dec. 9
- CAT — Netflix Series
- Dragon Age: Absolution — Netflix Anime
- Dream Home Makeover: Season 4 — Netflix Series
- Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio — Netflix Film
- How to Ruin Christmas: The Baby Shower — Netflix Series
- Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area Part 2 — Netflix Series
Arriving Dec. 10
- Alchemy of Souls: Season 1 Part 2 — Netflix Series
- Prisoners
Arriving Dec. 13
- Gudetama: An Eggcellent Adventure — Netflix Anime
- Last Chance U: Basketball: Season 2 — Netflix Documentary
- Single’s Inferno: Season 2 — Netflix Series
- Tom Papa: What A Day! — Netflix Comedy
Arriving Dec. 14
- Don’t Pick Up The Phone — Netflix Documentary
- Glitter — Netflix Series
- I Believe in Santa — Netflix Film
- Kangaroo Valley — Netflix Documentary
- Too Hot to Handle: Season 4 — Netflix Series (New episodes weekly)
Arriving Dec. 15
- The Big 4 — Netflix Film
- The Hills: Season 1
- The Hills: Season 2
- Sonic Prime — Netflix Family
- Violet Evergarden: Recollections — Netflix Anime
- Who Killed Santa? A Murderville Murder Mystery — Netflix Comedy
Arriving Dec. 16
- A Storm for Christmas — Netflix Series
- BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths — Netflix Film
- Cook at All Costs — Netflix Series
- Dance Monsters — Netflix Series
- Far From Home — Netflix Series
- Paradise PD: Part 4 — Netflix Series
- Private Lesson — Netflix Film
- The Recruit — Netflix Series
- Summer Job — Netflix Series
- The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari — Netflix Documentary
Arriving Dec. 18
- Side Effects
Arriving Dec. 19
- Trolley — Netflix Series
- Trolls
Arriving Dec. 20
- A Not So Merry Christmas — Netflix Film
- The Seven Deadly Sins: Grudge of Edinburgh Part 1 — Netflix Anime
Arriving Dec. 21
- Disconnect: The Wedding Planner — Netflix Film
- Emily in Paris: Season 3 — Netflix Series
- I AM A KILLER: Season 4 — Netflix Documentary
Arriving Dec. 22
- Alice in Borderland: Season 2 — Netflix Series
- Mathieu Dufour at Bell Centre — Netflix Comedy
Arriving Dec. 23
- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery — Netflix Film
- Piñata Masters! — Netflix Series
Arriving Dec. 25
- After Ever Happy
- Daughter From Another Mother: Season 3 — Netflix Series
- Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical — Netflix Film
- Time Hustler — Netflix Series
- The Witcher: Blood Origin — Netflix Series
- Vir Das: Landing — Netflix Comedy
Arriving Dec. 26
- No Escape
- Treason — Netflix Series
Arriving Dec. 27
- Chelsea Handler: Revolution — Netflix Comedy
Arriving Dec. 28
- 7 Women and a Murder — Netflix Film
- A Night at the Kindergarten — Netflix Film
- The Circle: Season 5 — Netflix Series (New episodes weekly)
- Stuck with You — Netflix Film
Arriving Dec. 29
- Brown and Friends — Netflix Family
- Rise of Empires: Ottoman: Season 2 — Netflix Documentary
Arriving Dec. 30
- Alpha Males — Netflix Series
- Chicago Party Aunt: Part 2 — Netflix Series
- Secrets of Summer: Season 2 — Netflix Family
- White Noise — Netflix Film
Arriving Dec. 31
- Best of Stand Up 2022 — Netflix Comedy
- Lady Voyeur — Netflix Series
What’s leaving Netflix in December 2022
Leaving Dec. 9
- The Shack
Leaving Dec. 10
- Fast Color
Leaving Dec. 11
- Manhunt: Unabomber
Leaving Dec. 14
- Black Ink Crew New York: Seasons 3-4
- The Challenge: Season 12
- The Challenge: Season 25
- Merlin: Seasons 1-5
- Teen Mom 2: Seasons 3-4
Leaving Dec. 15
- The Danish Girl
Leaving Dec. 27
- Instant Hotel: Season 1
Leaving Dec. 28
- Shrek the Musical
Leaving Dec. 31
- 1BR
- A Cinderella Story
- A Clockwork Orange
- A Little Princess
- Blood Diamond
- Blow
- Blue Jasmine
- Casino Royale
- Chocolat
- Eyes Wide Shut
- I Love You, Man
- Life as We Know It
- Men in Black
- Men in Black II
- Men in Black 3
- National Lampoon’s European Vacation
- National Lampoon’s Vacation
- New York Minute
- Point Break
- Police Academy
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie