‘The Rip’ Review: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s Impressive Reunion Rivals Films They Made for Big Studios
Variety | 22.01.2026 13:32
Both the good guys and the bad guys work for the Miami-Dade Police Department in “The Rip,” which reunites “Good Will Hunting” buds Ben Affleck and Matt Damon for a dark, trust-no-one heist movie that’s conspicuously better than most Netflix originals and, frankly, right in line with a couple of films the boys made for Warner Bros. earlier this century: namely, “The Departed” and “The Town.” (Like those upscale crime movies, “The Rip” belongs on the big screen. The fact it can’t be seen that way underscores warnings that the streamer isn’t really interested in theatrical, whatever it might claim in order to acquire Warners.)