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New on Netflix: January 2024’s Best New Movies & Shows

Start the new year with a new season of Queer Eye, Dan Levy’s feature directorial debut, and Sofia Vergara’s return to television.
Queer Eye
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A new year is upon us, and Netflix is celebrating with a slew of timely TV shows and movies in January.

It’ll be a month of firsts for the streamer. After winning multiple Emmys for his work on Schitt’s Creek, actor Dan Levy makes his feature directorial debut with Good Grief on January 5. Speaking of finding success after a sitcom, Sofia Vergara’s first post-Modern Family TV project, Griselda, hits the platform on January 25. And after the next season of Queer Eye, which launches on January 24, the Fab Five will become a foursome, after the exit of design guru Bobby Berk.

But the month won’t come without its nostalgia. All six seasons of hit NBC drama This Is Us will be coming to the service on January 8. At the start of the month, a number of expansive franchises will also be available to stream on Netflix, including the first three chapters of John Wick, both Mamma Mia! films, all three of the original trips to Jurassic Park, and Ben Stiller’s Meet the Parents trilogy.

Here’s what else is coming to Netflix in January:

Good Grief

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For six seasons, Dan Levy acted with real members of his brood to mine familial strife for comedy. Now, he’s turning his focus to chosen family in his feature writing and directorial debut. Levy also stars as Marc, who was content playing second-fiddle to his larger-than-life husband Oliver (Luke Evans) before Oliver’s unexpected death. He’s assisted through the grieving process by his best friends Sophie (Ruth Negga) and Thomas (Himesh Patel), who guide Marc through a renewing trip to Paris.

Jacqueline Novak: Get on Your Knees

Jacqueline Novak: Get on Your Knees. Jacqueline Novak at the Townhall in New York. Cr. Emily V. Aragones/Netflix © 2023EMILY V. ARAGONES/NETFLIX

What began as an Off-Broadway stand-up set about the blowjob in 2019 is now becoming immortalized. The final performance of comic Jacqueline Novak’s beloved one-woman performance was directed by Natasha Lyonne and lensed by cinematographer Sam Levy after earning acclaim from regular audiences and A-listers alike. “It’s not like I’m someone who was always drawing genitals in my notebook,” Novak told Vanity Fair of the work back in 2020. “What I find exciting is taking something that is thought of as inherently vulgar, and then treating it poetically or philosophically or intellectually.”

Queer Eye

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With the recent announcement that interior decorator Bobby Berk would be the first of the Fab Five to leave Queer Eye, the show’s eighth season will prove especially emotional. The New Orleans-set installment is the last time Berk works his magic alongside food-focused Antoni Porowski, beauty expert Jonathan Van Ness, stylist Tan France, and culture specialist Karamo Brown. “It’s not been an easy decision to be at peace with, but a necessary one,” Berk said of his exit on social media in November. “Although my journey with Queer Eye is over, my journey with you is not. You will be seeing more of me very soon.”

Griselda

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After 11 seasons on ABC’S Modern Family, star Sofia Vergara is making her long-awaited return to TV (outside of her judging commitments on America’s Got Talent, that is) in a totally different context. She executive produces this series and stars as Griselda Blanco, the real-life woman responsible for one of the most profitable cartels in history. Known as “the Godmother,” Griselda’s methods for exerting her power in 1970s-80s Miami can skew deadly—something Narcos showrunner Eric Newman, who created the show with series director Andrés Baiz, knows a thing or two about.

The full list of what’s coming to Netflix in January:

Coming Soon

Detective Forst (NETFLIX SERIES)

Delicious in Dungeon (NETFLIX ANIME)

Dusty Slay: Workin’ Man (NETFLIX COMEDY)

The Kitchen (NETFLIX FILM)

Kübra (NETFLIX SERIES)

January 1

Bitconned (NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY)

Fool Me Once (NETFLIX SERIES)

You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment (NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY)

Annabelle

Annie (1982)

Antz

Aquaman

Beethoven

Bruce Almighty

The Croods

Dawn of the Dead

The First Purge

Gravity

How to Train Your Dragon

It’s Complicated

Jackie Brown

John Wick

John Wick: Chapter 2

John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum

Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park II

Little Fockers

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

Loudermilk: Seasons 1-3

Mamma Mia!

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

Meet the Fockers

Meet the Parents

The New Americans: Gaming a Revolution

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

ONE PIECE: Marineford

Peppa Pig: Seasons 3-6

The Purge: Election Year

School of Rock

Survivor: Season 33

Survivor: Season 7

This Is 40

Those Who Wish Me Dead

Training Day

The Wonder Years: Seasons 1-2 (2021)

January 4

Boy Swallows Universe (NETFLIX SERIES)

The Brothers Sun (NETFLIX SERIES)

Society of the Snow (NETFLIX FILM)

January 5

Good Grief (NETFLIX FILM)

Gyeongseong Creature Part 2 (NETFLIX SERIES)

January 6

The Florida Project

January 8

This Is Us Seasons 1-6

January 10

Break Point: Season 2 (NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY)

The Trust: A Game of Greed (NETFLIX SERIES)

January 11

Champion (NETFLIX SERIES)

Sonic Prime Chapter 3 (NETFLIX FAMILY)

January 12

Lift (NETFLIX FILM)

Love is Blind: Sweden (NETFLIX SERIES)

January 15

CoComelon: Season 9

Holey Moley: Seasons 3-4

maboroshi (NETFLIX ANIME)

MTV Floribama Shore: Season 2

January 16

Cats (2019)

January 17

End of the Line (NETFLIX SERIES)

Freaks

January 18

Rachid Badouri: Les fleurs du tapis (NETFLIX COMEDY)

January 19

Love on the Spectrum U.S.: Season 2 (NETFLIX SERIES)

Mi soledad tiene alas (NETFLIX FILM)

Sixty Minutes (NETFLIX FILM)

January 20

Captivating the King (NETFLIX SERIES)

The Real World: Season 16

January 22

Not Quite Narwhal: Season 2 (NETFLIX FAMILY)

January 23

Jacqueline Novak: Get on Your Knees (NETFLIX COMEDY)

Train to Busan

January 24

Six Nations: Full Contact (NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY)

American Girl: Corinne Tan

Queer Eye: Season 8 (NETFLIX SERIES)

January 25

The UnXplained with William Shatner: Season 4

Griselda (NETFLIX SERIES)

Masters of the Universe: Revolution (NETFLIX SERIES)

January 27

Doctor Slump (NETFLIX SERIES)

January 29

Mighty Bheem’s Playtime (NETFLIX FAMILY)

January 30

Jack Whitehall: Settle Down (NETFLIX COMEDY)

January 31

Alexander the Great (NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY)

Baby Bandito (NETFLIX SERIES)

The Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse: Part 1 (NETFLIX ANIME)

WIL (NETFLIX FILM)

What’s leaving Netflix in January 2024:

Make it a resolution to see some dearly departing titles before their exodus from the streamer this month, including Jordan Peele’s Get Out, Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name, and Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring. 

January 5

BlackKkKlansman

Get Out

Love Island USA: Season 2

Ma

January 12

Spy Kids

Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams

Spy Kids 3: Game Over

January 14

The Doll

The Doll 2

Uncharted

January 19

The Real World: Season 28

January 22

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

January 24

Begin Again

January 31

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

Baby Mama

The Bling Ring

Call Me By Your Name

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: Season 1

Eat Pray Love

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

La La Land

Survivor: Season 32: Kaôh Rōng

For more, check out VF’s list of the best shows on Netflix.