Christmas Eve in Miller's Point
IFC Films | Release Date: November 8, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
72
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Generally favorable reviews based on 20 Critic Reviews
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16
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3
Negative:
1
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91
The Film StageRory O'ConnorMay 21, 2024
Taormina achieves a singular tone. Read full review
90
The New YorkerRichard BrodyNov 8, 2024
It wasn’t on my list of likely occurrences that a nostalgic and sentimental holiday movie would provide some of the year’s sharpest characterizations on film and also boast a strikingly original narrative form. Read full review
88
Slant MagazineChuck BowenOct 7, 2024
In Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point, holiday tropes born of life and movies alike are exaggerated, parodied, celebrated, and compressed to suggest how our idea of Christmas is a river of memories real and imagined. Read full review
85
The Daily BeastNick SchagerNov 8, 2024
A snapshot of an annual family gathering that’s laced with an array of prickly emotions, it’s an evocatively ragamuffin and rowdy mood piece. Read full review
80
Little White LiesHannah StrongNov 18, 2024
It’s a film with an affection for the past, but one that also acknowledges you can never go back to how things were when you were younger – and that while everything about the holidays seems perfectly exciting and straightforward as a kid, the older you get, the more the fault lines start to appear. Read full review
80
The Irish TimesTara BradyNov 15, 2024
There are cruising parallels with American contemporaries the Ross Brothers and Halina Reijn, but this daisy chain has an earnest, festive charm unlike any other. It’s a vibe. Read full review
80
EmpireLiz MoodyNov 15, 2024
More ‘Lost In Long Island’ than ‘Miracle On Main Street’, this offbeat indie ladles on the melancholy mood while skimping on the holiday highs, and seems destined to become a cult Christmas favourite. Read full review
80
TheWrapWilliam BibbianiNov 11, 2024
It’s a little happy, a little sad, a little off-putting, a lot like going home again. And it’s always interesting. Read full review
80
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergNov 7, 2024
"Miller’s Point” is a Christmas movie more invested in atmosphere, and the qualities of wintry light, than in holiday cheer — and that somehow makes it all the more warm. Read full review
80
VarietyJessica KiangMay 21, 2024
Tyler Taormina‘s delightful stocking-stuffer Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point is as alive to the domesticated magic of the season as a classic carol. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawMay 21, 2024
It might resemble other family dramas, but there’s a hum of something strange underneath, a sense that life is about surrendering to the infinite flow of events. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoNov 8, 2024
It's a deceptively complex piece of filmmaking, something that feels artfully executed and organic at the same time. It has so many layers, all of them covered in the emotions that erupt when we reconnect with our families. Read full review
75
IndieWireDavid EhrlichMay 21, 2024
Christmas in Miller’s Point is just happy to be an immaculately conceived vibe. Read full review
70
ColliderRoss BonaimeNov 7, 2024
Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point manages to bring to life a realistic portrayal of the holidays, in both its ups and downs, that few holiday films ever even try to accomplish. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenMay 21, 2024
Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point can feel like a party that refuses to end, one that could have used some judicious streamlining. But it’s a memorably adventurous party, fueled by intense hopefulness, and Taormina’s fondness for the characters is the movie’s beating heart. Read full review
70
Screen DailyTim GriersonMay 21, 2024
Generously mixing comedy, nostalgia, pathos and misanthropy, Christmas Eve In Miller’s Point embraces its brood’s rambunctious spirit, resisting the temptation to let any character become the central protagonist. Read full review
60
Screen RantAlex HarrisonNov 7, 2024
What I connected to wins out over what I didn't – I have enjoyed sitting with its ideas, and there are a couple flourishes that will stick with me. Read full review
40
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeNov 18, 2024
The prosaic anti-escapism of this sprawling American indie thoroughly subverts the expectations of the festive family movie. Read full review
40
The TelegraphRobbie CollinNov 14, 2024
Beneath the charming sparkly wrap, there’s just more of the same underneath: an endless round of pass-the-parcel that never actually coughs up a gift. Read full review
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Movie NationRoger MooreNov 11, 2024
Unexplained, disorganized and cluttered with characters we strain to identify in banal situations that go nowhere, this isn’t one that’s going to replace “It’s a Wonderful Life,” “A Christmas Story” or even “The Family Stone” or “Feast of the Seven Fishes” on anybody’s holiday movie list. Read full review
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