Merry Christmas

Name: Merry Christmas
Genre: Comedy
Released: December 6, 2013
Duration: 83 min
Rating: 25

2013

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| Release Date: December 6, 2013 | Not Rated

Summary: With money running low, nine New Yorkers forgo their annual Christmas in Aspen and head to Pennsylvania for a murder-mystery weekend.

Director: Anna Condo

Genre(s): Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 83 min

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Jen Chaney

Dec 4, 2013

Lacks a sense of structure and purpose, ambling from one tense conversation to the next without effectively making a impact. Read full review

Abbey Bender

Dec 2, 2013

The conceit has the potential to be amusing, but the role-playing is never as funny or immersive as it could be, and the characters' repartee often feels more stilted than witty. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Sheila O'Malley

Dec 6, 2013

Through the playing of the game, the real life characters' true personalities emerge, and we can see that this is a pretty heartless bunch. Read full review

Neil Genzlinger

Dec 5, 2013

One of those who’s-the-murderer parlor games is a plot pillar of Merry Christmas, an experiment in filmmaking by Anna Condo that itself feels like a parlor game, and not a particularly entertaining one. Read full review

Joe Leydon

Dec 6, 2013

There doesn’t appear to be any purpose at all to the random exchanges and interactions that pass for a plot. Read full review

Nick Schager

Dec 5, 2013

What's really absent from this fiasco is a sense of purpose or an interest in character, as the participants in this weekend-getaway contest are ciphers defined mainly by their degree of obnoxiousness. Read full review

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