Silent Night

Name: Silent Night
Genre: Drama, Horror, Comedy
Released: December 3, 2021
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 52
Cast: Annabelle Wallis, Holly Aird, Keira Knightley, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Lily-Rose Melody Depp

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RLJE Films | Release Date: December 3, 2021 | Not Rated

Starring: Annabelle Wallis, Holly Aird, Keira Knightley, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Lily-Rose Melody Depp, Lucy Punch, Matthew Goode, Roman Griffin Davis, Rufus Jones, Sope Dirisu, Trudie Styler

Summary: A cozy house in the English countryside. The tree has been lovingly decorated. A grand feast is being prepared. Over the sound system, Michael Bublé croons about holiday sweaters. Nell (Keira Knightley), Simon (Matthew Goode), and their boy Art (Roman Griffin Davis) are ready to welcome friends and family for what promises to be a perfectA cozy house in the English countryside. The tree has been lovingly decorated. A grand feast is being prepared. Over the sound system, Michael Bublé croons about holiday sweaters. Nell (Keira Knightley), Simon (Matthew Goode), and their boy Art (Roman Griffin Davis) are ready to welcome friends and family for what promises to be a perfect Christmas gathering. Perfect except for one thing: everyone is going to die.… Expand

Director: Camille Griffin

Genre(s): Drama, Horror, Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 92 min

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Siddhant Adlakha

With a stunningly honest performance from the director’s son — Jojo Rabbit star Roman Griffin Davis — Silent Night balances the eccentricities of a Christmas get-together with nihilistic acceptance of certain doom, making for a film that’s both bleak and dryly funny. Read full review

Richard Roeper

Dec 1, 2021

Writer-director Griffin deftly toggles between social/political commentary and the deadpan comedy/horror at hand, as this mostly British group does the stiff-upper-lip, carry-on thing for as long as a possible before things start to unravel in raw and brutal fashion because after all, this is the end. Read full review

The Film Stage Jared Mobarak

Griffin has made a comedy, but she pulls no punches. Read full review

Alonso Duralde

Griffin juggles her many characters well, and she’s very smart about weaponizing the coziness of Christmas movies to make uncomfortable points. Silent Night may wind up being a successful calling card for her (as a director if not as a screenwriter), but for all the beautiful wrapping, it’s mostly an empty box. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Dec 3, 2021

This Silent Night doesn’t land its satiric punches cleanly. And in abandoning the “comedy” part of “dark comedy,” it isn’t exactly a place to visit to get happy during a global pandemic. Read full review

The Playlist Marya E. Gates

Highly ambitious, dark as midnight, and often hilarious, Griffin’s debut film Silent Night doesn’t always work, but her insightful look at the inherent selfishness of humanity and our absurd need to cling to hope no matter what is spot on. Read full review

Pat Brown

Nov 30, 2021

The film misplaces the root of our current existential dilemma, then covers it with tepid droll comedy and clunky melodrama. Read full review

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LoyalSheep

Jan 28, 2022

Silent Night is an underrated gem. It´s entertaining, funny, sad, heartful, lovely, dramatic, it´s human and it´s about our society, our thinking, our behaviour. It´s about parents and kids, it´s about how noone is listening to the kids. Today everwhere is drama... there is almost no game,Silent Night is an underrated gem. It´s entertaining, funny, sad, heartful, lovely, dramatic, it´s human and it´s about our society, our thinking, our behaviour. It´s about parents and kids, it´s about how noone is listening to the kids. Today everwhere is drama... there is almost no game, no series, no movie without drama. It´s all about loss, pain, torturing emotional and physical. This movie gets many negative reviews but it´s the only movie from the last years, where all the drama makes sense... it´s not just for shocking, not because there is no real content, no substance. The drama is because it´s part of the whole story, it´s important, it´s a mirror to our society and the way we act and ... judge. And it´s well dosed. We are living in *special* times, corona, fear, people going mad about it. People getting paniced... this movie is about all this and it´s great

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Habibiehakim

Dec 23, 2021

People (including me) that haven't watch the trailer will thought this is gonna be a Ready Or Not movie alike, when a family started to killing each other, and this one is just the B-version of it except a notable name like Keira Knightley and Lily-Rose Depp, well, Silent Night is a muchPeople (including me) that haven't watch the trailer will thought this is gonna be a Ready Or Not movie alike, when a family started to killing each other, and this one is just the B-version of it except a notable name like Keira Knightley and Lily-Rose Depp, well, Silent Night is a much better film, story, and concept than i expected, it's about a family friends that got together and taking they're time for one last time because they must take a death pill so they are not suffer to death because of a deathly gas that takes everybody's life, we hear they're story, we know they're feeling, and we care, Silent Night have a feeling, it's not them killing each other with a lot of blood and goryness and we as an audience just have a madness feeling and that's about it, one scene make me cry in Silent Night, it's a more sad and tragic situation, it's moving and emotional that leaves me hoping that is not just happen, overall Silent Night was amazing, it was incredibly well perform by all the cast, it's a unique and diffe rent yet it's a very sad and dark story, Silent Night it's one of the best films of the year in the end of the year, totally worth it.… Expand

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Linpol17

Jan 14, 2022

Отличный фильм, только концовка разочаровала

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bertobellamy

Jan 20, 2022

Not quite funny as you'd expect, and not too bleak as it could be. 'Silent Night' struggles a lot with what it wants to be, and it shows during the whole film. Also, the anti-vaccines vibe, although unintentional, is kind of distressing. Either way, maybe it wasn't that good idea to questionNot quite funny as you'd expect, and not too bleak as it could be. 'Silent Night' struggles a lot with what it wants to be, and it shows during the whole film. Also, the anti-vaccines vibe, although unintentional, is kind of distressing. Either way, maybe it wasn't that good idea to question science with the posture of some of the characters. Still better than the insufferable 'Don't Look Up,' but pretty forgettable in the end.… Expand

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JLuis_001

Dec 14, 2021

Even with the good catalyst for all the events and stuff this film attempts, from the black comedy to its melodrama close to the ending. The mix is too cluttered that nothing manages to grab the spotlight enough for the narrative to have a better common thread.

The highlights are theEven with the good catalyst for all the events and stuff this film attempts, from the black comedy to its melodrama close to the ending. The mix is too cluttered that nothing manages to grab the spotlight enough for the narrative to have a better common thread.

The highlights are the performances, but from there on out, Silent Night is a film that sounded more interesting in talk than in execution.… Expand

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snorkiss

Dec 11, 2021

Silent Night is a black comedy without the comedy, there's some satire in here too but it's quite frankly stupid. This is a Christmas film that doesn't aim very high but manages to fall waaaaaay below the bar - 3 Xmas stars

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deck

Dec 11, 2021

I would like to give a -10. I can't understand why you can make such a depressive film (and publish it during a pandemic). This is no horror, no drama and no comedy (except for the first 10 minutes) but, sorry, very very bad. avoid this movie.

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