Silent Night
RLJE Films | Release Date: December 3, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
52
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
14
Negative:
2
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80
IGNSiddhant 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
78
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerDec 2, 2021
It’s a slow document of stiff upper lips beginning to quiver, and while Knightley excels as the perfect Kensington upper-crust mummy, it’s Goode who personifies that desperate attempt to keep a veneer of control, even as his world is on the verge of devastation. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperDec 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
68
Paste MagazineAurora AmidonDec 2, 2021
Even with effective individual scenes, Silent Night fails to launch; it sets out to deceive its audience, but only really ends up deceiving itself. Read full review
67
The Film StageJared Mobarak
Griffin has made a comedy, but she pulls no punches. Read full review
67
IndieWireChristian Blauvelt
If Silent Night ultimately aces its peculiar tone, it struggles with having anything to say. Read full review
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