Christmas Eve in Miller's Point

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.

An ecstatically maximalist celebration of ritual.

...perhaps the closest a holiday film has come to truly capturing the experience of coming together for the festive season...

...succumb to its peculiar delights, and it offers a strange kind of Christmas magic.

It’s more of a mood piece than a traditional narrative, capturing the surreal nature of family life in the American suburbs around the holidays.

Intimate, disparate moments of an annual holiday tradition are artfully portrayed in director Tyler Taormina’s latest...