Keira Knightley and Matthew Goode star in 'Silent Night,' an apocalyptic comedy about a group of old friends celebrating Christmas as the world ends.
This joyless comedy-satire-horror was conceived before the pandemic. But hoo, boy does its muddled point of view on science-led initiatives designed to mitigate a global catastrophe achieve some startlingly wrongheaded resonance today. But then, long before the gotcha ending that, however inadvertently, can’t help but now seem like veiled anti-vaxxism, “Silent Night’s” premise has become as hopelessly tangled as a poorly stored string of Christmas lights.
Eight ghastly adults and four awful children gather on December 25th to eat, drink and argue, and let me stop you before you make the inevitable joke about how that’s just like your Christmas. Camille Griffin’s grimly misanthropic “Silent Night” isn’t likeChristmas. And not just because there’s an onrushing cloud of poison gas dispensing the gift of global annihilation like a malevolent Santa working through a naughty list that includes every living person on Earth.
The guests, arriving in gusts of air-kisses, are: Nell’s brayingly abrasive BFF Bella and her girlfriend Alex ; quiet doctor James and his American girlfriend Sophie ; and sequined nightmare Sandra , her milquetoast hubs Tony and their insufferable daughter, Kitty , whom Veruca Salt herself would probably deem “a bit much.”
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