Christmas Eve in Miller's Point

"A sweet, nostalgic love letter to suburban Holiday-season rituals (...) It leaves you with the warmest, fuzziest of feelings, and a renewed resolve to be home for Christmas, if only in your dreams" 

"[It] can feel like a party that refuses to end, one that could have used some judicious streamlining. But it’s a memorably adventurous party, fueled by intense hopefulness, and Taormina’s fondness for the characters is the movie’s beating heart" 

"Few of these details make a strong impression on their own, but all add their own little shimmer to Taormina’s kaleidoscopic reverie, and even the tedious ones help to recenter the fact that nothing lasts. That’s why we have traditions" 

"Tyler Taormina’s odd ensemble piece (...) challenges conventions and warms the soul" 

"It captures the Holiday spirit (...) [It] is a trip for anyone willing to roll with it, and more than cements Taormina as a talent to watch" 

"Holiday tropes born of life and movies alike are exaggerated, parodied, celebrated, and compressed to suggest how our idea of Christmas is a river of memories real and imagined (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)" 

"Each red, green, and white detail is rendered so rhapsodically as to appear gauzily indistinct, as if all of the Christmases that we’ve ever cherished have been reconstituted over one another"