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- 2021
- Not Rated
- AMC+
- 1 h 32 m
- 2021
- Not Rated
- AMC+
- 1 h 32 m
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 perfec...
Directed By: Camille Griffin
Written By: Camille Griffin
- 2021
- Not Rated
- AMC+
- 1 h 32 m
- 2021
- Not Rated
- AMC+
- 1 h 32 m
Silent Night
52
5.2
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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 perfec...
Directed By: Camille Griffin
Written By: Camille Griffin
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
52
27% Positive
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6 Reviews
64% Mixed
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
9% Negative
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2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
52
27% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
64% Mixed
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
9% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
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.
Griffin has made a comedy, but she pulls no punches.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 36 User Ratings
5.2
28% Positive
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
47% Mixed
17 Ratings
17 Ratings
25% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 36 User Ratings
5.2
28% Positive
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
47% Mixed
17 Ratings
17 Ratings
25% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
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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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 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.
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Most of Silent Night’s pleasures are to be found in the strength of its cast – Knightley, whose comic talent is frequently underused, can turn on a kind manic perkiness that’s as endearing as it is absolutely terrifying. It’s a smile that says, yes, if I ever were to murder you, they’d never find the body.
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.
Writer/director Camille Griffin’s feature filmmaking debut is an ambitious but muddled mix of Christmas comedy and apocalyptic drama.
The characters, despite their histrionic representation of the wealthy class, are not compelling enough to carry the movie, nor are the horrors of the outside world fleshed out enough to frighten.
The film misplaces the root of our current existential dilemma, then covers it with tepid droll comedy and clunky melodrama.
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 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.
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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 the performances, but from there on out, Silent Night is a film that sounded more interesting in talk than in execution.
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Production Company
Maven Screen Media,
Marv Films
Release Date Dec 3, 2021
Duration 1 h 32 m
Rating Not Rated
Tagline Celebrating a final Christmas night before an apocalypse will destroy the world.
Website
https://www.marv.com/future.html
Awards
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Sombra Festival de Cine Fantástico Europeo de Murcia
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
• 1 Nomination
