Silent Night (2021)
Directed by Camille Griffin
Nell, Simon, and their boy Art are ready to welcome friends and family for what promises to be a perfect Christmas gathering. Perfect except for one thing: everyone is going to die.
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At the very least, “Silent Night” expands Knightley’s Christmas-movie legacy beyond the most inadvertently creepy strand of “Love Actually.”
Think of this as “Death, Actually” minus the humor and depth of Richard Curtis’s “Love Actually.”
It might bring Keira Knightley back to the festive genre, but Silent Night is the anti- Love Actually .
When we think of Keira Knightley and Christmas movies, we think of those indelible images of a pre-“Walking Dead” Andrew Lincoln delivering his equal parts charming and creepy flash-card proclamations to her in “Love, Actually” (2003), but if you think THAT holiday moment was problematic, welcome to “Silent Night.”
This deliberate lump of coal has the benefit of featuring Keira Knightley, who starred in one of the ultimate happy Christmas movies in Love Actually, a choice that seems intentional when you unwrap its yuletide sentiments and find that all of the love, romance, joy, and friendship holiday movies peddle in are made into kindling by the film’s caustic sense of humor.
For everyone who has ever watched Love Actually and Last Christmas and idly wished for all their characters to be suddenly, brutally obliterated, Silent Night may sound downright irresistible.
The film stars Keira Knightley ( Love Actually ), Matthew Goode ( Downton Abbey ), Roman Griffin Davis ( Jojo Rabbit ), Annabelle Wallis ( Malignant ), Lily-Rose Depp ( Voyagers ), Ṣọpé Dìrísù ( His House ), Kirby Howell-Baptiste ( The Good Place ), Lucy Punch ( A Series of Unfortunate Events , 2017), and Rufus Jones ( Flack ).