CHRISTMAS EVE IN MILLER’S POINT: 2024 ($6.99 rental from Prime Video.) Ty Burr’s wife described Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point after watching it, “Like a cross between Amarcord and Twin Peaks.” RT describes the film this way: In Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point, a rambunctious extended family descends upon their small Long Island hometown for the holidays. Before the evening is over, two teenage cousins take advantage of the chaos to sneak out into the wintry night and make the holiday their own. It is a family get together on Christmas Eve--they are a big, noisy Italian American clan in the suburbs of Long Island. There’s no plot. It’s just a series of scenes, some of them interesting, some not so much. Most are not so much to be exact. Tyler Taormina has made an Xmas movie that is sure not to be a favorite of ours.. As Ty Burr said, It’s a hard movie to describe if only because it seems to resemble every home-for-the-holidays drama ever made, but you immediately pick up on subterranean dissonances and bits of poetic oddness. Critics love the oddness, and RT critics gave it a 79%. The audience’s score was 30%. Gary has a word for it, and it is “Boring!” I was occasionally bored, but I found strangely hypnotic to watch. A lot happens, but none of it interesting to Gary, at least. We agreed to disagree on this one. I give a C, Gary a D. GRADE C/D

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