festive cheer: family is, when you go there, they have to let you in
even — or maybe especially — at Christmastime...
Anna Kendrick is emphatically not in cute mode in Happy Christmas. She’s in deeply messed-up mode as an immature, irresponsible woman who crashes her brother’s family holiday and upends everything.
From my 2014 review:
A master of the subtlest of dramatic observation, [writer-director Joe] Swanberg gently teases wistfully recognizable frustration, tolera…