Review of Last Christmas (2019) by Matthewmirliani — 10 Nov 2019

Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding are great together (Clarke is a very talented comedic actress and Golding is as charming as ever) and the premise at the core of their characters’ story is genuinely interesting.

But the film that surrounds them does them a great disservice — it’s a messy, tonally uneven patchwork of corniness and poor writing that has no direction. The film never seems to land on what it wants to be, throwing ideas and random, badly connected storylines onto the canvas.

If it had merely focused on Clarke and Golding, it just might have executed the main premise that much better. It’s too bad - with the right editing and writing, this could have worked.