
A heartbroken Christmas-tree salesman returns to New York City hoping to put his past behind him. Living in a trailer and working the night shift, he begins to spiral downwards until the saving of a mysterious woman and some colorful customers rescue him from self-destruction.... (Full plot summary below)
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A heartbroken Christmas-tree salesman returns to New York City hoping to put his past behind him. Living in a trailer and working the night shift, he begins to spiral downwards until the saving of a mysterious woman and some colorful customers rescue him from self-destruction.
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| The New York TimesBen KenigsbergThis is a Christmas movie in which magic exists largely on the periphery, and that is just the right mix of chilly and sweet. |
| Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleA low-key, near-total charmer, writer-director Charles Poekel's Christmas, Again captures something ineffably moving about the holiday grind. |
| TheWrapAlonso DuraldeDelicate and restrained, the film offers the messages of redemption and renewal we so often crave from a Christmas movie without wrapping its themes and characters in tinsel. |
| RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyMood is ephemeral, but it helps establish point of view and orients us in the dream-space of the film. With all of the things that Christmas, Again (written and directed by Charles Poekel in his feature debut) does well (and it does almost everything well), the most striking thing about it is its evocation of an extremely specific mood. |
| Slant MagazineClayton DillardCharles Poekel displays an assured directorial hand and maintains a modest, appealing, even droll sensibility throughout. |
| The New YorkerRichard BrodyThe hard-won consolations of seasonal sentiment emerge in the searching performances as well as in the impressionistic handheld images. |
| The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloPoekel isn’t interested in something as mundane as a new romance. He’s basically trying to make Seasonal Affective Disorder: The Movie, and comes damn close to pulling it off. He has a tremendous ally in Audley, who gives one of the year’s best performances (albeit one destined to receive no awards and scant attention). |
| ConsequenceRandall ColburnPoekel and Audley keep exposition to a minimum, allowing the truth behind Noel’s breakup to emerge organically, in the weight of an object or his reaction to a beaming couple. It’s elegant filmmaking, seamless in its storytelling. |
| The PlaylistJenni MillerThe movie's pace feels more like a plod, less deliberate than simply unsure of itself. Christmas, Again is a quiet film, but one that could perhaps use a bit more buzz of the holiday season. |
| VarietyPeter DebrugeThe pic’s charm comes from its moments of unforced naturalism: little observations about the way people behave, paired with details and anecdotes that Poekel himself lived during his years operating McGrolick Trees, the same stand where the film was shot. |