Keira Knightley hosts a final Christmas in the hateful lump of holiday coal Silent Night

For the most part, writer/director Camille Griffin’s feature debut, Silent Night, plays like many comedies set around holiday gatherings. It features typic...

Keira Knightley charms as the holiday hostess keeping her guests happy as oblivion nears.

Keira Knightley and Matthew Goode attend an apocalyptic Christmas party in Camille Griffin's dark comedy. Read the Empire review.

The festive season comes with a calamitous twist in Camille Griffin’s film

In Camille Griffin’s feature directorial debut, a group of old friends — and their families — spend their last night on Earth together.

The tonal shift is so sudden, it’s almost impossible to write about the film and preserve the integrity of its surprises

Roman Griffin Davis delivers a more accomplished performance than in "JoJo Rabbit" in this oddity directed by his mother, Camille Griffin.

Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Lael Loewenstein, Amy Nicholson and Charles Solomon review this weekend’s new movie releases on streaming and on demand ...

Keira Knightley and Matthew Goode star in "Silent Night," an apocalyptic comedy about a group of old friends celebrating Christmas as the world ends.

Controversial filmmaker Paul Verhoeven centers on an infamous 17th-century nun in ‘Benedetta’; also worth seeing, ‘Wolf,’ ‘Encounter.’

In this feature from Camille Griffin, a group of friends facing global disaster have one last Christmas dinner.

Griffin’s movie rarely achieves the suspenseful, unsettling vibe she’s aiming for once the story takes a dark turn around the halfway point.

Here’s a warm, cuddly comedy about family and Christmas, fellowship and food and presents and oh — a planetary apocalypse. There are no spoiler alerts in...

This time, Christmas really is the end of the world

This debut film from Camille Griffin shows enormous potential, but the final act twist leaves a bad smell

The easiest way to make sure your child actors are up to swearing on-screen is casting your own. That's exactly what first-time feature writer/director Camil...

Camille Griffin’s debut feature film “Silent Night” effectively blends two seemingly disparate genres — holiday films and impending apocalyptic cinema

★★☆☆☆The winsome Christmas comedy genre gets a welcome kicking in this feature debut from the film-maker Camille Griffin. If she had focused on tha...

A sharp ensemble keeps calm and carries on, but the narrative gets a bit muddled

Keira Knightley hosts a chaotic Yuletide gathering in a Christmas movie that unevenly mixes merriment with Lars von Trier's 'Melancholia.'

Don’t Look Up and Silent Night hit different, because they’ve adapted for our proximity to disaster. Too bad they’re preaching to the choir.