This Spanish Netflix Christmas rom-com delivers everything you would want from the genre, as a grumpy Christmas-hating auditor readies himself for his annual escape to Cuba but instead is posted to to check over the finances of a festive nougat factory in a remote small town that, of course, loves the festive season and is staging a world-record attempt for the biggest Nativity play. The feather-light film is breezy, sweet, warm-hearted and gently funny, with some laugh-out-loud slapstick moments and a seemingly self-aware energy that references its American counterparts and has fun with its inherent seasonal silliness - even a game of charades is written and delivered with aplomb ("Moby Dick?!") - making 1,000 Miles From Christmas a very pleasantly enjoyable slice of festive entertainment.
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