Conveyor-belt Christmas movies tend to tread a very fine line between whimsical feel-good and crass nonsense, and this latest 2022 Latin-inflected Netflix festive offering falls firmly in the latter category, as a pop singer is under threat from upcoming talent and being dropped by her label unless she delivers a hit Christmas song. Landing with a teenage fan and her music-teacher father when snowed in at a small town, unlikely romance and that elusive song inevitably follow. With an unlikeable lead character and an ageing Freddie Prinze Jr as the musician/widower trying to charm, the general lack of warmth, sincerity and basic credibility do not help to sell the film, and neither does the simplistically unrealistic portrayal of the music industry.
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