Suggested alternate title for this is A Very Closeted Christmas, because the premise is that Kristen Stewart is going to her girlfriend’s parents’ house for the holidays except oh btw the girlfriend never actually told them she was gay, and they’re one of those neurotic WASPy movie families where everyone has to pretend that things are perfect but secretly everything is breaking down in a comedically chaotic way and there’s going to be a big scene where everyone shouts in front of everyone all the things they’ve repressed forever.

This sounds like a “okay, is it 1993 actually?” kind of concept, but it ends up better than you’d think from that description — Aubrey Plaza as the closeted girl’s high school ex-girlfriend and Dan Levy as Stewart’s (also gay) friend back in the city are both great, and do a lot to ground the movie in a real-world emotional reality outside of the comedically dysfunctional retro family stuff that makes up the genre core of the movie, and the big shouty moments are like 60% genre furniture but also 40% actually meaningful.

It seems like it would be hard to really balance this between the dark premise and the frothy genre tone it wants to take, but the movie pulls it off surprisingly well. Recommended, if you want a Christmas-genre movie that isn’t terrible.