SURVIVING CHRISTMAS WITH THE RELATIVES

OUT 30 NOVEMBER

Drunk vicars and stoned teens are among the non-dramas in this contrived comedy of errors. Gemma Whelan tries hard to brighten a fraught family do at her late parents’ farmhouse, but the turkey isn’t alone in resisting capture: laughs and emotional stakes prove equally elusive in the desperation to engineer a sense of mounting crisis. Kevin Harley