Hassum, a reasonably successful comic frontman, delivers a gratingly loud performance in the lead role that is working to sell the Dickensian contempt for the holidays, just so long as you’re willing and able to overlook the obvious performative excess, which unfortunately I wasn’t. The film’s best gimmick is the character trying to figure out what some version of himself he can’t recall has gotten up to during that period, and it’s a neat-ish gimmick to liven up the usual Groundhog Day-style time loop conceit. Your requisite Grinch figure is Jorge (Leandro Hassum), who takes a nasty fall on Christmas Eve and wakes up a year later with no memory of the intervening 12 months. It’s from Brazil, though, which at least makes for a bit of novelty, and it mashes together a hodgepodge of genres, taking the typical Scrooge figure realizing the value of the holidays narrative and sprinkling it with some memory loss and time loop trappings just in case you didn’t see Palm Springs this year.
The Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse As a prophecy of doom unfolds on the peaceful land of Britannia, a purehearted boy sets out on a journey of discovery and revenge. A live-action adaptation of Aang's story. You really can’t move for Christmas content on Netflix this year, and the unfortunately-titled Just Another Christmas is indeed just another Christmas movie. Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony then everything changed. Just Another Christmas makes a determined effort to freshen up the time loop conceit, but it still has an overly familiar Scrooge-style arc at its core.
