Some Christmas movies are merry and bright, and others are melancholy and touching, tackling hardship, loss, and tragedy to underscore the importance of family, togetherness, love, and appreciating what you have while you still have it.
Goodbye June, premiering Dec. 24 on Netflix, falls into the latter category, assembling an all-star cast for the tale of a London clan coping with the impending death of their matriarch in the weeks before Christmas.
The directorial debut of Kate Winslet, who co-stars alongside Helen Mirren, Andrea Riseborough, Johnny Flynn, and Timothy Spall, Goodbye June is a movie manufactured to tug at the heartstrings. That it does so this gracefully and movingly is a testament to Winslet’s understated stewardship and a script by her son, Joe Anders, whose manipulations are as gentle as they are affecting.
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