Rating: 🎄🎄🎄
Premiere Date: November 1, 2025
Description: In Christmas in Midnight Clear, Hillary Shaw (Dea Josipovic), a successful corporate real estate developer, arrives in a struggling small town with big plans to modernize it—by buying every property she can and declaring the rest under eminent domain. But when she meets Daniel Porter (McLaren), the town’s local pastor and all-around community hero, her blueprints for change start to look a little shaky.
Chemistry: Pretty good, actually. Josipovic was solid, and McLaren held his own. In true Great American fashion, everything felt a little emotionally flat, but they managed to make it work. Some of the supporting cast, especially the overzealous grandpa, could’ve turned it down a notch (or three).
Plot: Classic Christmas-movie fare. There were enough “big city girl learns the meaning of small-town charm” moments to fill a bingo card—and yes, they called her that phrase at least five times. Still, the pacing was good, and the story delivered exactly what it promised.
Design: The set design did its job: festive but not flashy, cozy without being distracting. No major flubs to report, which already puts it ahead of the pack.
Overall: Perfectly average in every way—and I mean that as a compliment. It’s the cinematic equivalent of a sugar cookie: predictable, pleasant, and guaranteed to get you through a Sunday afternoon without complaint.
Best Enjoyed With: A half-decorated tree, lukewarm cocoa, and your phone in hand for some light scrolling.
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