Rating: 🎄🎄🎄
Premier Date: November 15, 2025
Description: In Timeless Tidings of Joy, Ally (Candace Cameron Bure), inherits Timeless Tidings, a shop her grandmother, Joy (Natasha Bure), opened in the 1940s to sell her handmade letter-press tidings. The shop was a labor of love, service, and sacrifice throughout the decades for Joy. Ally always saw Joy’s sacrifices for the shop as a burden on Joy’s life and happiness. When Ally returns to the shop to prepare it for sale, she meets Bennett (Paul Green), an old soul, who wants to preserve her Grandma Joy’s legacy. As Ally and Bennett navigate the next steps, divine intervention forces them both to take a new, or rather old look at the fate of the shop and themselves.
Chemistry: Bure and Green actually had really good chemistry. (I credit that more to Green than Bure. I’m not the biggest fan.) Regardless, they worked well together, and even though the movie ended (spoiler alert) in a very modest way, I believed that they could be two people who were just on the cusp of something new.
Plot: It doesn’t reinvent the Christmas-movie wheel, but the story is cohesive, heartfelt, and better executed than many similar setups.
Design: This was a noticeably polished effort from Great American.
Overall: A solid (if still average) entry. It flirted with four trees a few times before settling comfortably at three. Definitely one of Great American’s steadier releases this season.
Best Enjoyed With: The nostalgic hum of an old record player and the scratching sound of a pen writing Christmas cards.
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