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Happy New Year, Colin Burstead

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Colin Burstead hires a lavish country manor for his extended family to celebrate New Year. Unfortunately for Colin his position of power in the family is under serious threat from the arrival of his estranged brother David.

Critics Reviews

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Paul Byrnes Sydney Morning Herald 03/18/2020
2.5/5
Wheatley appears to have hired a big house, filled it with friends and booze, giving each person a thin description of their character, then waited for the magic to happen. What results is a disjointed mess. Go to Full Review
David Stratton The Australian 03/13/2020
[It] represents an unfortunate revival of that boring old Dogme style, which should have been laid to rest long ago and, for me, the jittery, all-over-the-place, cinematography makes the film virtually unwatchable. Go to Full Review
Harriet Fitch Little Financial Times 02/13/2019
4/5
Cuts like acid through the fatty, feel-good excess of the Christmas film canon. Go to Full Review
Paul Farrell Vague Visages 12/12/2023
This film will undoubtedly become a key text for critical essays and university studies on post-referendum British cinema. Go to Full Review
Tori Brazier Flickering Myth 03/25/2021
4/5
... One of the most nuanced, entertaining comedies of the year - and that's quite something for a film that revolves around a house of Brits arguing with one another. Go to Full Review
Stephen A. Russell The New Daily (Australia) 08/15/2020
4/5
Take one fractured family and deposit a fancy hired mansion with way too much booze to ring in the New Year and watch how it all falls apart. Go to Full Review
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Audience Reviews

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O g Aug 7 Some promising elements here but it misses the target by a fraction. See more bill f @BrokerBill 09/10/2024 What a great film! Anything Ben Wheatley does is always at least interesting and usually pretty tense, this outing being a prime example. Fabulous performances, especially from the intense Neil Maskell and irritatingly smug Sam Riley. It sucks you in and just won’t let go. Some excellent dialogue throughout. I already want to watch it again. Ben Wheatley is the man!! See more Local G 01/13/2024 I'm assuming this is how middle class film makers think the working class actually behave? This is basically an extended Christmas episode of Eastenders sadly no one improvs 'He's not worth it Ricky!' Hilariously Colin does really say 'We've all had a drink.' I accept only clever people can see the Emperor's clothes but life holds one guarantee this was publicly funded! See more isla s 09/04/2022 I found this a slow and bleak watch. If watching family members argue among themselves and get increasingly annoyed with one another is your idea of entertainment, or otherwise a good film, then this may be worth a watch but I didn't feel the plot direction was good enough, so it really wasn't memorable to me. The ending did seem a bit better perhaps than what came before, its chaotic, not entirely unenjoyable but by that point, I'd all but switched off. I did smirk at the end though. I've been ok with some bleak films before but this particular one I didn't think a great deal of. See more 09/22/2020 Ooops, reviewed wrong movie before. Ignore this review. See more 12/31/2019 Ensamble family drama of what mostly artificial scenarios but there is a naturalism and the talented cast just nudge it to watchable. See more Read all reviews
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead

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Movie Info

Synopsis Colin Burstead hires a lavish country manor for his extended family to celebrate New Year. Unfortunately for Colin his position of power in the family is under serious threat from the arrival of his estranged brother David.
Director
Ben Wheatley
Producer
Andrew Starke
Screenwriter
Ben Wheatley
Production Co
Rook Films
Genre
Drama
Original Language
British English
Runtime
1h 30m