In an often disorienting mixture of rages, flashbacks, speeches to the camera, and nods to other movies, the story rolls and stammers along, drawing the family into a Christmas get-together but denying them more than a glimpse of the harmony that we might, by tradition, expect.

NEWYORKER: A Christmas Tale

Every other year, hundreds of African-American descendants of Hal Rand get together at a different location for a massive family reunion.

CNN: The story

It was a get-together of friends, all staying on a ranch in the region that the family of one of them owned for generations.

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