The commercial world seems to push holidays earlier and earlier these days. The kids are back at school, and the Halloween aisles in stores start popping up; these same aisles aren't even cleared by the time the tinsel and baubles start appearing. So, although we're getting more accustomed to thinking about Christmas before winter even really kicks in, September seems like a strange time for a Christmas movie to release, but somehow, director Jay Duplass makes it feel like a well-deserved treat. His latest effort, The Baltimorons, succeeds in doing what many more explicitly Christmas-themed movies fail at: capturing that crazy time of year when, at least in our most romantic imaginations, a single day can change lives. Not one snowflake falls in this movie, and yet it is easily the most compelling and truly spirited Christmas movie that we have had in years. And September seems as good a time as any to enjoy it.
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