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By Stephen Rodrick. Every year, the best and brightest of the world — middle management apparatchiks, underemployed magazine writers and hall of fame doomscrollers — would chime in, mostly on the nein side, and make their arguments with eloquence. That one I heard a lot.

Was it still a glorious double-steak overstuffed Chipotle burrito of humanity, or would I now see it as they did — a foot-long Subway sandwich with way too many olives bought at a South Dakota gas station? Popular on Variety. So I watched the movie again this week.

I was struck with an unearned epiphany, the kind that you find in a middlebrow holiday romantic comedy.

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Turns out, I was going about my defense of the movie in the wrong way. I was trying to argue the merits of the performances of Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman, the beauty of holiday-time London, and so on. A little context. What he had not done was direct a movie.

So, he decided to construct a nine-arc plot lightly centered around Christmas. Let me repeat that, nine plot arcs. The Old Testament was easier to follow. Am I going to recount all nine arcs in an era of online attention deficit disorder? Oh yeah. Burn the boats.

First, the premise. Check that: among the main players is the Brazilian heartthrob Rodrigo Santoro, as well as Chiwetel Ejiofor, who portrays a stick-figure newlywed with no backstory, except he could be cuckolded by his best friend at any moment. The movie checks in at minutes.

A 10th arc involving an aging lesbian couple was cut for — wait for it — time. In an opening prologue, the British Prime Minister character talks about how he likes to go to the arrivals section at Heathrow and watch all the people re-unite in various degrees of undignified love.

Absolutely no one does this. Settle in! Here are the players. They mourn at her funeral, where the deceased insisted she be sent off to the tunes of the Bay City Rollers. Joanna said Daniel could bring Claudia Schiffer as his date. The two negotiate their grief together as Sam is in love with a year-old chanteuse named — heavy sigh — Joanna.

Sam learns the drums so he can play in her Christmas band. This is right after Daniel has run into Carol, a Claudia Schiffer doppelganger, at the Christmas concert. He is beyond smitten.