Mirko Bozic

This is period crime's equivalent of Carrie Bradshaw: shallow plots are merely an excuse for an endless sequence of sparkly 1920s fashion, with Fisher depicted as the ultimate flapper wiyh a gold gun. As a character, she's nearly intolerably stereotypical: even at home, she's always dressed up for dancing and here pajama looks like something a Geisha would wear. Add lots of promiscuity, and inability to speak without sounding like an overly enthusiastic hot line employee. Other women around her are reduced to shy, conservative maids or prude, wrinkled frumps (her aunt is even called Prudence). She's desperately hard to get and all self-sufficient though someone else is doing her cooking and cleaning, and the men in her life are merely a necessity, also to fund her lifestyle. Just like Bradshaw, men are named as carricatures, her butler being called Mr. Butler. This is the living proof o reverse sexism, and some plots are obvious knock-offs of Agatha Christie. If you want really good period whodunnits, Poirot and Miss Marple are the perfect fit. Of course, Miss Marple can't fit into Miss Fisher's slinky dresses, so fortunately she doesn't need fashion to convince us her she's got a working brain underneath her bonnet.

This was exactly what a classic Christmas flick is supposed to be: cheesy, emotional, full of cringy cliches and a romantic plot that's going in the right and predictable direction from the very start. The distinctive characteristic of it all that it evolves around a gay couple, so finally the LGBT community gets their own guilty pleasure movie. It's light, the guys are hot and the family is over-the-top with literally scheming for the two men to get their happy ending. Ah yes, and there's a big Christmas tree, with Jeniffer Coolidge. It's the very definition of a feel-good flick, though the chemistry doesn't seem to work the way it should, or at least the way everyone insisted it would.

It's not good enough to throw you off your feet, but not nearly bad enough to make you switch the channel. A light-hearted movie about the issues of rich white people filled with feelgood comedy.