Jingle Bell Heist

Published November 30, 2025

Film info

Title Jingle Bell Heist
Director Michael Fimognari
Year 2025
Run time 1hr 36m
Genres Romance, Comedy, Crime
Tagline 'Tis the season to give. And take.

Two down-on-their-luck hourly workers team up to rob a posh London department store on Christmas Eve. Will they steal each other’s hearts along the way?

Live blog

Time	Comment
4:29	Peter S would make a very good Scrooge.
10:45	“Can you put something with Housewives on?”
14:20	She just plugged a USB a random stranger gave her into her own laptop.
20:44	Crazy how crazy people get over those must-have toys. Does that still happen?
33:13	Discussing heist plans in a public cafe as per usual.
35:58	“Grandfather magician also a locksmith.”
37:09	Don’t think that’s how 2FA works.
46:16	“I guess I liked that you believed in me, even if it was for being a thief.”
49:45	I didn’t know the top of the Shard lights up like that, so weird.
1:03:04	Archibald Dankworth is an incredible fake name.
1:13:58	Is there a debate around Batman Returns being a Christmas movie too?
1:21:16	Loving the quite useless security guards.
1:26:44	“I spent all morning with my family. This is my holiday.”

Thoughts

I finally made it to watch Jingle Bell Heist after getting distracted by the previous film on the last attempt. This was a bit of a slow starter, it took a while to get going and to really care about these characters to any large degree - despite their situations being quite clearly shouted in your face. But as the heist activities started, it got better and better. The relationship developed, the banter improved, and the twists started coming.

I’m SO annoyed I didn’t see the big safe twist coming until a split second before it happened. It’s been a while since one got me like that. It’s all a bit of nonsense, there are quite a few plot holes that are best not prodded, and Lucy Punch was under-used, but it was Christmassy fun and I ended up loving it.

Rating: 4 / 5