The holiday season is rounding down which means I’m finally almost done working through the 2023 Christmas movie schedule. It’s been an adventure and an incredibly fun one. Unsurprisingly, Hallmark has come out on top with an impressive Countdown to Christmas lineup. Not only did they churn out the most holiday movies this year, but I think they released the best one of 2023 too with Round and Round.
The Hanukkah-themed flick follows Rachel (Vic Michaelis), an assistant publisher who is excited to take her boyfriend home to meet her family for the first time and celebrate the seventh night of Hanukkah. Unfortunately, her boyfriend bails, and her day gets progressively worse when the stranger she runs into ruins the sufganiyot she’s been tasked to pick up and shows up at her family’s because he is friends with her grandmother. The real problems start though when Rachel goes to bed only to wake up on the same day. Yep! She’s caught in a time loop! Desperate to get out of it, she leans on Zach (Bryan Greenberg), the same man who keeps running into her loop after loop.
