Kate (Emilia Clarke) suffered a huge health scare last Christmas, so huge that she required a heart transplant. Since then she has become lost. Estranged from her family, on her last warning at work and running out of friends prepared to put her up for a night. Then she meets Tom (Henry Golding), an enigmatic bike messenger who starts to open up her eyes to the joy of helping others.

Last Christmas is unashamedly a Christmas movie. Ostensibly it is a romantic comedy but at its core it is about the love of our fellow human beings living in this world together and inclusivity. It takes a broken woman and repairs her by showing her connection to others and how she can help them to help herself. It veers into cliche and verges on being utter bobbins but it wins you over with real heart (pun intended).

In the main this is due to its lead pairing. Emilia Clarke must be the most radiant actress on screen at the moment with a smile that could light up the national grid. Whilst Henry Golding has real chemistry with her and they make an iconic romantic comedy pairing, even if they aren’t in the strictest sense.

Oddly, given one of its biggest advertising strategies is to point out that the film is loosely inspired by the Wham song and features their music it is one of the films biggest failures. At no point does the music feel thematically linked, certainly not in the same way as this years excellent Blinded By The Light. It is simply there in most scenes and nothing more.

Give it a chance and you may feel enriched. Don’t think too hard about it’s connection to the music though.