Michael Winterbottom, the British auteur best known for sardonic scripts like The Trip and 24 Hour Party People, puts down the dukes for a more sentimental take on Londoners around Guy Fawkes Night. Three sisters’ lives are explored through vignettes of romance, parenthood, and the broad slog of life. In the style of interlocking story weavers like Robert Altman and Paul Thomas Anderson, this subtle study of human behavior is a bittersweet antidote to the sometimes-forced cheer of the holidays. – Lina Fisher
