Jingle Bell Heist (2025, Netflix)

Sophia Martin moves from Philadelphia to London to care for her mother, Rita, who needs surgery the family cannot insure. She works at the department store Sterlings and at a bar, and she starts stealing. Nick O’Connor, a former security consultant, films her taking a diamond dog collar. Maxwell Sterling framed Nick and sent him to prison; Nick wants the money he believes he is owed for his daughter. The two stop blackmailing each other and aim at the store’s Christmas Eve vault. Cynthia Sterling, Maxwell’s wife, looks like a bystander and is not.

The last reel — the second lock, who Sophia’s father is, and what Cynthia put in the vault — is on the ending page. There is no announced sequel. A related search for “Jingle Bell Heist 2” has no studio notice behind it.

Olivia Holt plays Sophia. Connor Swindells plays Nick. Lucy Punch is Cynthia, Peter Serafinowicz is Maxwell, Poppy Drayton is Brianna, Natasha Joseph is Rita, Michael Salami is Ralph, and Ed Kear is Eddie. The full list is on the cast page.

Searches for Connor Swindells’ Christmas coat point at Nick’s outerwear in the London night scenes. I do not have a retail product page that matches that coat, so I am not naming a shop or a price. Filming spots, including the Loughborough Hotel in Brixton, are on the locations page.

Steve Hackman is credited as composer in reporting carried by Wikipedia. A song-by-song breakdown on Vague Visages lists tracks such as Run-D.M.C.’s “Christmas in Hollis” and Low’s “Just Like Christmas.” I am treating that write-up as one song list, not as a label-confirmed album tracklist.

Variety’s Dennis Harvey (1 December 2025) wrote that the intrigue is “not terribly inspired” but handled with panache. TheWrap’s William Bibbiani (26 November 2025) called it “actually very, very good,” above a typical Netflix holiday romance. The Guardian’s Benjamin Lee gave it 3/5 the same day and said it has just enough edge over thinner peers. Those three lines do not average into one verdict. Critic and audience scores above stay in their own rows.

Legal streaming is Netflix in the US and the UK. Age notes are on the parents guide. Other years of “Christmas heist” casting are on the cast comparison.