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 Writer-director Dan Brown's debut feature, Your Lucky Day, elevates a simple concept with palpable tension and intense confrontations. A convenience store at Christmas transforms into a harrowing battlefield when a winning lottery ticket appears, creating an intense thriller full of surprise escalations and propulsive action. It's not just the narrative twists and grim authenticity that make Your Lucky Day appealing, but the Christmas prank's daring commitment to nihilism. A normal night turns out to be anything but for six strangers in a convenience store on Christmas. A criminal, Sterling (Angus Cloud), arrives at the store in a bad mood, as he has just lost valuables to thieves. When a rich man discovers that he just won the $156 million jackpot, Sterling holds him at gunpoint. Rookie cop Cody (Sterling Beaumon) tries to intervene, but fails so spectacularly that it turns into a deadly hostage standoff that also ensnares store owner Amir (Mousa Hussein Kraish) and futur...