Four Christmases Critic Reviews
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Refreshingly tart and lean, forgoing the usual schmaltz and syrup.Read the full review
Crassly enjoyable.Read the full review
The only laughs come from Vaughn, a master of ingratiation. Witherspoon is no Roz Russell or Lucille Ball. But she fills space nicely.Read the full review
We got two gold-record singers and they don't sing? So? We got five Oscar-winning actors, and they don't need to act much.Read the full review
The film has its funny moments, but they are too few to make the holiday excursion worthwhile.Read the full review
Four Christmases is waste of time and a disappointment, but it's also relatively painless.Read the full review
The result is two bad movies in one: a gimmicky romantic comedy, and one of those seasonal headaches that submits loud family dysfunction as a vehicle for Christmas cheer.Read the full review
Oddly misanthropic, occasionally amusing but thoroughly cheerless holiday attraction that is in no way a family film.Read the full review
Four Christmases is essentially "Meet the Parents" quadrupled.Read the full review
Bad enough to create one of the most joyless Christmas movies ever, but then to go for an unearned feel-good ending adds insult to injury.Read the full review
