Holiday Inn Reviews
EmanuelLevy.Com
One of Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire's most enjoyable and most commercially popular musicals, featuring Irving Berlin's iconic, Oscar-winning ballad, White Christmas.
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| Original Score: B+
Common Sense Media
Classic musical with some controversial material.
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| Original Score: 4/5
TIME Magazine
Top CriticCrosby's easy, casual banter is just the right foil for Astaire's precision acrobatics, his wry, offbeat humor.
Film4
Not the best film for either of the film's stars, but Astaire proves that he can dance even without Ginger.
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| Original Score: 3/5
TV Guide's Movie Guide
The film's highlight is a bang-up July 4th 'Let's Say It with Firecrackers' that finds Astaire in fine form.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Loaded with a wealth of songs, it's meaty, not too kaleidoscopic and yet closely knit for a compact 100 minutes of tiptop filmusical entertainment.
Holiday Inn offers a reason for celebration not printed in red ink on the calendar.
| Original Score: 4/5
The Irving Berlin score, including 'Easter Parade' and 'Let's Say It with Firecrackers' (which gives Fred his best moment) makes up for the thin story.
Kansas City Kansan
Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. Want more? Stir in the first singing of Irving Berlin's 'White Christmas' and 'Happy Holidays.'
| Original Score: A
Decent Films Guide
True to type, Crosby plays nice and Astaire shallow… The story writes itself, careful never to get in the way of big production numbers for every holiday on the calendar.
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| Original Score: B
Film Threat
Call it old-fashioned or old Hollywood fluff, Holiday Inn is a sweet, pleasant slice of another time in pop entertainment.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Great songs and stars and a pretty good script, too
| Original Score: 4/5
Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
One of Astaire's low points, but with a sensational 4th of July dance number.
| Original Score: 3/5
BBC
Despite not being the success it could have been, this can still inspire a festive glow.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Flick Filosopher
Holiday Inn, is, of course, filled with the kind of pretty Christmas songs and picture-postcard scenes of snow and horse-drawn sleighs that make for beloved holiday movies. But there's also some darkness lurking here.
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| Original Score: 9/10
