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12/10/04
Noel (2004)
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Reviews Counted:12
Fresh:0
Rotten:12
Average Rating:3.1/10
Theatrical Release:Nov 12, 2004 Limited
Synopsis: A first-rate cast comes together for this collection of intertwining tales of lonely New Yorkers reaching out to each other on Christmas Eve. Susan Sarandon plays Rose, a widowed editor who spends... [More]
Starring: Penélope Cruz, Susan Sarandon, Alan Arkin, Paul Walker
Director: Chazz Palminteri
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11/23/04
Top CriticOne of those unpleasant fiascoes meant to lodge a lump in the throat at Christmas, but it only ends up making you want to bludgeon the elves with their own toy-shop hammers.
11/18/04
Top CriticThe nut-ball factor is just too high for these characters.
11/15/04
Top CriticThe kind of sappy, sadness-turns- to-gladness holiday movie that shows up on cable TV this time of year.
11/12/04
Top CriticPalminteri draws some very good performances from his cast -- only to pile on a lot of shameless heart-tugging on top of a contrived script about five New Yorkers facing Christmas Eve alone.
11/12/04
Top CriticThe mawkishness meter is turned up full blast by the time Williams, wearing the hangdog expression he saves for maudlin dramas, shows up out of nowhere as a former priest to save an unhappy Sarandon from jumping into the East River.
11/12/04
Top CriticExcept for die-hard students of extremely bad movies, Noel isn't worth seeing.
11/12/04
Top CriticI can be sentimental under the right circumstances, but the movie is such a calculating tearjerker that it played like a challenge to me.
11/12/04
Top CriticThough clearly meant as a heartwarmer in the long-standing holiday tradition, Chazz Palminteri's film comes off as strange and sour.
11/11/04
Top CriticA handful of competent performances can't keep Noel from pulling its audience through a bleak, cheerless hour and a half.
11/11/04
Top CriticMost of the redemptive notes ring false, as does the mythical Manhattan, where the snow is just too clean and everybody lives around the corner.
11/09/04
Top CriticHubbard's script is so steeped in sludgy sentimentality that the film's early hints of quirkiness quickly give way to heavy-handed faith healing.
10/06/04
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