Average Rating: 5.9/10
Reviews Counted: 82
Fresh: 45 | Rotten: 37
This Christmas features strong performances and a sharp portrayal of family dynamics, but relies too heavily on holiday movie clichés.
Average Rating: 6.1/10
Critic Reviews: 24
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 9
This Christmas features strong performances and a sharp portrayal of family dynamics, but relies too heavily on holiday movie clichés.
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Upon gathering together under one roof for the first time in seven years, an estranged family celebrating Christmas rediscovers long-forgotten bonds in this holiday family reunion drama starring Delroy Lindo, Regina King, and Mekhi Phifer. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
Nov 21, 2007 Wide
Nov 11, 2008
$49.1M
Sony Pictures
All Critics (87) | Top Critics (25) | Fresh (48) | Rotten (38) | DVD (7)
o matter how silly the situation, each member of the uniformly strong cast creates a nice balance between sentimental and sweet -- which is just how every holiday gathering should feel.
I could actually see this becoming kind of a minor perennial during the holidays.
If the real-life Christmas experience tends too often to be marred by the rude contradiction between expectations and reality, movies like the ultra-bland holiday family movie This Christmas are at least partly to blame.
An incoherent mess in which scenes of teary reconciliations sit uncomfortably next to protracted gags involving catfights, car wrecks and a big bottle of baby oil.
This carefully observed film has lots of heart.
This Christmas is not your typical family holiday movie, and thank goodness for that. It's warm, witty and alive, with a fantastic cast and a belief in its characters that transcends its formulaic tendencies.
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A happy Christmas package that more or less ignores the fact that it's a black American family story
A little too soapy for my tastes.
Quite convincing in conveying the feeling of a real family, and in generating the requisite chemistry or antipathy as called for by their dysfunctional characters' dire circumstances.
A nearly XXXmas, juiced up with jazz, jive and one secretive sister's main squeeze, her vibrator hidden away in mama's bedroom drawer.
Family holiday dramedy has some iffy content.
If you're looking for a film that celebrates the holiday spirit, This Christmas would be my first suggestion because it's heartfelt and not too sweet.
Here's a family you'll want to visit for the holidays. Maybe you'll event want to stay through New Year's.
...there's a genuine feeling of a real family's real Christmas, with all its heat as well as warmth, the kind of thing that's missing from the plastic platitudes of holiday junk like Fred Claus...
While formula is still the same, it's quite amusing, romantic, and a delightful holiday treat for a family to enjoy.
This is a very entertaining movie, despite all the inplausablities, and doesn't get down to the insipidness of most Holiday family outings.
If you like schmaltzy, music-saturated family movies, This Christmas will set all the right bells jingling.
"Destined to become a Yuletide classic, " claim the press notes. Well, they do say Christmas is a time for dreaming.
It was okay for a Christmas movie. Gets a bit sentimental at the end, but I think that's true of most for this genre. On the whole I enjoyed it and it was nice to see a Christmas movie focusing on an African American family.The one thing that really bothered me and is the reason i took a half star off my rating, is
January 25, 2008Super Reviewer
Too much Family Drama Movie for me.
December 11, 2009
Super Reviewer
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