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Better than the 2006 remake yet not as sharp as the original, this Black Christmas stabs at timely feminist themes but mostly hits on familiar pulp.
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Despite its desperate efforts to justify the homicides, there's nothing remotely innovative or even goofily satirical about it. Dec 18, 2019 | Rating: 0/4 | Full Review…
Despite its desperate efforts to justify the homicides, there's nothing remotely innovative or even goofily satirical about it.
Rex Reed
At its best, "Black Christmas" is a smart alternative to slasher horror, and Takal provides a needed voice in the current conversation. Her message is clear, but her execution needs some work. Dec 17, 2019 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…
At its best, "Black Christmas" is a smart alternative to slasher horror, and Takal provides a needed voice in the current conversation. Her message is clear, but her execution needs some work.
Adam Graham
It has plenty of ideas, but falls short in delivering the scares. Dec 17, 2019 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…
It has plenty of ideas, but falls short in delivering the scares.
Beatrice Loayza
Takal and Wolfe distinguish their film with an in-your-face fury aimed at contemporary campus culture's negligent approach to sexual assault and the ways in which women are forced to deal in its aftermath. Dec 16, 2019 | Full Review…
Takal and Wolfe distinguish their film with an in-your-face fury aimed at contemporary campus culture's negligent approach to sexual assault and the ways in which women are forced to deal in its aftermath.
Angelica Jade Bastién
Fans of the original ... might not love writer-director Sophia Takal's take, but Black Christmas is a fun film that gets its kicks out of literally smashing the patriarchy. Dec 14, 2019 | Full Review…
Fans of the original ... might not love writer-director Sophia Takal's take, but Black Christmas is a fun film that gets its kicks out of literally smashing the patriarchy.
Kimber Myers
It's angry - righteously, deservedly, properly enraged about what one gender in particular has had to put up with for way too long. Dec 14, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
It's angry - righteously, deservedly, properly enraged about what one gender in particular has had to put up with for way too long.
David Fear
We need more feminist genre cinema, but that doesn't mean we have to accept half-baked films like this. Jan 17, 2020 | Rating: 5.5/10 | Full Review…
We need more feminist genre cinema, but that doesn't mean we have to accept half-baked films like this.
Jennifer Heaton
I love the mass murder of a bunch of rapist Kavanaughs as much as anyone, believe me, though I'm not sure the catharsis it proffers is anything but temporary--or, worse, merely palliative. Jan 13, 2020 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
I love the mass murder of a bunch of rapist Kavanaughs as much as anyone, believe me, though I'm not sure the catharsis it proffers is anything but temporary--or, worse, merely palliative.
Walter Chaw
A darkly satisfying festive surprise. ...A rallying cry for all of us to be fighters, to stop just accepting that this is how things are, and to take control of our destiny. Jan 6, 2020 | Full Review…
A darkly satisfying festive surprise. ...A rallying cry for all of us to be fighters, to stop just accepting that this is how things are, and to take control of our destiny.
Joey Keogh
The #MeToo movement was a primal scream that rose up from the throats of women. Black Christmas is an echo of that initial feeling. Jan 3, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
The #MeToo movement was a primal scream that rose up from the throats of women. Black Christmas is an echo of that initial feeling.
Willow Maclay
Into the last act, we're hit with some whopper twists in a final sequence that proves completely unexpected, moderately intriguing and unbelievably ridiculous, all at once. Jan 3, 2020 | Rating: 5/10 | Full Review…
Into the last act, we're hit with some whopper twists in a final sequence that proves completely unexpected, moderately intriguing and unbelievably ridiculous, all at once.
David 'Mad Dog' Bradley
Watching it, I went from bored to confused to occasionally intrigued, but never entertained or scared. Dec 30, 2019 | Full Review…
Watching it, I went from bored to confused to occasionally intrigued, but never entertained or scared.
Mark Kermode
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