This family comedy finds unearned laughs in old women and dog flatulence.

| Original Score: D+ | Sep 7, 2011

Jon Taylor Thomas' yule tale charming for tweens.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2011

An innocuously entertaining comedy...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 24, 2010

Um filme natalino que advoga a eficcia da mentira e do egosmo como formas de ser bem sucedido.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 19, 2008

It gets off to a grating start, but this slight comedy eventually finds its feet and delivers a holiday-themed package made up in equal parts of mild laughs and sweet-as-sweet-can-be sentiment.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 16, 2008

Arrogance gives way to humility, making this an appropriate, if thoroughly cliched, Christmas morality tale that's sugar-coated with an attractive cast spouting sitcom-quality dialogue.

Full Review | Apr 16, 2008

I'll Be Home for Christmas asks the impossible of us.

| Mar 28, 2006

None of the cast comes off well, but they have little to work with, since the dialogue sounds like it was made up on the spot and performed without rehearsal.

Full Review | Jul 21, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 17, 2005

It's the cinematic equivalent of a flavored rice cake -- palatable while you're chewing and completely forgotten 10 minutes later.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 20, 2003

Hurrah -- let's teach our kids that if you look good and are skilled at making up convincing lies, everyone will love you.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 8, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 8, 2002

A Christmas turkey.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 19, 2002

Surprisingly engaging.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 14, 2001

Bah, humbug!

| Original Score: 3/10 | Jan 1, 2000

If not for the movie's heart being in the right place, this lame teen road picture might be truly insufferable.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

I'll Be Home for Christmas will appeal to people who fail to care if nothing good happens in a movie.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 1, 2000

The film equivalent of easy listening.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

The ultimate insult to a film-goer!

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

It's all by-the-numbers stuff!

| Jan 1, 2000