The plot is just too pedestrian, the writing just too limp, and most of the characters just too boring for this to be anything more than a modestly entertaining diversion.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 11, 2006

It's hard not to hope things work out for everyone, even though you know perfectly they will.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 17, 2006

The path of true love may not be smooth but it is predictable in Christmas in the Clouds, a wisp of a movie set in a Utah ski resort run by a Native American tribe.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 16, 2006

Kate Montgomery's agreeably schmaltzy rom-com tempers its near terminal folksiness with stereotype-tweaking irony.

| Feb 14, 2006

While you may have seen the story before, the offbeat characters and the movie location make you feel like you're treading new ground.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 3, 2006

While Vahle and Tosca are the most attractive people onscreen, they are the least interesting characters.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 13, 2006

There are few highs and lows. And after a while all this middle-of-the road blandness wears out its welcome.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 27, 2005

A spin on familiar material, it's aimed at those who like their movies on the warm side.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 27, 2005

While it's understandable some might appreciate Christmas in the Clouds merely for what it attempts to be, it's inexplicable to extol the film on that basis alone.

| Dec 23, 2005

... a welcome alternative to big studio family films filled with squealing kids, body functions and pratfalls.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Dec 14, 2005

Sweet, charming, romantic, and likeable.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 14, 2005

Amiable and frivolous, Christmas in the Clouds works mostly because of an appealing cast and an attractive setting.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 10, 2005

Not quite laugh-out-loud funny, but pleasant.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 9, 2005

A good-natured indie that's been kicking around the festival circuit since 2001, and is finally getting a much-deserved distribution.

| Original Score: B | Dec 8, 2005

Christmas in the Clouds won't knock your socks off, but it's so old-fashioned and low-key that it sticks out from the holiday movie pack.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 8, 2005

Although nearly every aspect of the plot is predictable, Christmas in the Clouds produces a delightful surprise: a warm glow that you take home with you.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 8, 2005

This is a Hallmark movie with high production values -- and so what? It's gently funny and genuinely good-hearted.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

With its schmaltzy romance, slapdash mistaken identity and heartwarming finale, Christmas in the Clouds belongs on 'Lifetime.'

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 6, 2005

A holiday charmer involving mistaken identity, Native American enterprise, and critter-free gourmet cookery.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 2, 2005

This all-too-predictable comedy-drama of misunderstandings, which was featured in the 2001 Sundance Film Festival and has been in limbo up until now, is not much different from a typical television movie made for the Lifetime cable channel.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 2, 2005