Almost Christmas isn't a brilliant film, though it's an entertaining and satisfying one.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 1, 2020

When Talbert allows his cast to let loose and have fun, that affection reverberates from the screen. When he decides to dial it back and take things seriously is when we run into trouble.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 11, 2020

You'll get through this movie and laugh a little but really going with the cast that's there you should be laughing way more.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 11, 2020

Warmly familiar and not without a notable degree of poignancy, it's disappointing to see glimpses of the strength this scenario and cast could have commanded if Talbert's script didn't circulate almost exclusively in obvious beats.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 3, 2019

A lot of the jokes land and it's overall a cheerful fun movie for the holidays.

| Original Score: B | Apr 2, 2019

1000-percent ridiculous.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 2, 2019

Boring. it's just boring. A great cast, but nothing unique out of this movie. I dreaded even having to talk about it...

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 2, 2019

It's a nice Christmas movie, and man is it good to see Danny Glover back on the big screen.

| Original Score: 3.25/5 | Oct 16, 2018

I'm a bit of a sucker for ensemble romantic comedies, and "Almost Christmas" had enough rom-com going on to win me over.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 24, 2018

At the time of year when you've already spent money you didn't want to spend, then perhaps save what you have left and miss this one.

| May 9, 2018

What's there is a well-crafted holiday picture, universal in appeal and scope that lights up laughter and maybe earns a few tears.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 5, 2017

Almost Christmas follows a series of predictable twists, that doesn't negate its charm.

| Original Score: B | Apr 12, 2017

You can't fault the film for its efficiency. Each of these idylls is threatened by a problem that will be solved within a reasonably tidy running time.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 27, 2016

There is a bit of holiday charm in this film, and a story about family coming together after a big loss, but it is buried in a series of slapstick situations and heavy-handed holiday schmaltz.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Dec 12, 2016

Aside from the traditional spaghetti set-up of conflicts that will unfurl and be resolved with good cheer around the turkey, David E Talbert's film has a rather moving backstory about the death of the family matriarch the previous year.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 29, 2016

Okay, we have seen worse Christmas movies.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 28, 2016

Maybe not a Christmas cracker, but it's warming festive fun, nonetheless.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 24, 2016

Almost unbearable would be a better title.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 24, 2016

Movies where a large family gathers to celebrate Christmas only have to nail one scene, and Almost Christmas does, more or less.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2016

Almost Christmas also follows that oft-tried but rarely true formula of the ensemble comedy, whereby a half-dozen storylines are crammed into a single feature film in the hopes of covering as much thematic ground as possible.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 18, 2016