This exhausting parade of white people's Christmas problems offers only banality, blandness, and the most desperately unfunny sitcom hijinks imaginable.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 4, 2020

Allen was a bit low energy for my liking but actually came off better in his more sincere scenes towards the end of the film.

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Sep 5, 2020

We loved him as Santa. We loved her as the hooker with a heart. We love Christmas. ... After seeing Christmas with the Kranks, all I can say is it put me in one kranky mood for the holidays over such a waste of talent!

| Nov 7, 2019

Forget the 12 Days of Christmas; there are at least 12,000 ways that 2004's fascistic Christmas with the Kranks earns the honor as the worst Yuletide film ever made.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 29, 2018

Unoriginal, unfunny slapstick holiday fare.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 22, 2010

Christmas With The Kranks is the sort of film that leaves you thinking Ebenezer Scrooge might have had the right idea about the festive season.

| Jul 20, 2009

A grueling experience.

| Apr 29, 2009

The notion of bullying people into succumbing into the trappings of Christmas does not necessarily represent goodwill to all, and while the situations present good comic opportunities, the film ends up feeling rather manipulative and sugary.

| Oct 18, 2008

Some pathetically predictable plot twists and syrupy sentimentality, which could only amuse a five year-old, lead the Kranks back to their materialistic senses in time for a Kodak moment which shouts a rather shallow Merry Capitalism to all!

| Original Score: 0/4 | Jun 1, 2007

A more sweet than sour satire that sets its sight on nasty but lavishly honey coated underpinnings of the holiday season.

| Feb 8, 2007

In any normal year this dire comedy would be the undisputed lump of coal in our psychic stocking, but coming on the heels of Surviving Christmas, it's a close second.

| Jan 6, 2007

There is not a single lifelike character in the entire picture.

| Original Score: 0/4 | May 26, 2006

[A] comedy so broad it barely dents its targets and a patronising moral conclusion that goes against everything its protagonists originally stood for.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 1, 2006

This isn't a wonderful life: It looks pretty hellish.

Full Review | Sep 26, 2005

It is a perfectly fine, inoffensive family comedy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 16, 2005

What better way is there to get into a festive spirit than having it crammed down your throat?

| Original Score: F | Apr 13, 2005

...almost had me convinced to convert to Judaism to avoid having to go through anything ever again that even remotely resembles this movie.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 1, 2005

Curtis is easily the most talented actress of her generation to never garner an Oscar nomination. Unfortunately, if all she keeps doing is gifting trash like this with her presence then that's the way it will always be.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 18, 2004

Rotten Eggnog

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Dec 17, 2004

Humbug. American families deserve a better effort than this.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Dec 15, 2004