With a sweet ending, underneath the killings, It's A Wonderful Knife has a rather wholesome message about self-acceptance and self-love.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 22, 2024

It’s A Wonderful Knife is a competent gateway horror film for teenagers looking to dip their toes into the genre, with enough heart and warmth to satiate those looking for a little more festive feelings in their holiday slashers.

| Jul 9, 2024

It’s a Wonderful Knife is a wonderful dash through the snow.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 2, 2024

Dull, derivative and woefully uninspired, this horror comedy is far from being the sharpest knife in the drawer, often feeling like holidazzle queerspolitation with its one dimensional characters and lazy plotting.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 12, 2024

IT’S A WONDERFUL KNIFE is a slasher with a heart of gold.

| Jan 1, 2024

Although it doesn't take itself too seriously, "It's a Wonderful Knife"  is a quick entertaining watch to pass the time

| Dec 31, 2023

It’s a Wonderful Knife has a lot to like about it, and takes a good stab at gory guffaws, however don’t go in expecting a festive horror classic ala the original Black Christmas.

| Dec 28, 2023

A confusing, unclever script leads this movie on a downward spiral. The scares lack suspense and the jokes do not land in this lackluster horror comedy.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 20, 2023

This is one spiffy-looking picture. The lighting is incredible, with several sections going full Christmas light crazy with color. It is all the better to see the seasonal gore effects, which are elaborate enough to bring lots of joy.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Dec 14, 2023

I enjoyed this film for what it was, and I do think it had an interesting perspective, but I do feel like a lot of it was rushed through.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 14, 2023

Although the two leads and Katherine Isabelle do decent work, MacIntyre's flat direction and the screenplay's reliance on Scream/Scream 2 homages prove underwhelming. Long's toothy performance is entertaining, though!

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 12, 2023

Unfortunately, Tyler MacIntyre’s film fails to deliver on its premise. As a comedy, the laughs are few and far between. And as a horror movie, the scares are minimal and the kills are uninspired.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 11, 2023

A mindless Christmas film that's witless, clunky and lacking in taste.

| Original Score: C | Dec 9, 2023

Kennedy’s generous screenplay is filled with some gruesome moments but also some rather sweet and sour ones, from Capra’s meaning of life musings to the power of governing by fear and the life saving power of finding that kinship you never saw coming.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 8, 2023

The design of the killer is fantastic, Justin Long shines as a spray-tanned turd, and the storyline has at least one solid detour. The biggest letdown is that It’s a Wonderful Knife has no memorable kills, and any big reveal is nothing short of apparent.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 8, 2023

This has fun with its premise but fumbles the execution by not fully leaning into the slasher genre nor embracing the comedy it so wants to provide. This is a film of almosts: it’s almost gruesomely gory, almost smartly witty, and almost enjoyable.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 7, 2023

Sometimes cheap but largely cheerful, this is a fun stocking-filler for horror fans — with plenty of heart to pump all that blood.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2023

But despite a few fun kills, a promising premise, and a few performances that really hit the right tone of the film, it doesn’t live up to those ambitions, a redundant and contrived script holding it back from true slasher glory.

| Dec 4, 2023

Despite a killer performance from Justin Long and a mostly fun mashup of slasher tropes and seasonal flair, the concept barely hangs together and this cinematic tree topples fairly easily.

| Original Score: C+ | Dec 3, 2023

[D]espite the movie clocking at just 87 minutes long, It’s a Wonderful Knife runs out of steam before it even reaches the finale.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 1, 2023