Miracle on 34th Street is the gift that keeps on giving.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 21, 2022

Director George Seaton's popular and perennial Thanksgiving and Christmas classic holiday film was a dramatic comedy-fantasy about the commercialization of Santa Claus (Kris Kringle) and Christmas itself. The sentimental and appealing

| Original Score: A+ | Oct 12, 2022

A sentimental, heartwarming piece, designed to be a fluffy bit of yuletide entertainment.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 22, 2022

For those looking for a strong and wholesome holiday special, it is hard to find much better than Miracle on 34th Street.

| Original Score: A | Aug 28, 2022

“Miracle on 34th Street” is a nice mix of holiday sentimentality (in a good way) and genuine feel-goodness.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 24, 2022

One of the Holy Trinity of Yuletide films -- the others being, of course, It's a Wonderful Life and A Christmas Story -- this is one of those timeless classics that never wears out its welcome, no matter how many holiday seasons one has spent watching it.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 22, 2021

It is light, it is charming, it is delightfully funny and completely captivating. It is all that, and something more.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 11, 2015

A Christmas season evergreen.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 4, 2013

The original (and best) version of the cockle-warming tale of a man who claims to be the real-life Santa Claus.

| Dec 4, 2013

What is interesting about Miracle on 34th Street is how it acknowledges the cynicism of the season.

| Dec 4, 2013

The acting is superb all around. The script is lovely, good spirited and perfect viewing for the Christmas season.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 4, 2013

A surefire, brightly cynical bit of whimsy.

| Dec 4, 2013

[A] heartwarming piece of Hollywood comedy-fantasy.

| Dec 3, 2013

After It's A Wonderful Life, there really is no better flick to curl up with over the festive season.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 3, 2013

Children may prefer the newer, more obvious version, but parents will warm to this utterly beguiling original.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 3, 2013

Yes, Miracle On 34th Street is pure Hollywood hokum... But the film is pretty savvy too, getting a jump on mounting anxieties about the post-war cult of consumerism.

| Original Score: A- | Dec 3, 2013

Miracle on 34th Street isn't great art or high comedy, but it is good entertainment.

| Jan 23, 2013

One of the few perfect and genuinely emotional Christmas movies that will live on forever...

| Dec 17, 2012

Decades after it was made, this fable, featuring Edmund Gwenn's Oscar-winning role as Santa Claus, remains one of the most enchanting Christmas movies.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 13, 2011

Classic holiday movie for the whole family.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 26, 2010