Christmas tearjerker has mature themes, some sex.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 19, 2017

I had a very hard time displaying malice to this.

| Apr 29, 2009

Pleasantly watchable.

| Mar 1, 2007

A film about folks celebrating Christmas together is about as interesting and carries as much dramatic thrust as the 1989 Christmas reunion video immortalized on Uncle Fred's camcorder.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 6, 2006

The sentiments are right on the money, but the execution never quite filled me with holiday cheer.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 20, 2005

There's nothing at all surprising about Noel, except for the fact that it was ever made.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 19, 2005

If you are looking for a Christmas film that is unconventional, that has a lot of heart without wallowing in sentimentality, this is a good bet.

| Original Score: B | Nov 16, 2005

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 10, 2004

A holiday gift wrapped in sadness -- but tied tenderly with hope.

| Nov 30, 2004

Three tear-jerking stories about faith, love and the redemptive spiritual power of a frosty Christmas Eve

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 24, 2004

Fits snugly into the 'Christmas movie' canon by tapping into familiar problems, tugging at the heartstrings and stirring your tired soul.

| Nov 23, 2004

One of those unpleasant fiascoes meant to lodge a lump in the throat at Christmas, but it only ends up making you want to bludgeon the elves with their own toy-shop hammers.

| Nov 18, 2004

Noel delivers two astonishing scenes of love and forgiveness that will take your breath away and are perfectly in tune with the miraculous nature of Christmas.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 16, 2004

The nut-ball factor is just too high for these characters.

Full Review | Nov 15, 2004

I can think of 59,054,087 people who are intellectually deprived enough to buy into “Noel.”

Full Review | Nov 13, 2004

The kind of sappy, sadness-turns- to-gladness holiday movie that shows up on cable 온라인카지노추천 this time of year.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Nov 12, 2004

The all-star cast do their best, but the individual stories are so truncated that they can't do much in the way of giving their characters real emotional depth.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Nov 12, 2004

Palminteri draws some very good performances from his cast -- only to pile on a lot of shameless heart-tugging on top of a contrived script about five New Yorkers facing Christmas Eve alone.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 12, 2004

Santa discontinued that whole coal-in-the-stocking thing a while back. Now, he brings movies like this one when you're bad.

| Original Score: D | Nov 12, 2004

The mawkishness meter is turned up full blast by the time Williams, wearing the hangdog expression he saves for maudlin dramas, shows up out of nowhere as a former priest to save an unhappy Sarandon from jumping into the East River.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 12, 2004