| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 10, 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

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

Full Review | Nov 15, 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

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

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

I can be sentimental under the right circumstances, but the movie is such a calculating tearjerker that it played like a challenge to me.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 12, 2004

Except for die-hard students of extremely bad movies, Noel isn't worth seeing.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/4 | Nov 12, 2004

Though clearly meant as a heartwarmer in the long-standing holiday tradition, Chazz Palminteri's film comes off as strange and sour.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 11, 2004

A handful of competent performances can't keep Noel from pulling its audience through a bleak, cheerless hour and a half.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 11, 2004

Most of the redemptive notes ring false, as does the mythical Manhattan, where the snow is just too clean and everybody lives around the corner.

| Nov 9, 2004

Noel manages to get considerable mileage out of a series of unpredictable and nutty spiritual flights of fancy.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 29, 2004

Hubbard's script is so steeped in sludgy sentimentality that the film's early hints of quirkiness quickly give way to heavy-handed faith healing.

Full Review | Oct 6, 2004