...erratic yet mostly watchable...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 31, 2021

Tasteless, miserable and utterly flaccid, Surviving Christmas truly lives up to its reputation as the last turkey in the shop.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 23, 2019

In 2003, moviegoers received a gift in the form of Bad Santa; the following year, they got a lump of coal in the shape of a Bad Movie.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 29, 2018

Surviving Christmas is a mediocre ninety-minute sit-com; if you're looking for wit and humor, stay away.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Mar 30, 2011

You'll be lucky if you survive this dumb movie.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 28, 2010

Ben Affleck needs to stop making movies.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 29, 2009

Pique on earth and ill will toward men permeate this mirthless comedy.

| Mar 5, 2007

The movie is dead from the outset given the artificiality of the premise about a lonely rich guy who hires the folks living in his boyhood home to be his family for the holidays.

Full Review | Mar 5, 2007

You may not survive watching it.

| Dec 30, 2006

The moral is that money can indeed buy happiness.

| Jun 24, 2006

Despite the talent involved, this fails to raise so much as a smile, let alone laughs and Christmas cheer.

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

If you thought the Ron Howard Grinch movie was the worst excuse for a holiday movie in recent memory, then look out: this one's worse.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 15, 2005

A colossal turkey.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 4, 2004

All that's vaguely funny or Christmassy about this are the sweaty beads of desperation which string together like fairy-lights across Affleck's forehead as he hammers out one lame gag after another.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 30, 2004

Surviving Christmas can't decide whether it wants to be naughty or nice and the end result is a sometime funny story, but with a severe multiple personality disorder .

| Original Score: 1.5 | Nov 30, 2004

Affleck gives one of the clammiest, most panicked performances I've ever seen. The movie is drenched in his flop-sweat.

Full Review | Nov 8, 2004

The premise has potential, as does the casting, but the script is so mind-numbingly lazy that it insults its audience at every turn.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 7, 2004

With the release of this wretched film, star Ben Affleck takes one more ragged step in what seems his death march from leading man to celebrity game show guest.

| Nov 5, 2004

Easily the worst Christmas movie of all time, and a surefire contender for the worst film of 2004.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Nov 2, 2004

Ben Affleck's Christmas "comedy" is a misfire under the mistletoe, even with a germ of a classic tale hidden under the ugly wrapping.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 1, 2004