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

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

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

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

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

If one were to dwell on the logic of the story, the film would crumble.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 24, 2004

anything, all it proved was the accuracy of one of the words in the title, for surviving this movie is far and away the biggest test a person could face.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 23, 2004

Surviving Christmas is about as funny as a rubber crutch for Tiny Tim.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 22, 2004

There's a lot to not buy in Surviving Christmas. I recommend not buying.

| Oct 22, 2004

Maybe the worst thing that can be said for Surviving Christmas is that it doesn't succeed even on its humble level of aspiration.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 22, 2004

Not since Scrooge got a look at Christmas future have the holidays seemed so shudderingly depressing.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 22, 2004

Is it just me, or does anyone else think it odd Dreamworks is releasing a Christmas movie before Halloween?

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 22, 2004

Bear in mind the Yuletide lesson learned by every kid with an earnest aunt: Some presents look a whole lot like punishments.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 22, 2004

Major stinker. We're talking hold your nose as you walk past the theater.

Full Review | Original Score: D | Oct 22, 2004

Though introduced as a dark comedy, the movie quickly resorts to forced Hollywood humbuggery.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 22, 2004

The surprisingly effective bleak humor earned scene by scene in Surviving Christmas reveals the proper formula that Affleck abandoned after Good Will Hunting.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 22, 2004

It's just in time for Halloween, and it is a scary movie. Unfortunately it's supposed to be a comedy.

| Oct 22, 2004

Surviving Christmas is exactly what's wrong with Hollywood

| Original Score: .5/4 | Oct 22, 2004

This latest movie is absolutely awesome in its relentless mediocrity.

| Oct 21, 2004