I don't particularly care for the doll-like animation, but there's a couple notions in this movie that I like: one, that not everybody likes Christmas, and two, that "naughty" is subjective.

| Jan 17, 2025

The stories are all individually charming, but overly familiar animation and underwhelming character-design blunt the effect. 

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 10, 2024

Schmaltz-heavy and wishlist-thin, That Christmas offers very little and doesn’t even have the self-awareness to include the receipt.

| Original Score: D | Dec 3, 2024

It’s all more or less sufferable, and it may well keep young children quiet at Christmas… but we surely needed a higher joke content.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 27, 2024

That Christmas is like a neutered Motherland, or Pixar but lobotomised and dressed by Boden.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 23, 2024

... The writing’s sentimental and/or smirky longueurs are remedied by the animation itself, whose cosy charm has a distinctly British sensibility – from the architecture to the landscape and even the colour palettes, everything is satisfyingly just right.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 21, 2024

The film looks terrific... And while the story itself might not hold any surprises, it’s big-hearted and generous with its happy endings.

| Oct 21, 2024

Adapted from a trio of picture books by “Love Actually” scribe Richard Curtis, the feel-good family film is chock-full of kids second-guessing their worth — and not just in the naughty-or-nice department either.

| Oct 21, 2024

For all its narrative preoccupations, That Christmas rarely feels like it’s shortchanging any set of characters or their arcs.

| Oct 21, 2024

The old chestnuts hold true for this one, the goofy holiday puns: it’s a gift well worth unwrapping and sharing with the ones you love most.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 21, 2024

An ordinary feature that could have been extraordinary as a series of three shorts.

| Oct 19, 2024