It ain’t Miracle on 34th Street, but it’s a popcorn flick that has cult classic written all over it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2024

V.N. pays its respect to the cult Holiday classic Home Alone and is easily one of the funniest movies of the year. There are also some heartfelt moments, occasional bits of humanity and a traditional redemption story arc thrown in the blood-filled mix.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 23, 2024

Closing the film with Slade’s “Merry Xmas Everybody” was the perfect ending to a near-perfect film, and it’s definitely a must-see this holiday season.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 3, 2024

Did we need a shallow dive into a deeper, new lore about Santa? No. Do we need the inevitable sequel with Valkyrie Mrs. Claus? Probably not...

| Original Score: C | Jul 3, 2024

What elevates “Violent Night” from a mindless, holiday-themed action film was its ability to balance the violence and the heartwarming emotions.

| Jun 8, 2024

A mean-spirited film with nothing to redeem.

| Oct 4, 2023

It’s brimming with both warmth and cynicism, cementing a Santa perfectly attuned to the times and emblematic of the joy and anguish that pervades this time of year... a new Christmas classic.

| Aug 6, 2023

Violent Night is one of the biggest surprises of the year, instantly becoming a contemporary Christmas classic! David Harbour expertly embodies a shockingly brutal, savage version of Santa Claus that somehow still delivers lovely messages.

| Original Score: A- | Jul 25, 2023

Violent Night is an instant CHRISTMAS CLASSIC. A bloody, gnarly, & goofy time that brings the laughs, the action, & Especially the Christmas magic! David Harbour is the definitive most realistic Santa Claus you could put into a movie

| Jul 25, 2023

No sane person will consider Violent Night a perennial classic, but Harbour inspires enough ho-ho-hos and cheeky holiday mayhem to warrant a watch.

| May 26, 2023

If there’s one thing about Harbour that has always sung, it’s the charisma he can generate with just about material and any actor on screen. He’s also a very big man, standing tall and making a dad bod seem more desirable than Zac Efron ever could.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 8, 2023

If I want a bad Santa, I’ll watch Bad Santa. That’s not to say there isn’t some measure of worthy seasonal jeer in Violent Night.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 5, 2023

It’s not a holiday classic like Die Hard, but it is a decent temporary remedy for the mandatory holiday cheer.

| Jan 27, 2023

"Violent Night" is as-advertised. It’s more vicious than one might expect from this action comedy, but it starts at a high-level of foulness when Santa upchucks on someone and just continues on from there.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 26, 2023

Fun take on Santa Claus but we have to hold Harbour up to Billy Bob standards.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jan 16, 2023

Excessively violent, laced with a thick vein of jet-black humor, bolstered by a formidable turn from Harbour, and packed to the rafters with hard-hitting scraps, Violent Night knows exactly what it wants to be, but doesn’t really try to be anything else.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 11, 2023

David Harbour owns the screen as the at-first grumpy but still very caring and ultimately badass Mr. Claus.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 6, 2023

“Die Hard,” and Michael Dougherty’s “Krampus,” meets “Bad Santa,” with full shot of Christmas adrenaline.

| Jan 1, 2023

An excellent Harbour leads the cast, and a terrific Legui-zamo makes for a perfect antagonist.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 28, 2022

It’s heartwarming violence, a very merry massacre, and holly jolly hammer time but it also put me in the Christmas spirit.

| Dec 28, 2022