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John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: Instead of a funny and relevant little bromide about capitalism, conformity and forced holiday cheer, the movie is about as fresh as a week-old mug of egg nog. Read more
Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: Even if you believe in Santa, you'll never believe that this is any sort of holiday classic. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: This grim holiday-themed comedy is the movie equivalent of getting socks and underwear for Christmas. Read more
Allison Benedikt, Chicago Tribune: Phony, disingenuous family entertainment, suffocated by its green bean casserole approach to Middle America, spineless cardboard characters and paper-thin plot 'twists.' Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: In any normal year this dire comedy would be the undisputed lump of coal in our psychic stocking, but coming on the heels of Surviving Christmas, it's a close second. Read more
Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle: Filled with overly processed situations it tries to sell with manic energy, Kranks is canned, hammy and rolling as fast as it can. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: I'm making my list of the worst movies of the year and I'm checking it twice, and I hope to find room for this frantically unfunny disaster. Read more
Bob Townsend, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Given the tinsel-thin storyline, the typical seasonal gags only elicit perfunctory laughter. Read more
Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic: As tasteless and stale as last year's cheese log. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Here's a film that says Christmas is a sellout, that your neighbors are morons, and that suburbia is a playground of fascist conformity, and then it concludes that anyone who actually believes that is a heartless Scrooge. Read more
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: A flat parable. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: Joyless and forced. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: In the end -- the beginning and the middle, too -- the spirit of Christmas With the Kranks rings as false as the bell of a shopping-mall Santa. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: It's painful, not to mention flat-out witless, to see two actors this genial play fuddy-duddies who learn that Christmas is coming to their living room... or else. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: A largely mirthless comedy. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: A deadpan little satire by John Grisham has been reinterpreted as a shrill and mean-spirited orgy of banana-peel pranks. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: It's not just that the story is predictable. The very camera angles are predictable. Read more
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: This movie reeks. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: Lockstep suburban conformism enforced with fascist severity is the ugly (but admittedly sometimes funny) joke driving Joe Roth's family comedy. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Flat-footed holiday comedy. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: As with average TV fare, moments of genuine humor are rare, and character development can best be described as perfunctory. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It's a colossal miscalculation. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Purports to kindle the warm glow of love for humankind in our hearts but actually reaffirms that the trappings of the holiday season are all that really matter. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: If you haven't seen enough films featuring shoppers sprinting to snatch the last ham at the grocery store, electric shocks from Christmas lights, and home decorators toppling off the roof, this is the movie for you. Read more
Susan Walker, Toronto Star: Hollywood's version of the annual Hallmark Ho-ho-ho card. It's made to order: just slot in the perennial Mr. Santa Claus himself, Tim Allen, and stir. Read more
Scott Foundas, Variety: An agreeable, if snowflake-thin stocking stuffer faithfully adapted from John Grisham's 2001 bestseller Skipping Christmas. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: A leaden whimsy so heavy it threatens to crash through the multiplex floor. Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: Stinks like the unrefrigerated ham its studio sent me as a promotion several months ago. Read more