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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Overstuffed, formulaic but very easy to take. Read more
Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader: This carefully observed film has lots of heart. Read more
Nathan Rabin, AV Club: Christmas won't wow anyone with its audacity or originality, but it's bound to make plenty of people happy with its slick, crowd-pleasing familiarity. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: One of those overstaffed, overstuffed 'when do we eat?' holiday dramedies. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: There's so much wrong going on, things start to feel forced. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: A family movie that holds few surprises but an abundance of hope and goodwill. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: Writer-director Preston A. Whitmore II serves up an overstuffed but satisfying Yuletide comedy-drama with a fine cast. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Loretta Devine is a treasure as the no-nonsense mother, and Delroy Lindo is as delightful as ever as her longtime beau -- give these two old pros a whole movie about late-in-life romance and we'd all be happy. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: O matter how silly the situation, each member of the uniformly strong cast creates a nice balance between sentimental and sweet -- which is just how every holiday gathering should feel. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: At two full hours it can feel as exhausting as a holiday dinner with your own family. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: A warm and warmed-over collection of holiday-movie cliches packaged in a movie about a large extended black family. Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: At the multiplex where so many holiday movies feel regifted, This Christmas is a gift. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: What's surprising is how well Whitmore, the director, manages to direct traffic... It's sort of a screwball-comedy effect, but with a heart. Read more
G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle: This Christmas is not your typical family holiday movie, and thank goodness for that. It's warm, witty and alive, with a fantastic cast and a belief in its characters that transcends its formulaic tendencies. Read more
Jason Anderson, Globe and Mail: An incoherent mess in which scenes of teary reconciliations sit uncomfortably next to protracted gags involving catfights, car wrecks and a big bottle of baby oil. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: If the real-life Christmas experience tends too often to be marred by the rude contradiction between expectations and reality, movies like the ultra-bland holiday family movie This Christmas are at least partly to blame. Read more
Trevor Johnston, Time Out: This is good-natured, determinedly aspirational African-American entertainment, but did it have to be quite so heavy on the cliches? Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: There is a familiar quality to the multi-generational family holiday homecoming that nicely blends drama and comedy. It's a cut above the standard heartwarming fare that fills theaters this time of year. Read more
Lael Loewenstein, Variety: A rare holiday treat, a package that's both thoughtfully selected and sure to please its intended recipients. Read more
Aaron Hillis, Village Voice: The cast has spirit, but the dialogue and situations are phonier than the Yule log on TV. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: The movie doesn't idealize, which makes it ideal. Read more