Chicago Tribune
Allison Benedikt |
6 |
As light, fluffy, cockle-warming holiday entertainment, this thing is pretty sweet. |
E!
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0 |
Stuffed with seasonal clichés, and, worse yet, a useless love story, this is a total snow job. |
filmcritic.com
David Levine |
6 |
...this film won't even survive long enough to see turkey day. But, it's just that kind of attitude that makes this spiteful little movie work. |
New York Post
Lou Lumenick |
0 |
If Hans Blix is still searching for bombs, he should check out Surviving Christmas, a crass, shrill and laughless disaster of a holiday comedy with a desperately mugging Ben Affleck that should be banned under the Geneva Convention. |
TV Guide
Angel Cohn |
4 |
It's a lot like a holiday spent with the family: It all starts out pleasant enough, but soon degenerates into awkwardness and furtive watch-checking. |
Reel
Sarah Chauncey |
5 |
Every so often, a holiday movie comes along that is destined to be a classic. Surviving Christmas isn't one of them. |
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager |
3 |
A grating tribute to checkbook cheer, that warm and fuzzy feeling achieved from buying and buying and buying. |
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
0 |
There are no survivors here. |
New York Times
Stephen Holden |
3 |
As you watch the comedy lurch along, the woozy, sinking sensation it produces suggests a movie slapped together after the consumption of far too many gallons of that spiked eggnog. |
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Crust |
4 |
...one of those utterly forgettable yuletide movies fated to forever run out-of-season on various cable channels. |
People
Leah Rozen |
4 |
...barely survivable... |
LA Weekly
Scott Foundas |
3 |
...a mirthless holiday turkey... |
Village Voice
Jessica Winter |
1 |
This ghastly comedy emits the subliminal whine of a sucking chest wound... |
Onion AV Club
Scott Tobias |
4 |
...a sloppy comedy... |
Maxim
Paul Ulane |
4 |
...it stuffs Ben Affleck down your chimney two months ahead of schedule and somehow manages to make premature Christmas cheer even more obnoxious. |
Premiere
Angel Cohn |
5 |
There are some holly-jolly laughs here, but Surviving Christmas couldn't hold a candle to a holiday comedy classic like A Christmas Story. |
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt |
5 |
There are a few amusing moments, helped by subdued performances from Affleck and Gandolfini, but this is no Bad Santa despite its obvious ambition to play similar holiday tricks. |
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