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Four Christmases

2008

Seth Gordon

Reese Witherspoon, Vince Vaughn, Robert Duvall, Mary Steenburgen ...

4.4

5,083

Comedy. Drama. Romance A couple struggle to visit all four of their divorced parents on Christmas Day. When upscale, happily unmarried San Francisco couple Kate and Brad find themselves socked in by fog on Christmas morning, their exotic vacation plans morph into the family-centric holiday they had, until now, gleefully avoided. Out of obligation-and unable to escape-they trudge to not one, not two, but four relative-choked festivities, increasingly mortified ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"We got two gold-record singers and they don't sing? So? We got five Oscar-winning actors, and they don't need to act much (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"Bad enough to create one of the most joyless Christmas movies ever, but then to go for an unearned feel-good ending adds insult to injury."	NEG
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"The picture, briskly directed by Seth Gordon from a snappy, many-authored script, is refreshingly tart and lean, forgoing the usual schmaltz and syrup."	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"[An] oddly misanthropic, occasionally amusing but thoroughly cheerless holiday attraction"	NEG
United States	S. Jhoanna Robledo Common Sense Media	"Though 'Four Christmases' is predictable and sort of comes off like a hybrid episode of 'Family Feud' and 'Girls Gone Wild', it's hard to resist Vaughn and Witherspoon's appeal (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Helen O'Hara Empire	"Witherspoon works hard to convince us otherwise, but this is a miscast mess (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"One and a half Christmases is about all that's worth celebrating in Four Christmases. (...) The film has its funny moments, but they are too few to make the holiday excursion worthwhile. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)."	NEU

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