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Reviewed EFC :

"Christmas with the Kranks" is about a family who decides to forgo all yuletide festivities one year. Well, you'd skip Christmas, too, if all you had to watch were "Surviving Christmas," "The Polar Express" and "Christmas with the Kranks." Movies like this make me want to skip everything, including the remainder of my natural life. more..

by Cynthia Fuchs :

Tim Allen needs to stop making Christmas movies. Though it appeared that the Santa Clause franchise had run its course, and even that the worst of this year's seasonal movie dregs were already over (with Ben Affleck's Surviving Christmas mercifully, almost immediately disappeared), Allen has come charging into the fray with the frenetic, ugly, and utterly depressing Christmas with the Kranks. More..

Reviewed by A.V. Club :

For fans of taste and restraint, Christmas grows a little more dreadful each year. Disappointed with Thanksgiving's inability to adequately move product, retailers have eliminated any downtime between Halloween and the holiday season. Escaping to the movies hardly helps when each year adds to the ever-multiplying mass of seasonal fare trumpeting the same nebulous, tastefully secular, usually pratfall-inducing cosmic force called the Christmas Spirit. It makes it that much easier to appreciate the occasional blast of acid like last year's Bad Santa, and all the harder not to pelt the screen with rotten fruit when confronted with a film like Christmas With The Kranks. more..