Almost Christmas
A year after their moms death a disagreeing family decides to spend fives days together to celebrate Christmas but they soon find out it was necessary for them all to heal.
7 October 1970, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
30 January 1954, Detroit, Michigan, USA
29 October 1973, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
16 December 1965, Plymouth, North Carolina, USA
28 May 1944, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
20 July 1973, Brooklyn, New York, USA
24 October 1980, College Park, Georgia, USA
29 February 1992, Maryland, USA
14 September 1965, Marietta, Georgia, USA
12 June 1956, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
December 12, 2016
There is a bit of holiday charm in this film, and a story about family coming together after a big loss, but it is buried in a series of slapstick situations and heavy-handed holiday schmaltz.
November 11, 2016
The committed performances by the cast of talented actors are what elevates Almost Christmas above complaints about its familiarity and melodrama.
November 10, 2016
The epiphanies go down like eggnog, along with the smooth R'n'B and jazz on the soundtrack.
November 29, 2016
Aside from the traditional spaghetti set-up of conflicts that will unfurl and be resolved with good cheer around the turkey, David E Talbert's film has a rather moving backstory about the death of the family matriarch the previous year.
April 12, 2017
Almost Christmas follows a series of predictable twists, that doesn't negate its charm.
November 15, 2016
The movie takes a few calamitous turns at its climax, dangerously approaching broad slapstick and villainizing a character we've come to love. But mainly, it's a fun and boisterous countdown to the big meal.
November 11, 2016
Almost Christmas goes light enough on the cliché and gives the stacked cast - which also includes J.B. Smoove, Gabrielle Union, Omar Epps and Romany Malco - enough decent material that the film remains relatively lively.
December 27, 2016
You can't fault the film for its efficiency. Each of these idylls is threatened by a problem that will be solved within a reasonably tidy running time.
November 24, 2016
Maybe not a Christmas cracker, but it's warming festive fun, nonetheless.
November 10, 2016
On a few, all-too-rare occasions, comedic sparks fly.
November 28, 2016
Okay, we have seen worse Christmas movies.
November 11, 2016
It's as predictable as your aunt's holiday stuffing, but the cast finds some places to open up the material.
