Rotten
One of those unpleasant fiascoes meant to lodge a lump in the throat at Christmas, but it only ends up making you want to bludgeon the elves with their own toy-shop hammers.
Rex Reed, New York Observer
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Noel
Overview
With Christmas Eve just around the corner in bustling New York, five lonely and sad strangers find their lives inadvertently intersected.
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29%
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Rotten
The nut-ball factor is just too high for these characters.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Rotten
The kind of sappy, sadness-turns- to-gladness holiday movie that shows up on cable TV this time of year.
Bob Longino, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Rotten
The mawkishness meter is turned up full blast by the time Williams, wearing the hangdog expression he saves for maudlin dramas, shows up out of nowhere as a former priest to save an unhappy Sarandon from jumping into the East River.
Robert Dominguez, New York Daily News
Rotten
Except for die-hard students of extremely bad movies, Noel isn't worth seeing.
Lou Lumenick, New York Post
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