| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
B |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie |
"By the end of Bad Santa, you may no longer believe in Santa Claus, but you certainly will believe in Billy Bob." more... |
B |
Boston Globe
Ty Burr |
"...just the cup of rancid black-comedy eggnog for anyone fed up with holiday cheer in all its manifestations." more... |
B- |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"Bad Santa is a demented, twisted, unreasonably funny work of comic kamikaze style..." more... |
A- |
Chicago Tribune
Mark Caro |
"Bad Santa is the foulest holiday movie I've ever seen - and the funniest." more... |
A- |
| E! Online |
"It's surprisingly witless and one-note, so this is only for the truly demented Grinches out there." more... |
C |
filmcritic.com
Annette Cardwell |
"Bad Santa is not for the faint of heart or liver, nor was it made for them." more... |
B+ |
Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen |
"...wickedly irreverent..." more... |
A- |
New York Post
Lou Lumenick |
"...for all its laughs, the movie...is a mess." more... |
C |
New York Times
Elvis Mitchell |
"...an achingly funny and corrupt dark comedy." more... |
B+ |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"Billy Bob Thornton plays Willie like he was born for the role." more... |
B |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers |
"...(Billy Bob) Thornton and director Terry Zwigoff...deck the halls with comic toxicity." more... |
B |
San Francisco Chronicle
C.W. Nevius |
"Bad Santa is a tasteless, vulgar, savage assault against everything that is good and decent in the Christmas season. I think you are going to like it." more... |
B+ |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold |
"...a one-joke movie that will go to absolutely any length to be vile and offensive in every scene." more... |
D- |
USA Today
Mike Clark |
"...it's such an original that it could eventually become the No. 1 cult movie of 2003." more... |
A- |
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