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Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Forget spiked fruitcake: This is bad taste with a real kick. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: For those who don't mind a little bile in their eggnog, it's the perfect antidote to all that prefab Christmas cheer. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: I laughed at loud at a lot of the stuff. Read more
Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune: The foulest holiday movie I've ever seen -- and the funniest. Read more
Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times: This is a superb stink bomb of an entertainment, generously larded with jokes about alcoholics, short people, dim children and the kind of sexual congress that until recently was illegal in nine states. Read more
Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel: The cast is resourceful enough to keep the film at least watchable throughout. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: There simply aren't enough laughs in this Christmas comedy -- it's more like a stocking stuffed with lumps of coal. Read more
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: Best of all, it plugs into -- and electrifies -- the mostly unacknowledged grimness that lies just beneath our holiday cheer. Read more
Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: Takes all the Christmas season's bad vibes and converts them into an achingly funny and corrupt dark comedy. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: For all its laughs, the movie ... is a mess. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: The funniest send-up of bad Christmas karma I have ever seen. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: Even when the film threatens to turn feel-good, it thankfully resists the urge. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Zwigoff and company wring some laughs out of it, though the tone is uniformly mean and vulgar. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: I wanted to believe in Bad Santa. At least half of the time I did. Read more
Mary Brennan, Seattle Times: A profane, wildly politically incorrect and sometimes shockingly funny holiday comedy. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: By the end of Bad Santa, you may no longer believe in Santa Claus, but you certainly will believe in Billy Bob. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: Much like School Of Rock, Bad Santa salvages a tired, paint-by-numbers formula by resisting it every step of the way, stubbornly refusing to stop its juvenile fun until the last possible moment. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Mac and Graham have little to do, sadly, but this may be the bravest acting Thornton has ever done, so complete is his refusal to play to our sympathies. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: Like The Ref, the best previous film in this vein, Bad Santa redeems itself with rounds of riotous outrageousness. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: There are laughs along the way. But too many of them are the sort that send you out into the cold worrying for your own humanity. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Terry Zwigoff's comedy isn't up to much besides pretending that swearwords and snotty insults are -- big joke! -- incorrect. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: If you think you can shake your head and mutter, 'That's just wrong,' as you laugh your lungs out, or if you're sick of artificial yuletide treacle, then step right up for a bit of holiday distemper. Read more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: Gets stuck in a rut. Read more
David Ansen, Newsweek: An antidote to forced holiday cheer, this scabrously funny misanthropic comedy is not for the whole family. Read more
Michael Agger, New Yorker: Once the rude shock of a profane Claus wears off, there's not really much to do except await the next outrageous remark. Read more
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: Bad Santa is my kind of Christmas movie -- profane, subversive, and swarming with scuzzballs. Read more
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: You'll find yourself warming to Bad Santa in spite of its blemishes, simply because it's different than any holiday tale that's come before, or is likely to assail multiplexes again. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: Thornton and Cox are wickedly funny, and Bernie Mac has some good moments as the cynical mall detective on their trail. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: If you appreciate movies that don't compromise on their comedic journey into the heart of darkness, this is for you. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: I didn't like this movie merely because it was weird and different; I liked it because it makes no compromises and takes no prisoners. And because it is funny. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: It could become a Christmas perennial for Scrooges of all ages. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: I found the escalating disreputability of Bad Santa completely cathartic. Read more
C.W. Nevius, San Francisco Chronicle: A tasteless, vulgar, savage assault against everything that is good and decent in the Christmas season. I think you are going to like it. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: A must-see movie for the Scrooges of the world. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: What's meant to be a live-action South Park just winds up in a scatological dead end. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: It rides a one-trick reindeer that tires well before the second reel, and it mistakes crudity and cruelty for humour. Read more
Geoff Andrew, Time Out: Wonderfully tasteless, gloriously non-PC, admirably bilious; humourless souls should steer clear. Read more
Mike Clark, USA Today: It's such an original that it could eventually become the No. 1 cult movie of 2003. Read more
Dennis Harvey, Variety: First-rate talent and a uniquely dyspeptic mood separate this effort from more routine, populist stabs at tasteless yukkage. Read more
Dennis Lim, Village Voice: As toilet-mouthed, puke-encrusted, and liver-damaged as it may be, the movie's a traditional Scrooge story at heart. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: The movie is -- how can I say this? -- funny as hell. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Thornton, with his one-of-a-kind drawl, his lazy gaze, restless shaggy eyebrows and misanthropic attitude, seems to be the movie's essential X-factor. Read more