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5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70VarietyEddie CockrellVarietyEddie CockrellThe film is an energetic, candy-colored romp through genre tropes that manages to take its subject matter seriously while poking fun at itself at the same time.
- 60CineVueMartyn ConterioCineVueMartyn ConterioAnderson's comic slasher doesn't quite earn its wings as a potential future classic, nevertheless it's very funny and another welcome indicator that antipodean genre cinema is where it's at right now.
- 60Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayLos Angeles TimesNoel MurrayMostly, it’s a tightly constructed, unapologetically nasty little thriller, given depth and weight by Wallace’s interpretation of a sweet woman suffering for her past.
- 42IndieWireMichael NordineIndieWireMichael NordineRed Christmas rarely deals in gore for gore’s sake in its early going. By the end, however, it becomes such an exercise in sensibility-testing brutality that any message about the fragility of the family unit is as murky as the cinematography.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeSelf-consciously button-pushing pictures like this one usually leaven their transgressions with at least a bit of winking irony, but no humor is to be found here, from the opening frames (slo-mo shots of pro-life and pro-choice factions shouting at each other) to the last.