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25 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 86IGNIGNBlended brilliantly, this remake of Black Christmas makes for holiday horror that's a tantalizing and terrifying treat.
- 70VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanYou can’t take a movie like this too seriously, but it’s still one of the rare slasher films that offers a holiday from bloodshed for its own sake.
- 70Los Angeles TimesKimber MyersLos Angeles TimesKimber MyersBlack Christmas is a fun film that gets its kicks out of literally smashing the patriarchy.
- 60The New York TimesBen KenigsbergThe New York TimesBen KenigsbergIf the 2019 Black Christmas is not nearly as chilling as the original, it is genuinely barbed as gender satire, and it cleverly pre-empts obvious outrage.
- 55TheWrapElizabeth WeitzmanTheWrapElizabeth WeitzmanAs a mainstream slasher remake, Black Christmas is bound to be judged a letdown. But Takal’s aims are more subversive. And thanks to her, there’s now a bonkers deconstruction of a mainstream slasher remake hiding in plain sight.
- 40Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfSophia Takal's update of the cult classic turns the real horror of campus assault into a springboard for cheap thrills.
- 38Slant MagazineDerek SmithSlant MagazineDerek SmithThe filmmakers’ overly simplistic depiction of good and evil is mitigated to some degree by the presence of Landon (Caleb Eberhardt).
- 30The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeInitially a sluggish stalker flick whose undergraduate moral debates are tiresome instead of provocative, it eventually transforms into a patriarchy metaphor as obvious as, well, all those Greek-lettered paddles that decorate both the frat's and the sorority's clubhouses.
- 30We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoWe Got This CoveredMatt DonatoBlack Christmas deserves to be a better slasher satire propelled by empowerment than the messy, tonally obstructed holiday dud we're gifted.
- 20The GuardianBenjamin LeeThe GuardianBenjamin LeeIt’s an unwieldy and messy thing, drearily directed and boringly written, taking its agenda seriously yet not providing a robust enough framework to surround it.