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- 65Film.comLaremy LegelFilm.comLaremy LegelOne terrible sub-plot away from being a legitimately good movie.
- 42The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyThe A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyBy the standards of Tyler Perry’s Madea series, A Madea Christmas is better than average.
- 40New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNew York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierComedy characters change and grow. Sometimes, as we see in Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas, they become so much like old relatives that their edge is gone.
- 40The New York TimesNicolas RapoldThe New York TimesNicolas RapoldWith a character who can essentially say and do whatever she wants, you might expect a bit more.
- 30VarietyAndrew BarkerVarietyAndrew BarkerAn exceptionally poor piece of holiday cash-in product, rushed and ungainly even by the low standard set by Perry's seven previous Madea films, yet it should be every bit as profitable.
- 25McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMcClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreA lump of cinematic coal Perry’s shoving into America’s stockings this holiday season.
- 25Washington PostSean O’ConnellWashington PostSean O’ConnellAn insensitive, unfunny cringer from the entrepreneurial writer-director that should have come with a gift receipt.
- 20The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe clunky narrative doesn’t ring true for a second, and the hackneyed dialogue is even worse.
- 10New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriNew York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriI don’t know, maybe it worked as theater. Onscreen, it’s torture.
- 0The DissolveNathan RabinThe DissolveNathan RabinA Madea Christmas belongs to a rancid strain of Yuletide trifles that feature awful people being terrible to each other for 90 minutes under the sway of insulting plot contrivances before the awfulness is climactically washed away in an avalanche of holiday sentimentality.