‘Mon oncle Antoine’ saves the sentimentality for drunks and clergymen
Claude Jutra strips Christmas nostalgia of its rose-colored glasses
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‘Fred Claus’ uses Christmas to unleash its grinch’s inner child
Sometimes that means sticking a superhero cape on Kevin Spacey, and sometimes it means some pretty horrendous computer animation
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Despite the weather, ‘Christmas in July’ uncorks a bottle of year-end optimism
If not overtly concerned with Christmas, Preston Sturges serves up a brimming sense of hope and opportunity that comes at the end of each and every year
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In ‘The Ice Harvest,’ any place is better than home for the holidays
The Harold Ramis film is at its best when it’s raining on its own parade and at its worst whenever things drift back to the embezzlement at hand
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