A Bad Moms Christmas
| Release Date: November 1, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 30 Critic Reviews
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Mixed:
19
Negative:
8
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattNov 1, 2017
What follows is another slapstick dose of hard-R ridiculosity with a soft-nougat center, but it also passes the Bechdel test maybe better than any other film this year, and its older generation of stars are too smart not to go to town on their stock roles. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliNov 2, 2017
One of those plot-by-numbers sit-com movies that tries hard (perhaps too hard) to reproduce the elements that made the earlier film successful. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsNov 1, 2017
A movie can be unreasonably formulaic and still be reasonably diverting, and A Bad Moms Christmas is the proof. Read full review
60
VarietyOwen GleibermanNov 1, 2017
The new film, while just okay enough to get by, takes a step back from the audacity of “Bad Moms” to something more cautiously conventional. Read full review
58
The Film StageMurphy KenefickNov 1, 2017
One’s enjoyment all depends on what they are expecting to get out of a studio comedy sequel; if you desire something light, occasionally surprising, and ultimately unchallenging, then A Bad Mom’s Christmas is for you. Read full review
55
IGNAlex WelchNov 2, 2017
The Bad Moms sequel suffers from an uneven script and the addition of too many new, superfluous characters. Read full review
50
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallNov 2, 2017
A Bad Moms Christmas is a comedy with better casting than jokes, a sequel sticking to the formula of using twice as much of whatever worked before. Read full review
50
Arizona RepublicBarbara VanDenburghNov 2, 2017
Despite its familiarity, A Bad Moms Christmas is a touch better than the first bacchanal. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChroniclePeter HartlaubNov 1, 2017
If there’s a casualty in the sequel it’s Bell, who may be the funniest of the young actresses, but has the most limiting character, forced to repeatedly work a single my-mom-is-a-stalker joke. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerNov 1, 2017
The stars work hard, and the movie goes slack. It seems like that old adage is true: Behind every Bad Moms is a couple of dudes without any discipline. Read full review
50
Philadelphia Daily NewsGary ThompsonNov 1, 2017
Fans can best enjoy the movie the way the bad moms make the best of the holiday: lots of alcohol, lots of forgiveness. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Kate TaylorNov 1, 2017
Yes, it's up to the older generation to provide the comedy here, and they do it fairly consistently, with the delicious Christine Baranski carrying most of the movie as Amy's mom. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comChristy LemireNov 1, 2017
A Bad Moms Christmas has the shoddy look and frantic feel of a slapped-together, cash-grab sequel, because that’s exactly what it is. Read full review
50
USA TodayBrian TruittNov 1, 2017
The movie meanders when they're not all together. Hahn, however, singlehandedly keeps the second Bad Moms — as she also did for the first — entertaining with her crass, over-the-top Carla. Read full review
50
Washington PostStephanie MerryNov 1, 2017
A good idea and a stellar cast lost inside a sloppy script that mostly retreads last year’s laughs. Read full review
50
Screen DailyTim GriersonNov 1, 2017
The new film is hardly a comedic lump of coal, but the broad, sitcom-y material has inherent limitations that no amount of shameless, gleeful silliness can overcome. Read full review
42
IndieWireKate ErblandNov 1, 2017
The cheerless, choppy nature of A Bad Moms Christmas keeps each storyline feeling oddly singular, and it’s worse for it. Read full review
40
Total FilmJosh WinningNov 13, 2017
While the film lacks Christina Applegate’s razor-sharp delivery (though she gets a LOL-worthy cameo) and most of the plot doesn’t make sense, the older ladies warrant a Bad Grans spin-off. Read full review
40
EmpireHelen O'HaraNov 13, 2017
It’s by no means good, but there are moments of effective emotion and comedy that make up for some of the dumber jokes, and sheer charisma largely carries it along. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleDanielle WhiteNov 1, 2017
For all its run-of-the-mill dick jokes and slapstick humor, the antics are fairly funny, in that you-know-what-you’re-getting-yourself-into kind of way. Read full review
40
VoxAlissa WilkinsonNov 1, 2017
A Bad Moms Christmas is thin and silly, like an overlong Christmas episode of a sitcom you pair with some reheated lo mein when you can’t figure out what else to do on a stray weeknight. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterJon FroschNov 1, 2017
With brilliant comedians like Hahn and new addition Christine Baranski on board, there are line readings that pop and jokes that land.... But A Bad Moms Christmas is louder, busier and more pandering than the original — an exhausting spectacle of skilled performers gamely mugging their way through a cash grab. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineDerek SmithNov 1, 2017
The pressures of Christmas prove too great to fight off and the need for feel-good holiday cheer inevitably veers the film toward half-hearted, sentimental drama that seems purely obligatory to its seasonal milieu. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreNov 1, 2017
Nothing like celebrating the holidays with a puerile, sentimental and foul-mouthed slapstick farce for kids masquerading as “adult” entertainment. Read full review
38
The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldNov 1, 2017
A deeply uninspired sequel to last year’s surprise (and surprisingly sweet) hit “Bad Moms,” this movie was made in a hurry and it shows. Read full review
38
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperNov 1, 2017
It’s sloppy to the point of distraction — not that the forced hijinks and ridiculous storylines are actually worthy of our attention. Read full review
35
TheWrapRobert AbeleNov 1, 2017
If you’re going to see a comedy that isn’t all that funny, you could do a lot worse than the slapdash all-ladies feel-good of A Bad Moms Christmas. Read full review
30
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisNov 2, 2017
Add the magnificent Christine Baranski to the mix and A Bad Moms Christmas, while still a slog of base sight gags and lazy profanity, becomes marginally more bearable. Only marginally, given that this pitiful follow-up to last year’s “Bad Moms” is even less able to distinguish between crass and comedic. Read full review
30
New York Magazine (Vulture)Emily YoshidaNov 1, 2017
A Bad Moms Christmas is a film about women trapped in a bleakly infantilizing suburban hellscape with horrible lighting, whose only idea about how to subvert their situation is to scream and push people and hit each other in the crotch. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshNov 1, 2017
What's offensive about A Bad Moms Christmas (and “Bad Moms”) is just how shoddily made it is. Read full review
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